Pearlscale with Dropsy disease

[peaceroxxlol1818]

That's terrible... poor fish...

[FreeTheSticks]

It's really scary when you see the scales sticking out, glad to hear your goldfish survived.

[jessicarabbit201]

Eu preciso estourar esse peixe ou apertar na mão ate estourar

[mrmoenator2]

what is dorpsy?

[pillowtyme]

is it bad to feed the fish sinking pellets?? my fish was fed sinking pellets and it now has dropsy... D:

[girlybags888]

Floating food doesn't cause swim bladder disorders, this is a myth. High protein diets can cause this but fancy goldfish are capable of expelling any air they take in while feeding. Fancy goldfish are not tropical fish though and so should not really be housed with parrot fish

[cannonrayj]

to schen2000: feeding fancy goldfish floating food, can eventually cause swim-bladder disorders. Dropsy is actually acute kidney failure due to many factors and you should treat dropsy with epsom salt, don't quote me on this but I think the recipe is 1/8 teaspoon per gallon, but do not use more or it may kill your fish, and this recipe is only for use with salt tolerant fish like goldfish

[LilCows1]

i had one of those fish i was so sad when it died

[zack95305]

fat ass fish

[schchen2000]

What caused the dropsy disease? Does it have to do with feeding fish floating food instead of sinking food? Thanks.

[BeautyBabee98]

whats dropsy disease?

[DeadlyTeaParty]

hard to believe they are pearlscales :O

I always think of them of as small things XD

[Maciek271xD]

you are a beast! this fish can not swim!

[LuckyxTurtle]

what's it been eating? fruity pebbles?

[akklove1]

@LuckyxTurtle lmfao

[MrMegasaurass]

is this contagious??

[DRU623]

t r u keeping parrot fish with gold fish u dick parrot fih r tropical durrrrrr

[iann8009]

you need to get antibioutics

[coolguy1843]

dropsy wuts that 

[manice08]

my fish was 14 when it died from this

[Eevee2Espeonsfan]

what IS dropsy?

[MrRawrllyX]

There the most cutest chubbyest fishies I have ever seen! xx

[BritishDarthVader4]

That was a blood parrot cichlid at the beginning!!

[BakBro1945]

My fish died from his fins getting ripped off, Rip nemo, all drains lead to the ocean! What do you think he died of? his fins were getting ripped so bad he couldn't swim to the top to get food, and it was my first fishuneral, I must say he was a carnival fish though, so I don't think he would've lasted very long anyway... so which was it? A disease? or just being a carnival fish?

[SuperMac18ROX33]

Doesn't seem like it... Some fish are just fat. o.O

[stevenJEDI3]

get him out of your tank or he will kill some other fish

[laceycoke]

@stevenJEDI3 why?

[silentsniper321]

a fluffy fish lol

[Cheevus]

they usally die from this :/

[lollypop6655]

its that its pregnant trust me if u look at a pregnant goldfish u will c what i mean

[Mutnut333]

Did she make it?

I know dropsy makes other fish look like pearscale goldfish.......never seen a pearscale suffering from it.

Pearscales are my favorite....I like red cap orandas as well. I used to work for a tropical fish wholesaler as a teen......loved that job :)

[jlrsmiles]

thats a fat goldfish. what type of goldfish is it?

[Crowntailluvr]

Tooworn was right but put 1 teaspoon of clove oil in the bag every 10 minutes so it falls asleep. When it's asleep it's breathing will dramatically lessen.

There is no cure for dropsy I believe, do you may want to euthanize him. Beautiful pearlscale..

[manFORsuck]

is an albino angelfish man

[ProEmoGurl]

What kind of angel fish was that? Ive never seen them so thick

[4umeandher]

that wasnt an angel fish it was a red parrot fish a type of ciclid

[ProEmoGurl]

@4umeandher Aren't red parrot fish red? The fish at :37 isn't a parrot fish.

[4k3el]

most of my guppies suffer frm it. none of my other fish do. it make me feel sick wen i see  them have it i dnt even wana touch them YUK

[ultimatesimpsonsfan]

i read in a book, a humane was is to net the poor fellow, put him in a damp cloth, and freeze him in the freezer.

pearlscales look so cute, are they always that fat?if so, i would love to care for one

[Treemeadow]

I wouldn't think so- how stressfull! And the fact that he can't breathe. Its still suffocating, and suffocation is the WORST way to die (perhaps next to burning).

I'd just scoop and promptly bash it over the head. Its quicker, no suffocation.

[SmokeAndStrongDrink]

your a fucking idiot who says suffocating is the worst way to die. as a person i have almost suffocated to death (passed out is the worst it can get)and i can think of a million different ways that would be worst. fuck yourself. idiot fish rapist.

[Treemeadow]

Go back to your bridge, troll.

[manice08]

my fish has this. but he is so old (around 11 years old!!)

i just want him to pass on but i dont want to kill him

sadly there is no way to put down a fish like an old pet cat or dog

[kndl1919]

Look it up, even on here. There are some ways that seem humane. The clove oil method is what I plan to use when the time comes. The directions need to be followed carefully or it will suffer. Most people use Vodka after the fish is asleep from clove oil, but I've heard of just carefully adding the oil until the gills don't move. This is trickier with bettas since they don't just use there gills but also the top of their head. I've heard they thrash, and I don't want to see that, I own bettas.

[pinkseamonster]

My dwarf gourami died of dropsy yesterday. I didn't have anything to put him to sleep with though, so I had to just let him suffer. They breathe the same as siamese fighters and as soon as his gills stopped working he was up at the top, thrashing, breathing the air :( I only wish I had treated him for bacterial infection three days before and he might have survived. If you catch fish in the first stages of dropsy sometimes you can save them.

[tooworn]

The best was to euthanize a fish is to put it in a bag with tank water then put the bag in the freezer.

[manice08]

my fish died a few months ago now, he died a few hours after i posted that comment

[Treemeadow]

That sounds good, the fish will falls asleep due to the extremely low temperature.

[tooworn]

I had to do this.

[IWIpartyhatIWI]

hey did your fish with dropsy ever recovered? because i wonder if mine will survive

[IMCL85]

wtf parrot with gold fish????? lol

[aklass]

goodfish have a better chance at survivng dropsy. My bettas has it and looks as if shes about to die

[19pirategirls97]

my fish just died. :( he lost his color and half of one of his eyes is blue. the other is brown. i don't know what happened. :,( and the past couple weeks he didn't eat so i don't know why. does anyone know?

[TheBadass1000]

HAHA

[LAbrown96]

I hope he gets better cause my fish just died from it and its really hard to lose a loved pet.

[Lovely2670]

Our pearlscales now have recovered. We are feeding them floating pellets now instead of the sinking stuffs.

[goneinmymind]

@LAbrown96 not to sound like an ass but a fish not really my idea of a loved family pet,every one is entitledto there own opinion but i could c if the fish was really cute and did funny and cool stuff...but they just swim and thats it

[OutsideTheVoid]

@goneinmymind goldfish are actually highly intelligent creatures, and can be conditioned or even trained by their owners. there are actual kits out there you can buy to teach your fish some cool tricks!

[EveryonesQT]

mine is loosing scales in patches! almost like fish mange. And idia what that could be?

[Lovely2670]

Our pearlscales have lost some of the scales but they grew back as normal.

[marekiller8]

@Lovely2670 Is she still alive?

[ilovetheetangs]

@EveryonesQT probably fin and tail rot, or fighting

[EveryonesQT]

@ilovetheetangs na, I found out back then my parrot fish was picking on him. Back in the day before I knew ciclids and goldfish should not be tanked together :P

[TheFishyDoctor]

If conditions of the water may have deteriorated prior to this, it could well have contributed to what is definetly dropsy. If this problem is still persisting or in any other fish you have, add an antibiotic to the fish's food. If you use flake food, mix in about 1% of antibiotic. A good tip is to keep the fish hungry & they'll eat the mixture before the antibiotic dissipates. Antibiotics usually come in 250 mg capsules. Recommended antibiotics are chloromycetin or tracycline. Good Luck.

[paradoxgreatcreation]

@TheFishyDoctor one of my pearl scale also has this disease. I will try chloromycetin or tracycline, thx

[Lovely2670]

Ours is recovering somehow ( hopefully ) since we did a water change then I feed them green peas ( cut into small bits ) everyday. We feed them flakes and sinking pellets as well.

[CarySprite]

I ust found out today that our fish has dropsy. Poor fishies. I read on goldfishfacts that it's always going to have the internal infection, even if the dropsy goes away so it may relapse. I dunno what to do about Morris either!

[ColorMeVicious]

omg thats sooo sad! i hope it gets better!