wonky blue eye

Jewels · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: wonky blue eye

i have a female pacific blue eye that is swollen up and having difficulty swimming. head up and labouring a bit. at first i thought it might just be eggs but i have had 3 females for about 12 months and not seen this before. what could it be? can i do anything?

clunkster · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

can you post any pictures ? it could be pop eye or it could be something else but without pictures it is hard to tell
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Kana3 · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:12 am Post subject:

I read that as the body is swollen. Possibly upper abdominal, if the head is facing upward.

Clunkster is correct, it's so damn easy to pick the problem from a picture. I'm not actually familiar with that fish.

* Are we talking whole body swelling, or just a bump?

* Are the scales protruding, or standing up?

* Is the fish having difficulty maintaining it's position? eg, is it 'floating' upward toward the surface?

* How's it's appetite?

But here's some likely culprits: Dropsy, Tumour, Swim Bladder disorder, Worms.

Does it resemble this ? I suspect this was a bloated stomach (gas).

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Jewels · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:02 am Post subject:

sorry, computers been out of action.
it seems a bit more rounded than that and certainly not inflamed like the above. it does have some white spots on its side now. im wondering if its worms or a tumour breaking through. am trying to get pictures.

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Jewels · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:48 am Post subject:

i have some pictures now. can you tell me how to post them please? i cant make the Img button work.[/img]

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Kana3 · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject:

There's some instructions here for posting & displaying images,

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And the 'quicky version,

Place your image URL (http...etc) between the [img] and [/img] tags. No spaces.

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Jewels · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

sorry about pics, not that good at computers and couldnt work out how to post. my forktail died yesterday. i read with interest the euthanasia stuff cause im sure she would have had pain with such abdominal swelling. i really struggle with this as i cannot cause anymore pain and suffering myself and am practically buddist when it comes to killing anything!!

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clunkster · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear about your forktail Crying or Very sad

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