Huge shubunkin

[GinoLicious]

Your pond is so clear and you can see your fish so nicely on a side note.

 

[rebelangel_3733]

well I put her in the new pond for a week alone and she's still just as fat as ever poor thing...but she comes up to eat still then just sinks to the bottom and hangs out. I put a few fish in with her to keep her company that were at my daughters (they got to big for the 70 gal tank she had them in)

 

[Tula]

Well, honestly I thought your post might be to say, she'd passed away. I don't know what to make of her situation. I'm glad she's got some pond buddies.

 

[Usman]

Doesnot look like eggs, it would onky swell lower belly if it was , my shubunkin spawned few times , more like somekind of deformity

 

[Dave 54]

This shubunkin definately has dropsy is not normally infective to other fish so you dont have to Quarentine your shubunkin .
Dropsy can be just down to fluid retention in the body, there is a parasitce that can attack your fishes kidneys eventualy leading to kidneys becoming enlarged and eventually leading to kidney failure the there is a bacterial infection which will cause organ failure lastly there is a viral infection which dropsy can be induced by.
Once dropsy has been identified then the first treatment for dropsy should be to salt the pond which should be applied at 5 or 6 kg per 1,000 litres of pond water [11to 13ib to 220 gallons Imperial] work out the US gallonage as I dont work with it and dont want to make a mistake .
This should be for a period of 3 to 5 days , the water temperature should be slowly raised to over 25c [77f] in some cases even as high as 39c [86f].
To the salt treatment it is advisable to add a good anti bacterial that is safe to use alongside salt i;e Acriflavine is my prefared anti bacterial here making sure you follow the directions to the medication of which ever anti bacterial you choose is completed couse wise .
Sadly dropsy cannot be cured all the time and in the fish cure it almost always make a reapperance a year or so later and the fish die.
So ask yourself is it worth the stuggle of the first cure only to loose it the second time around, a sad choice to make I know but this is down to you .

Dave

 

[Dave 54]

You wont lose anything by injecting her with a broad spectrum antibiotic for 3-5 days.

Unless the person is trained in injection the fish internally [which I doubt] , then I suggest that this is a no no @Faebinder, as it would be far more productive and less dangerous to the life of the fish to add it to the ponds water .

Dave