Bent Out Of Shape

[boyuboy]

I have a male molly and his body is curved with his tail pointing to one side. He seems healthy eats chases and courts the other female. is this normal? will it sort itself out? ive been told to give regular doses of salt and it will clear almost any molly ailment, is this true? will he 'outgrow" this?

 

[archamfr]

most likely a spinal deformity. normally caused by a bad birth/ harsh handling when young.
probably will not outgrow it, unfortunately.

 

[lilfishie]

any chance of a pic? i don't quite understand how its body has curved

 

[archamfr]

i have a home grown guppy with a sorta humpback due to a spinal deformity, when it was a fry u could see its actual spine bent

 

[lilfishie]

i have a female like that, although she has a happy life i had my doubts when she was young, she must be closing in on 2 years old now

 

[boyuboy]

the fish developed this deformity while in the tank, he was fine when i got him. His tail is just to one side and his body is curved. it is a silver white molly. i will try to post a pick later. he seems healthy and active just this curve has me worried.

 

[boyuboy]

the more i look at it now it looks like his tail is forced to the side because of his godocyte ( male reproductive organ thing). it looks like its up against the side of his body.

 

[stargirly1208]

your fish could have TB, which causes the bending of the spinal cord. this happened to my boyfriend's fish and he died soon after that. check out fish diseases in the pinned articles

 

[boyuboy]

here are the pics
1st shows the Gonopodium to the other side of fish.
2nd shows how it is right up against the side of his body
3rd same but closer


the last pick just shows the Gonopodium right up against his body

 

[lilfishie]

woah that is some fancy finage, maybe took a lot of interbreeding to get him like that making him weaker, as stargirly said it could be TB, which isn't good maybe ask in the emergency section

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Can you get a pic viewing the top of the fish from above at all? That would help a lot in indentifying if the fish has tb or not at all.

 

[WILDER]

Bent spines, born that way, fish tb, to internal parasites.

 

[boyuboy]

finally got some pics of the spine curve.
got him in a net an took some.
some of the pics may exagerrate the curvature due to being in the small net.

last shot

 

[boyuboy]

he is still living fine. swimming feeding an his body seems not so curved anymore.

still hanging on!

 

[Neo8223]

million dollar question is: when you got him, did he have a bent spine? That way we can at least eliminate a few possibilities from Wilders infallable list