Bloated Female Pearl Gourami filled with fluid

[maz53]

My female pearl gourami had been bloated for several weeks, eventually she looked like a bobbing balloon.
I tried all the advice I read about on the forums and further internet searching, but noting helped.
Unfortunately she died ...
I decided to have a look inside her balloon belly, to see what was causing the bloat.
it was just filled with fluid, no parasite, or eggs, no poop or constipation ....just a lot of fluid seeped out.

does anyone know what that means?

 

[Colin_T]

dropsy, an internal bacterial infection that just about always kills the fish.