Dropsy

[Theplayboy]

One of my bettas defiantly has dropsy, he has a bloated stomach and slight pinecone effect to his scales.

I know in most cases this is deadly, but what can i do to ease his suffering and fingers crossed cure him.

 

[theshadowinc]

One of my bettas defiantly has dropsy, he has a bloated stomach and slight pinecone effect to his scales.

I know in most cases this is deadly, but what can i do to ease his suffering and fingers crossed cure him.

Has to be treated with a med(Dont let people tell you its not treatable although there is a stage where it gets to and there is no turning back)

Dropsy is caused from a bacterial infection of the kidneys, causing fluid accumulation or renal failure. The fluids in the body build up and cause the fish to bloat up and the scales to protrude. It appears to only cause trouble in weakened fish and possibly from unkempt aquarium conditions.
An effective treatment is to add an antibiotic to the food. With flake food, use about 1% of antibiotic and carefully mix it in. If you keep the fish hungry they should eagerly eat the mixture before the antibiotic dissipates. Antibiotics usually come in 250 mg capsules. If added to 25 grams of flake food, one capsule should be enough to treat dozens of fish. A good antibiotic is chloromycetin (chloramphenicol). Or use tetracycline. If you feed your fish frozen foods or chopped foods, try to use the same ratio with mixing. As a last resort add at most 10 mg per liter of water. Also, if unkempt conditions are the suspected cause, correct it.

GL

 

[Theplayboy]

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm a little confused though. Firstly where would i get the antibiotics and secondly is it a powder form that i would mix in with the flakes.

He usually eats pellets but im sure the greedy little boy would make short work of flakes.

 

[phil140701]

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm a little confused though. Firstly where would i get the antibiotics and secondly is it a powder form that i would mix in with the flakes.

He usually eats pellets but im sure the greedy little boy would make short work of flakes.

one treatment that works is octozin it comes in tablet form , i had dropsy in my cold tank a while ago and this was quite an effective treatment, well worth considering OCTOZIN TABLETS i believe it's also available in solution form too

 

[Theplayboy]

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm a little confused though. Firstly where would i get the antibiotics and secondly is it a powder form that i would mix in with the flakes.

He usually eats pellets but im sure the greedy little boy would make short work of flakes.

one treatment that works is octozin it comes in tablet form , i had dropsy in my cold tank a while ago and this was quite an effective treatment, well worth considering OCTOZIN TABLETS i believe it's also available in solution form too

Thanks will try to find some tomorrow.

 

[Haych]

oh i hope he comes through this, fingers crossed for you

 

[Theplayboy]

Thanks Haych.

My other boy is having a week long sulk as well. I feel a bit diminished about my bettas at the moment.

 

[Haych]

i've heard its a nasty one to have.

also epsom salt bath eases the fish' pain, so try that too

 

[Theplayboy]

Thanks ill try that as well. Do you know if the two treatments would be ok to do together?

 

[theshadowinc]

At your local fish store it will say on the box if it will treat dropsy as far as medication goes I am not ontop of things in that area, what I might recommend wouldn't be what others would or would not recommend....(Most the medications I recommend really arn't for begginers as in Peracide B or A, a negative Ion of some sort etc sometimes some can be found in the marine section at your lfs) main thing is stick to one med when treating it and keep clean water, even daily water changes if you need to with a water conditioner to help the fish with the stress.
Something that is eaither solution or powder would be best as you could mix this with food, an anti biotic will say on the box this Nitrofurazone, you have to remember when treating dropsy that it is NOT a disease but a sign of another disease that caused dropsy! Problem with dropsy is it can kill fish before you even attempt to treat it and it really is a hard one for scientists. When treating it you have to keep in mind that you not only should be treating the water its in but also treat the fish insides. I found a site with good information on this maybe it be advise you read it to understand how it actually works

http/www.nippyfish.net/dropsy.html

Where salt baths is recommended by members, in later stages its best to stay away from salt, the kidney on the way it works with the dropsy will absorb the salt but make it worse for the fish so the signs become stronger. Salt is a no no when treating dropsy in later stages in beggining stages not sure I have always herd people who have used salt baths with success and also with painful outcomes because dropsy is not a specific disease and the name dropsy speaks for many specimens you are not actually sure what you are up against

Dropsy I think is best suited to say its like cancer in humans, cancer spreads especially when not treated and leads to death and not all treatments work... same goes with dropsy

Edit
negative, what i meant by that was gram negative spectrum and a gram postitive sorry just reread the my post

 

[Theplayboy]

Ok i think i understand it a bit better now. I will be taking a trip to the LFS tomorrow armed with all this information and see what they have. Ill keep you updated with how it goes.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[Haych]

good luck