Does this fish look deathly ill?
Well, he is and he would bloat to death and experience kidney failure without immediate antibiotic treatment. He's got dropsy, a condition where fluid fills the fish's body cavity until he puffs up and his scales stick out like pine cones.
Just yesterday we arrived home to find him like this and went on the web to see what it was. Some forum posts said it isn't treatable. But thankfully there seems to be some new antibiotics out and fish do recover from this infection.
My pictures aren't the best but if you go here you can see classic dropsy symptoms.
It's been a tough time for all of us... Going to the pet store, buying the medication, reading directions, and so on. But we can now hope he's going to make a full recovery.
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