Re: [Killietalk] Help! SJOs with dropsy?

["Markus&Heather Brown" <TheBiologist at charter_net>]

    A continuous feeding of Highly fatty foods such as beef heart, worms so
on, supports the notion that its not dropsy, but some sort of kidney
infection, or irregularity. Just a thought.
Markus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RuevenM at aol_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Help! SJOs with dropsy?


> Hi Ronnie,
>
>      I have never seen a fish recover from dropsy but today's drugs may
work.
> I have found from over 35 years of experience that all Fundulopanchax are
> prone to developing dropsy and the usual cause is overfeeding with
tubifex, beef
> heart, bloodworms or black worms. These fish along with Callopanchax are
prone
> to becoming fat and are usually real food pigs. Fat fish seem to develop
> dropsy for some reason. It's a balance to feed them enough rich food to
get lots
> of fertile eggs while not making them fat. Chopping all worms is a good
start
> as chopped ones are MUCH easier to digest. Only feeding rich foods like
worms
> for pre-spawning conditioning is a good move while using daphnia, brine
shrimp,
> flakes, mosquito larvae and fruit flies for a regular day to day diet. I
feed
> the rich foods for a week or 2 before I set up the breeders in a spawning
> tank and then I only feed the rich foods maybe 3-4 times in that
conditioning
> period and I feed only enough so the bellies round a little bit. I hope
this
> helps.
>
> Bobby
>
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