|| (I wrote the original message about the non pooping oscar)
|| Well,
|| I took everyones advice, and treated for dropsy/bloat. No
|| improvement.. plus this has been going on for a year and it sounds
|| like those diseases end in death before this much time goes by.
|| so, a couple of days ago I took my oscar to the vet. The vet
|| squezed the fat buldge under his tummy and said he's got a blockage.
|| He tried to put a tube up his but and discovered that there was no
|| opening. He cut open my poor fishes gut, and out came almost 1/3
|| cup poop and snail shells and all kinds of grose stuff. He sprayed
|| his gut out w/ saline solution and stitched him up.
|| Now its two days later and he looks like he is going to survive the
|| surgery. Now my FAT oscar has instantly become a skinny oscar. I
|| hope he starts eating again soon.
||
|| Ive got to take him back in a few weeks to find out why his bum hole
|| doesn't work. The vet said either the swelling from inside is the
|| reason he couldn't put a tube in it, or that he had a birth defect
|| that just never opened up the hole. The vet also said it is
|| completely possible that he lived his whole life this way and really
|| did throw up to cycle the food out of his body. its aparently a
|| fairly straight shot from mouth to butthole in a fish, so they can
|| get out bones and other stuff they eat. Once he started eating the
|| small snails in my tank the shells were too heavy for him to expell,
|| and they built up in his gut.
||
|| If youve got a fish that you care about, dont be embarrased to take
|| him to the vet.. sure everyone I know and the receptionist at the
|| vet all made fun of me, but at least my pet will be better. The vet
|| took one look at him and said its not dropsy, and knew exactly what
|| was wrong! This same vet grafted snake skin on my injured
|| chameleon a few years ago... and that worked too!!!! amasing.

Wow... amazing story... glad all is well....and I wish there were more vets
like yours... thats just great...

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