Aquarium Fish Dropsy. As the name bloating describes which means swelling the most prominent symptom of dropsy is swelling of in the abdominal regions or belly. As we have mentioned previously dropsy is caused by bacterial infection.
Fish are only susceptible when their immune system has been compromised by some other stress factor. A disease of immune compromised fish. This is the swelling of some soft tissues in a fishs body cavity.
The belly on an infected fish will drop down thus the name of the disease.
Learn how to treat a. Also some of the treatment conditions needed for the fish with dropsy are not good for the healthy fish. A fish showing signs of dropsy may be suffering from underlying problems that need to be separately addressed in order to solve the problem. This happens more often because of the accumulation of fluids or water within the affected body region.
