Rasbora won't eat - has some anomaly, please help, photo included!

[Turin Turambar]

I just don't know what happend to her! I have this fish for about two years and she was totally normal. But now, her mouth just cannot close! Overall she looks healthy... but she cannot eat.

Please see the picture that has 3 separate photos taken from the same (sick) fish.

So, when I feed the fish, she looks like she wants to eat, goes to the surface, but then goes in the middle again, looking sad. Poor ol' fish. :(

[Leopardess]

Wow, that is very odd. It is like that all of the time? Perhaps it somehow injured itself and broke its jaw and it is healing or has healed so that it doesn't shut? Or there is a tumor preventing it from closing?

Obviously, this has some serious effects if she can't eat at all...that's a very slow way to go:( I hope something happens and its able to close its mouth.

[baileya74]

That's doesn't look good. That a real slow death.
What is a quick and painless way for a fish????

[SnakeIce]

if the fish was larger i might suggest getting some drawing of fish jaw bone structure to help you understand how to articulate the jaw and how you might put the jaw back in its socket

but that is a little far fetched on a fish so small

[Hans]

that happened to some ladys goldfish that called me onetime, i told her all she can do is feed it wet food like yogurt and salsa

[missymoo]

how attached are you to this fish ?????
you might want to get around the idea of having to force feed the little thing or you may (if he isn't holding that much place in your heart) want to put him in a basin of water in the freezer and put him out of his misery
:(
hate killing anything but if it is that or suffer ...let him just "go to sleep"

[lark]

Have you checked her mouth for a foreign object, such as a piece of gravel?

[Turin Turambar]

First of all, thanks everyone for your help and support.

I noticed some whitish stuff around her mouth, but it does not look like a patch or something like that. Can that be the fungus? However, that really doesn't look like something I saw in the books regarding fungus. That white stuff is located inside her mouth... but it's very thin, and I wouldn't notice it if she didn't have her mouth opened. Is that normal or it is a fungus?

Her mouth is empty (no foreign objects), I have no sharp things in the tank. And yes, I'm pretty attached to that fish, becuse the whole school of rasboras looked like a good teamed mates. That was really lovely. Now they seem like they split... And what's worse, she was (along with other Rasboras) my first fish in the tank.

[Leopardess]

Hm...white "fungus" in the mouth area is usually columnaris (cotton mouth). That makes me wonder if maybe there wasn't some sort of injury that got infected...

I dont know how to fix your problem though:( I'm asking around on another forum for you though...

[Ladybass]

My fish had this, it was a broken jaw or dislocated jaw. ended p having to put her down