Hi all,
I have a Shubunkin, Indy, who has been living with me since the beginning of June. He came with multiple medical issues--unjuries that led to infections that led to fungus and secondary infections that led to gill covers falling off...all kinds of good stuff.
He has been in the pond again since the middle of July. He has always had a bit of a belly for a shubunkin. The other shub I have is streamlined like the comets, but Indy has a belly. It's gotten a bit bigger as he has grown, but doesn't seem to hinder his movements, feeding, etc.
I know shubs are prone to tumors. If it is one, is there anything to be done, or just let him live his life? If it isn't...what IS it? He almost looks like a long bodied fancy...kind of like you took a comet and stuck the back end of a fat-bodied variety to him.
I though maybe he was a she--I called him a she for the first month I had him:grinno:,- and might be egg bound, but...he has the white dots on his gill plates and beading on his fins like a male, chases the girls like a male...thinking he is a male.
pics The mass is pretty symetrical on either side of his tail,
no scales sticking out that I could see
Some of the others for reference. Gash, my other shubunkin, is very tapered from just behind his eyes to his tail, but Indy has a big 'belly' back there.
I have a Shubunkin, Indy, who has been living with me since the beginning of June. He came with multiple medical issues--unjuries that led to infections that led to fungus and secondary infections that led to gill covers falling off...all kinds of good stuff.
He has been in the pond again since the middle of July. He has always had a bit of a belly for a shubunkin. The other shub I have is streamlined like the comets, but Indy has a belly. It's gotten a bit bigger as he has grown, but doesn't seem to hinder his movements, feeding, etc.
I know shubs are prone to tumors. If it is one, is there anything to be done, or just let him live his life? If it isn't...what IS it? He almost looks like a long bodied fancy...kind of like you took a comet and stuck the back end of a fat-bodied variety to him.
I though maybe he was a she--I called him a she for the first month I had him:grinno:,- and might be egg bound, but...he has the white dots on his gill plates and beading on his fins like a male, chases the girls like a male...thinking he is a male.
pics The mass is pretty symetrical on either side of his tail,
no scales sticking out that I could see
Some of the others for reference. Gash, my other shubunkin, is very tapered from just behind his eyes to his tail, but Indy has a big 'belly' back there.