Unfortunately it seems both of my newly bought rope fish have dropsy only 4 days of being in their new home. I am a new fish keeper and got my first tank only this Christmas. I was looking forward to keeping my snakelike friends for at least a third of their 15-20 year lifespan until I could give them away as I would be leaving for university. They both have a bloated underside of their bellies and cloudy eyes. I feel like this may have been my fault, despite my endeavouring research beforehand, as I visited my local LFS 2 weeks before I got them and they seemed perfectly fine, in what it looked like was a small 40 litre aquarium, then moving them into my 60 gallon aquarium they got dropsy.
If anyone can give feedback on at least why this tradgedy happened I would love to hear it. I feel as if they may die by tomorrow because I don't have a suitable medicinal hospital tank. Not a very good start to 2020 but I have to realise that these things do happen, especially with such wondrous creatures like fish.
If anyone can give feedback on at least why this tradgedy happened I would love to hear it. I feel as if they may die by tomorrow because I don't have a suitable medicinal hospital tank. Not a very good start to 2020 but I have to realise that these things do happen, especially with such wondrous creatures like fish.
