Have You Ever Dealt With Dropsy?

Ive never lost a fish to dropsy but Ive dealt with it quite a bit when I ran my rescue. 200 bettas at a time and all of them came from deplorable conditions. It’s easily treatable if its caught in its early stages. It’s not a disease its a symptom so you have to first correct the cause and then treat the fish. Finding the cause is usually what kills the fish. It’s difficult to narrow down what it is. What always worked for me was twice per day epsom salt baths (1tbsp for 1 gal of water) for 15 minutes, kanaplex and sulfaplex to treat, the water the fish lives in, and then kanaplex, focus, garlic guard and brine or mysis shrimp daily as a medicated food. It has worked every time.

I have one with dropsy and I don’t think she is going to make it

My sister's betta developed dropsy while he was in a hospital tank. It got better after we did a 100% water change.

I still don't know if he had dropsy because of being thrown from his tank, if the water was too cold, or if the water was dirty.

All that matters to me now though is that he's back to being healthy

I’m dealing with it right now along with fin rot or fin biting— I’ve changed the water almost a million times and fixed the algae problem but he’s still like. Lifeless and he’s not even eating or swimming around so I’m probably just gonna euthanize hIm then leave this amino ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have only encountered it 3 times. My first experience was about 2-3 years ago I had a huge 80 gallon goldfish tank filled with Thai and Indonesian imported goldfish(very expensive) they were all fancies eg ryukin and butterfly telescopes. And my favourite a big black ryukin got a dropsy I tried everything peas, salt baths etc. but nothing worked and he ed peacefully. My second time was with 25 gallon community Betta tank my red HM make he was a rescue and I had him for 3 years also ed from dropsy. And the final time was with my show winning female breeder betta she was only 1 and a bit but thankfully she survived she was a female from my spawn so I know her heritage so I could trace it back to who bad gene she inherited so I wouldn't breed him again. And she ed of old age a few months ago. This was probably very long!