Help!!! What on earth is wrong with my gourami?!

[dragonbyte]

Help! I came home today to see my dwarf gourami looking like this and I’m not sure what’s wrong!! For the past few months he seems to have been isolating and not really that active, I don’t think he eats that much..

I first suspected constipation but this just happened overnight, is it dropsy? help!!

 

[Spinich]

I am not a fish doctor, but it appears to me to be Dwarf Gourami Illness (iridovirus), which is expounded to immune deficiency as a result of genetic situations brought on by the huge over breeding and inbreeding of the business market.

Bloated Gourami Fish Disease - Iridovirus | Treatment - SeaFish

 

[ProudPapa]

I suspect Spinich is right. Also see My thoughts on Dwarf Gourami/Trichogaster Lalius.

 

[dragonbyte]

I suspect Spinich is right. Also see My thoughts on Dwarf Gourami/Trichogaster Lalius.

Well, that sucks... How long do fish with this live for?

 

[DoubleDutch]

The fluid in the body is caused by kidney and spleen necrosis. When it starts suffering / not eating I't euthanise.
It is irreversable.

 

[Spinich]

Sorry about the fish, it is definitely sad when they fall ill and we can't help them.