i swear i can see eyes but i can also see a few scales lifting on her belly

getting bigger quickly

just done a 15-20% water change after adding tonic 3days ago. thinking about doing another again tonight

your thoughts ...

And again

That doesn't look good probably not dropsy either, looks like a fry got stuck and she has partially exploded.. Not too sure what to do to help just hope it heals I guess?

there are 5-6 fry swimming about but they are a few days old

Dare i try a bit of DIY surgery ??? not getting any better :-?

TBH it is not looking good and I have never had a fish recover from it, sometimes the fry can get unstuck and things can come out but usually the remaining fry go septic inside the fish and it rots or just bursts and dies.. So you don't loose anything by trying there is actually a thread somewhere where pink_fish did surgery on a fish with something stuck in its mouth they put it to sleep with clove oil and did the surgery they revived it and it worked..

I'm going in. cant do more damage then what it is causing now :-?

Oh dear, poor thing! :tears: Let us know how it goes

:tears: always happens to the best looking one in the tank :an!gry

managed to get the majority out and she was swimming with a bit of a buoyancy issue (expected with that much of a change)

Fry weren't moving so still under developed.

kinda glad i did it now as she would have gotten HUGE and been even more 'discomforted'

moved the light in the far corner of the tank so she could have a bit of piece in the weeds in the other end but didn't workout

guess some of my guppies just have a high sperm count