Right so i was asking about salt baths in the beginners place but it turns out that a Salt bath is not working, which leads me to believe that i have mis-diagnosed my fish.

So... i have a female Krib, about 2 yrs old, who has been headstanding for about 4 days now. She has not eaten ( as far as i can tell ) in about 2 weeks. She is fully and darkly couloured in her breeding colours, but her mate is not interested this time round.

She is quite literally pushing herself around with her lips, but more often than not, is stuck to the filter intake grill.

I caught her last night, (with my hands as she is not capable of going anywhere fast, if at all ) and felt her belly area. It was soft and supple, not hard like i would expect from a blockage (either gas or poo).

She did a poo, it was like a tiny blueish green piece of ultra fine cotton, about 3mm in length. So not sure if she is constipated.

She has had epsom salts added to her tank, 1 tblspn - 20 ltrs.

She has been offered ONLY shelled mashed peas to eat.

Im stuck as to what else to try.

I though this maybe a side effect of the furan-2 i was using a few weeks back to treat for columinaris (she was never sick, but 2 tank mates died so i treated as a precautionary.

Any ideas.... This is really frustrating!

2 years with no health issues and now a whole lot in a row!!! :-?

Cheers

Sorry I have no idea but wondered if kribs can get egg bound?

i think all fish can get egg/fry bound?

Sorry, Krissie I know nothing about kribs

Have you tried putting her in a breeding trap, just so she doesn't get sucked in by the filter???

I tried this with a sick platy once and he did come around, well kinda, he lived for a couple of weeks after removing him from the trap but the filter won in the end :evil: So either what ever happened to him in the first place got him and then once the filter did, well, the rest is history, no more platy

she eventually ended up upside down, completly, with what looked like pus coming out her back end.

We felt the best thing for her was to end her pain, and we did.

It was hard to do, but she really was a mess.

IMO she was probably egg bound, which led to an internal infection from the eggs going bad inside of her.'

Nothing was helping and i felt so sorry for her.

Sometimes it's the best thing for the fish.

cheers guys

Sorry about your fishy Krissie ...and you are sooooo right about how hard it is to, well you know...recently been through that one