giant Snakehead Constipation

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Jack Dempsey
Aug 4, 2007
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Hi to all,

It's my first post, i have been keeping 2 baby Giant Snakeheads (5") for 2 months. This morning, I found one of them lying upside down dead. Total disappointment...

I then inspected the body for any physical symptom of infection or wounds. None is found, however, a splat of blood came out of the mouth of the dead snakehead. It did looked like some kind internal injury.

Later this afternoon, I found that the other baby snakehead was floating on the surface of the water, body bent like a u-shape with its feces hanging out from its anus. Its tail was floating on top of the water surface. From the symptom, it seems to suffer Constipation.

Is there ways to cure its Constipation??

Thankyou very much for the help......
 
SH suffer from these bloat like symptoms wherein they just hang on the surface and dont feed..i lost a number of bleheri's due to this..i found that treating them with a laxative like epsom salt helps..it helped when my pleuros were suffering from that bloat like illness..i'm surprised that it does happen to other's, i thought that it was just stressed or something until it started happening to my other channas..
 
Hi Deanglo, Thanks for the reply,

Epsom salt?? What dosage should i applied and how should I Applied? How long should the treatment be??

Should i take him out a give him a epsom salt bath or force feed him a grain or two of Epsom salt.
 
i didn't know laxatives could be added 2 the water 2 treat SH's...
 
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