I was doing my nightly check on the tanks before lights out and found my male fryeri upside down, obviously dying. This fish was acting normally 3 hrs before when I fed. The only abnormality I saw was a faint red spot on his belly, immediately anterior to his vent. The fish died 15 minutes after I put him in a QT tank (immediately after I found him), so I attempted a necroscopy. I've not done one of these before and my fish anatomy knowledge sucks. To start with, he obviously ruptured something internally. When I put him on the paper towel, he was leaking blood from that spot on his belly. I could see a faint bloody tint and could smell blood from the start.
Here's the outside of the fish:
Here's the insides:
His swim bladder was flat. Not sure if it was ruptured or if it should hold shape even when dead. If the latter, it was most certainly ruptured. The next thing I noticed was how huge his gall bladder was. It was literally the size of a pea. Eventually it popped as I was messing with it, and it was definitely full of green bile. I opened up the peritoneum and found that pinkish thing which was dotted with white. Not sure what that is, the liver? It was attached to the gall bladder and I was able to easily separate it from the rest of the organs in the peritoneum.
That's all the pics I have. I have no idea if what I was looking at is normal or if there is a gross abnormality there. Please, if you have any suggestions, let me know. I didn't see any signs of parasites or anything, at least not macroscopically (my original thought).
Here's the outside of the fish:
Here's the insides:
His swim bladder was flat. Not sure if it was ruptured or if it should hold shape even when dead. If the latter, it was most certainly ruptured. The next thing I noticed was how huge his gall bladder was. It was literally the size of a pea. Eventually it popped as I was messing with it, and it was definitely full of green bile. I opened up the peritoneum and found that pinkish thing which was dotted with white. Not sure what that is, the liver? It was attached to the gall bladder and I was able to easily separate it from the rest of the organs in the peritoneum.
That's all the pics I have. I have no idea if what I was looking at is normal or if there is a gross abnormality there. Please, if you have any suggestions, let me know. I didn't see any signs of parasites or anything, at least not macroscopically (my original thought).
