The truth about dropsy

[The endler guy]

I’m going to say this until everyone knows it, dropsy isn’t a pathogen/ illness; it’s a symptom! Dropsy is just fluid filling the body cavity of a fish. We should not use it as a thing to treat, it should be used as a alert to other problems, similar how you don’t just treat a cough, you treat the reason for the cough and sometime if the cough is so bad you try to keep the pain down.

https://fritzaquatics.com/resources/fish-diseases/dropsy 

 

[TheSwissAquarist]

Interesting…but the symptom kills, so therefore it’s a disease?

[The endler guy]

On 11/26/2022 at 1:51 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Interesting…but the symptom kills, so therefore it’s a disease?

I don’t think dropsy usually kills unless it is so bad the fish explodes, think about it similar to a cough, it’s a response to a foreign object in the body