Pinkish white thing protruding from rear of fish. Not poop.

[ScandiDefense]

Hi everyone. Me again with one question. I noticed that one of my molly babies has this weird pinkish white thing sticking out from its rear. It looks too big to be poop. One molly baby (from my previous batch of molly babies) also had this same weird thing protruding from its rear. I thought it was poop and was stuck. A few days pass and it looked sluggish and started to becoming lethargic, i thought i should try to help it by trying to remove the "poop". Maybe it was constipated. I tried to scrape it off but it held firmly to the baby's rear. As i continued to gently scrape it, i started to realise it is not poop and is something else altogether. When i pulled it off gently, there seems to be blood!!!! My son was horrified and said it is the intestine of baby molly. And a few days later it died. 

 

So now i dare not do anything for this current molly baby. I will leave the thing untouched and consult you guys and gals before i do try any interventions. Any ideas what that thing is? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Sorry for the low quality pictures. Hard to take pictures of fast moving babies especially with my lousy phone. 😂

 

 

 

 

[Colu]

That a prolapse it's really common in livebearers when they are struggling to give brith  what you want to do is Epsom salt baths 1 table spoon for 1 gallon for no more than 15 minutes for 5 days as Epsom salt acts as a muscle relaxant to help your fish reabsorb the prolapse  if you notice any sign of de-stress remove your fish from the bath use a lower concentration of Epsom salt for the next bath @ScandiDefense

Edited April 29 by Colu

[PineSong]

One strain of guppies I was raising kept producing females who developed prolapses. None of my other guppies or my other livebearers had any prolapses at all, so I considered it to be a genetic problem and I removed the females with prolapses to a tank without males to make sure I did not continue to pass on that gene. 

[ScandiDefense]

Thanks so much! I am gonna try the salt bath. But i m not gonna keep my hopes too high because the thing is about a third of the baby's size!!! Long and dangling now... Feel so bad for the baby... 

On 4/28/2023 at 9:29 PM, Colu said:

That a prolapse it's really common in livebearers when they are struggling to give brith  what you want to do is Epsom salt baths 1 table spoon for 1 gallon for no more than 15 minutes for 5 days as Epsom salt acts as a muscle relaxant to help your fish reabsorb the prolapse  if you notice any sign of de-stress remove your fish from the bath use a lower concentration of Epsom salt for the next bath @ScandiDefense

 

On 4/29/2023 at 8:23 AM, PineSong said:

One strain of guppies I was raising kept producing females who developed prolapses. None of my other guppies or my other livebearers had any prolapses at all, so I considered it to be a genetic problem and I removed the females with prolapses to a tank without males to make sure I did not continue to pass on that gene. 

 

[nabokovfan87]

Best of luck. 😞