Can anyone tell me what this is?

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Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 2:56 PM
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My oldest Darwin female who laid a nest last Friday has developed this lump. Eggbound? Blown colon?
 

 

 

 

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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:19 PM
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holy cow! I hope it recovers, whatever it is!
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:43 PM
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eggs?
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:59 PM
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nice pics but hard to tell if its a prolapse . does it look like tissue with blood vessels ? I would think unfertilized eggs would have fungused and fallen off by now . sometimes prolapsed tissue will look blistered as the muscle around the vent cuts off circulation .
I have had to manually repair prolapse in frogs, parrots and swine . some are as easy as pushing the tissue back in but if the muscle around the vent is too stretched or torn , a purse string suture is needed .
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 4:16 PM
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It does look like eggs, but don't know what to do whats best for her. Leave it or try and push it back in? It only appeared today.
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:34 AM
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So its a week after the last spawn? It could be eggs, if your temperature is high, but it could be the prolapse as above.
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:37 PM
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I am treating her with Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) bath for 20 minutes a day. Apparently fw breeders use this method all the time and swear by it. Don't have much choice but to give it a go and see what happens.
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:34 PM
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Any updates?
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:51 PM
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Found her on the bottom of the tank when i got home from work and she was struggling........I reluctantly decided to call it a day......Farwell old girl....
 
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:17 PM
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that sucks. sry to hear it
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:27 PM
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I agree, looks like a prolapse (maybe ovary or cloaca).  Only treatment would have been to invert back in and hope it stayed there, and I don't know how you would have managed that on something as small as a clown.  She would have been finished for breeding.  Sorry for you loss.
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Friday, January 13, 2012 4:52 PM
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Oh that is so sad- I am sorry
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Friday, January 13, 2012 6:49 PM
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Yow...lost my black O female to similar egg-related failure...
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Re:Can anyone tell me what this is? - Friday, January 13, 2012 8:40 PM
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  Sorry to hear she didn't make it.