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Been getting lots of differant opinions and what to do so I'm going to put everything into this one thread.

3 week ago my fighting fish had a slightly bloated belly. I put it down to constipation and gave him a pea.

Still during the next week his belly kept getting bigger and he tended to have a short white stringy poop attached to him. That lasted a few days then left, but his belly still got bigger.

Finally this week, in my opinion, it's gotten to the point of it looks like he's swallowed a marble. He'll still eat food and still swims around from time to time but he does rest alot more. Not sure if that counts as lathargic though.

here's an image I took just now, tried one with and without flash...my picture isn't the best -_-

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/Furie132/Dante-4.jpg

Could be a tumour or could be severe bloat. Either way adding epsoms salts to the water will be benificial and keep him comfortable.

A tumor? How 0_0

And how much epsom salt do I add per litre?

My poor fishy...

Use Epsom salts up to the same dose as you would common salt ie. up to 1g/litre, or 1 teasp. to 5 litres.

Thats all swelling around the gut, could be worms (go for jungle labs antiparasite formula), touch of aeromonas (furan 2), maybe even basic constipation,and bacterial gaseous inflammation, often a fermentation complicit with overfeeding or a blockage of the gut, does he get much fibre in the diet?