Below are case summaries of fancy goldfish with buoyancy issues for whom we have x-rays to look at internal anatomy. 

• Annette's Jasmine and Clementine
• Marilynn's Pluto
• Marilynn's Venus
• Marilynn's Panda
• Jo's Dessert
• Jo's Raven

Annette's Jasmine and Clementine thread

Summary: Clementine, has a has always slept upside down inside his cave, (Annette drilled holes in the top). He hasn't grown as much as the 3 other fantails that arrived when he did. He has white bumps on his fins. He swims in spirals up to the top and down to the bottom.
Tomorrow I have an appointment for Clementine, the swimming in spirals, sleeps upside down in her cave, internal bumps in her fins, smaller than the other 3 that came with her, goldie

Clementine's x-rays
Before swim bladder aspiration. Clementine's caudal lobe is large and displaced laterally.

After swim bladder aspiration

January 2007
You can see from the lateral view that there is just no room for the posterior lobe. The darker area above the swim bladder lobes is all muscle. See how it curves downwards to the bottom of her caudal peduncle near where her vent would be.
in the second x-ray, the light area running from the base of her head to the base of her tail are the muscles along the top of the fish. Again, I can't see any detail inside her belly. Since there's no room for the caudal lobe to expand caudally, it's possible given the caudal lobe is so over inflated, that there was just less resistance on that side for it to expand where it could.


Jasmine my previous floating upside down goldie, tonight late is floating upside down again, worse.
Jasmine's cranial lobe looks too large given her size. It also looks like Jasmine's caudal lobe is displaced laterially. There may also be air in her belly (darkarea in the lower left x-ray).

Marilynn's Pluto thread

Summary: Pluto is upside down and not eating.

Pluto 5/31/2007

Lateral x-ray

Dorso-ventral x-ray

Marilynn's Venus thread

Summary: Venus was completely upside down and struggling to stay off the surface.

Video of Venus

Lateral x-ray. The caudal lobe is small and there is gas in her intestines.

Dorso-ventral x-ray

Marilynn's Panda thread

Summary: Panda has had some buoyancy problems for about ten days now. When the usual solutions failed to work he had a visit with Dr. Roberts.

Lateral x-ray. The caudal lobe appears underinflated and it looks like there is gas in the intestines.

Dorso-ventral x-ray

Jo's Dessert

Summary: Jo adopted Dessert and she turned out to have a mass in her belly.

Lateral x-ray. The cranial and caudal lobe appear to be large. The white round area below the caudal lobe in the right x-ray may be the mass.

Dorso-ventral x-ray. The caudal lobe is displaced to the left side.

Jo's Raven Video of Raven.

Summary: aven had problems with head standing and then later being stuck at the top of the tank.

Lateral x-ray shows only the cranial lobe which appears to be somewhat over inflated.

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