Egg bound

[TortieGal]

I have a large Ghost knife fish named Eve, she gets egg bound and I have to soak her in epsom salt to disolve the eggs. Its a big pain to have to do this I can hardly get her in the net she's so big. Just wondering if any one knows any tricks to keep this from happening?

[Tom]

Never heard of this one before. So, the epsom salts DISSOLVE the eggs, or get them to pass? You learn something new everyday.

[egyptiandan]

Are you sure it's egg binding? It sounds more like bloating from the diet, causing the swim bladder to expand. Epsom salts was what I was always told treated bloat.

Danny

[TortieGal]

It dissolves them, you can see a bit of ickie stuff come out.