I had a small female that I thought was too young for the males to be interested, in an all male tank. Well, sure enough the males started chasing her and took a small chunk out of her tail. For a while they chased, I was hoping she would drop her eggs eventually. Finally I took her out cause she was just exhausted at the bottom of the tank. So I am assuming she is eggbound. I placed her in my all female tank. She looks a little bigger round the middle and just stays at the bottom of the tank. It could be SBD for all I know though. So what does an eggbound female look and act like. Is there anything I can do for her to speed up readsorbtion? And how long will it take?

Thanks!

This is a very interesting problem I would like an answer as well.
Do an egg-bound female recover quickly if there is no male to spawn with her?

Once I did not realize "princess" was eggbound and was thinking remove her to reduce one more egg eater from the other spawning pair. I keep her in a one gallon container for half day and came back home to find about 20 eggs sticking at the bottom. Of course those eggs were not fertilized.

Based on my limited observation, I think eggbound fish is big at the behind and two sides are not symmetric.

---Goldfishpal

Ranchugirl answered this in the other post
you raise the temp. to 82-84 degree
then add epsom salt in and fast the fish for 2-3 days
im not exactly sure what egg bound is
can a fish actually die from this ?

Yes, they can SLS. Its not the eggbound situation they can die from, but the eggs inside her basically can foul, and cause a bacterial infection, and that is the worrisome part.
Egg bound basically is a female, that has eggs inside her, isn't able to either get rid of them by releasing or absorbing, so the eggs just sit there.
Obsidian, depending on how big the female is and how many eggs she has inside her, reabsorbtion can take a while, from a few days to a few weeks. My big calico girl was sitting for almost 2 months on the bottom, before she was up and running again, and I didn't even know what it was. Ingrid from Puregold filled me in on the egg absorbing process.
Besides the things that SLS mentioned, time and good water is all you can give her.
Is it possible that she is just stressed out from the boys chasing her? Stressed females tend to hide and just sit and rest, and that can take a few days as well, if the males were realle relentless...
Keep us updated on your girl!

from what you said Ranchugurl
it seems that eggbound disease is caused
when you take your fish out prematurely
and thus the female is unable to release
all the eggs
its a double edge sword coz if you leave the female
in there for too long, then she may get injured
by the male fishies
another way that you might deal with this is to mate the female
with a smaller male fish
that what i do-
my pond has more males fish that females
so every time the female looks exhausted i put her in
a separate enclosure along with a smaller male

ill look out for this disease next spring
and thanks for clearing it up, Ranchugirl