So my sunglow girl, Dolly has been with me since April of 2012. In that time she's never had a health issue.

In the past month or so she has stopped eating, but I'm not sure if that's because the live food intimidates her (she's used to frozen), or something else.

Just now, I heard what sounded like hissing, so I turned around and she had her mouth wide open, and appeared to be hissing at the glass doors. She then closed her mouth, her body tensed up, and I heard this horrifying loud gurgling sound (like the sound of something being dragged across the bottom of a bathtub, or the sound of someone using a toilet plunger). Almost like she was trying to vomit, or had diarrhea, but she hasn't eaten anything for a month, and it was REALLY loud. She did this hissing, body tensing, then gurgling sound several times. She then stopped, and her head twitched slightly, and she laid back down like nothing happened.

I am seriously freaked out. She is with the rest of my collection after being quarantined, and I have no idea what's going on. I've never read about anything like this, and I despair at the thought of taking her to the vet, who probably doesn't know any more than I do.

She has no discharge in her mouth or around it. Her body weight is good, and other than this she has been acting normally, just a bit shy.