Do we need to do regular treatments as prevention of aquarium fish diseases like Discus or Cichlids?

Hello, dear Aquarist, welcome again to one of my special videos about the discussion I'm getting. Do I have to treat my fish every week or every month? Do I have to repeat treatments? Is it really helping to solve my fish disease problems? Well, what's my PowerPoint? And stay tuned till the end because it might interest you to avoid problems you cannot have with your fish. Preventative treatment or monthly medication for a discus. Yes, particularly discus. People try to use every month a particular treatment also for otter fish as a prevention against diseases. Will that help? Well, I will discuss this in the coming minutes. You also can get your subtitles in your language, so you can select there on your YouTube channel if you want to have it in Dutch, French translated, which are prepared for you. Well, the best thing we want for our fish is to give the best care. We love our fish, we love the discus. That's our intention. And the same we do for people. We try to give optimal health care, effective prevention and correct diagnosis. That's what we do for people and we do for fish. We try to take care. And that's something I really will here point out in this presentation, of course, my books on fish diseases in different languages. And below you will see the link where you can buy my books on fish diseases that help you to become a better professional. Well, here we see the fish. The discus, you see, looks bad, looks not great. And some of the specialists of you, they know already, well, look at the gills, skinny. The gills are a little bit extended. Might be a gill fluke infection. Yes, we found gill flukes because we checked then in the microscope. Well, this is from another kind of fish, but at least it shows how terrible gill flukes can be and how it can damage the fish and that you need to apply correct treatment because you did a correct diagnosis. The same for discus suffering from spinal nucleus or hexametha. They're getting dark, they're slowly wasting away. They're not eating well. You see the few dark ones here on the bottom. Sometimes you see elongated whitish excrements. Well, then you take the microscope and you examine the intestine and then you'll find all those little bugs inside. Yes, the parasite's spironucleus used to be called hexameter. But then you did a correct diagnosis. Then you know how to treat. The first thing you do. So when do you treat? Well, you do first the correct diagnosis. That's the the main goal of my teaching to you. Or at least when you as especially notice serious symptoms that I showed you here on the Video of the sick discus fish. When the info is missing about the history of the fish that you receive, when there is a history of treatment at the supplier you don't know well, when that is missing, you might apply a treatment. Yes, you can do that. But I always recommend put the fish in keratin after import or after they had a long trip or stress, or when you don't know the history of the fish, put them in a carotene tank before you introduce them into your home tank with other fish to avoid the risk that a diseased fish would be introduced or at least a fish which has a disease on them. So in the carotene tank you can easily survey for symptoms and you can give good care and good food. That's the first aid. You have to give good care and good food and might not showing any symptoms and be a very healthy fish. And you can introduce after a week for example or 10 days to your home tank. So the health care is about supplying good food that we do for humans. The same thing. It's health care or is it sick care giving medications? Well, it's a decision you have to make. Particularly the first thing you have to do is health care. Because what happens when we treat every month as prevention? Well, it's an unnecessary medication which is a risk for stress. Because you're adding chemicals to the tank. You can damage the gill tissue. You can then damage the microflora of the intestine and the gills. So why should you treat if you don't know the problem? It's weakening the fish and risk to get other infections. It's a risk that parasites and bacteria can develop resistance and escape from treatment. And resistance strains of patagons that become difficult to treat. That's something you have to worry about. Why you just continuously treat every month as a prevention, not knowing if there is a disease, just thinking, well there might be a disease, let's introduce some medication so I don't have it. Well, you can create a serious problems afterwards because this gives risk to poor effectively treatments like Prazikantil against gill flukes or non effective treatments of metronidazole against spironucleus or hexameter. These are the risks you bring on to your fish. See, as we know in the history of last couple of years, the lack of knowledge leads to poor methods testing or treating healthy people or fish. That's not effective. We learned that and I hope you understand that with our fish and of course our eyes are limited. You need to have a laboratory or a microscope that helps you to make a correct diagnosis and then you can apply a correct treatment. This I explained in my books. You can get this in the link online. You want to learn more about other fish diseases from Discus, angelfish, cichlids, Oscars, Malawi cichlids, Tanganyika, Betas, guppies. Well continue watching my videos. So I thank you for watching this special one and if you have any remarks or questions, well put them down below. I will try to answer them and it's interesting sometimes to have a discussion going on. Appreciate for watching and taking your time to become a better aquarist. Take care. Bye bye.