Fish disease case nr. 106 Caridina ornamental aquarium shrimp with a bacterial infection

Dear aquarist fish keeper today it's for those that also are keeping shrimps, ornamental aquarium shrimps, which is not usual that I have these in my practice to work with as azure fish doctor but anyway, this case was presented to me and now I'm presenting it as case 106 about a Caridina propinqua, golden sunsets, which is a cultivated ornamental accordion which were dying with a bacterial infection. And I show you my, my findings here. You see them here on the bottom of the fish tank. Some look a little bit pale and we had some, some losses, see some pale ones in between, they're getting weaker. And some were dying. Obvious, no particular big patches or big wounds or things to see. But when we examined them and I show you here in that video, you see the millions of bacteria which we found internally, which was probably the major cause of the losses that, but also shrimps, like aquarium fish can suffer from bacterial infections. And we also found in the mouth part a big lump of colonial bacterial infection, even a little bit fungus. But mainly it was a big bacterial infection. And on top of it we found some tubercles in the palms of the shrimp. See here inside. So our, our conclusion was that, well, that we might have found some Mycobacterium infection which is suspected the bacterial infection causing here problem, maybe a mix of bacteria. Usually it's not one bacteria that is causing a problem. Usually it's a mix. Some are not suffering so badly. So you, your treatment can be pretty well successful if you start it quickly enough. And in this case we can advise an antibacterial treatment with a proper antibiotic. Please ask your fish doctor. He can help you with that because shrimps support very well antibiotic antibacterial treatments as long as it's not other treatments. Be careful. But antibiotics or antibacterial treatments are usually safe for shrimps. We also have a special Dr. Basley bifish food, shrimp sticks that you should give at least for 20 to 30 days and no other food because that food contains some essential nutritional elements as well as probiotics, the paleococcus bacteria and the prebiotic yeast extracts together with aloe vera. And aloe vera is known to help repair tissue for shrimps. It's used in aquaculture also for the food shrimp which we have on our dinner plates these days. So this was my case on a problem with Caridina shrimps. I have more info available in my books, particularly the practical guide. We also talk about shrimp diseases, some interesting things you can find there and of course try to follow my Patreon to where you can get expertise information to become an expert in fish keeping and in fish carrying. So I hope this video was helpful for you and that you can be in charge of controlling your investigation, your diagnosis, your prevention and treatment of fish diseases and shrimp diseases. Thank you.