Fish disease case nr. 117 Betta KOI female with ICH and bacterial infection in organs

Dear aquarist, today my fish disease case 117 in the background, Norway, where I went once on a trip to see the orcas. The Norway fjords in the middle of the winter was beautiful, a nice experience. Of course, orcas are not part of our aquarium. Fish keeping orcas are too big to keep in an aquarium. They should be left in the nature. They're big killer whales and need a lot of water and big environments. And we talk here today about tiny aquarium fish who live in small aquaria. Some can become big, so you need a big aquarium. And today I will talk about a fish which is not becoming too big. So I'll share you my screen and show that we will talk today about the betta fighting fish. The Betta splendens the female koi which had white spots or egg infection and also an internal bacterial infection. You could see that the fish in the aquarium. It's beautiful colored fish. But you see some are clamping the fins. They don't look pretty happy. They're clamping, fraying the fish. Well, you can see the femurs can be aggressive towards each other. Clamping and fraying the fizzes. Typical behavior which I want to show you here. Here, the red one also, you see this fish is normally opening edge fins here at the back. Also this one here. So this was a kind of behavior which gives us, well, showing us how. Look at this one here. Also clamping, fraying the finch, fraying the tail. Well, that's the time to take a screen scraping by. We didn't see anything with our eyes. Our eyes are limited and we took the thin scraping and look what we did see. We see the scales, but we see some dark spots moving around here and here, different sizes. Those are white spots. Well, they look white on the fish because they're covered by a little whitish mucous layer. But here the ick is eventually a black spot. And they're spread around here, some bigger ones here, some smaller ones again, all on different parts on the scales of this betta. And here we see it again. Can we see it with our naked eyes? Well, I can't. Maybe you can, but my eyes, maybe because I'm 68 years old and my eyes are limited to see it. And maybe we find a few we can spot on the fins, maybe on some parts of the body which are darker colored, but I couldn't see it. The staff in the fish house couldn't see it. But the microscope told us. Here we got ichthy of Therius multiphelies This is the typical how it looks like with the U shaped nucleus. Here I show you a different magnification. So you see a nice study of a parasite with all little cilia and hairs. That's how he's moving around and collect his food. Because he's feeding on the scale of the fish. Also internally we did an examination because the fish was weak and it had a parasitic infection. And maybe that comes because the fish lost his immunity resistance. And we found some reddish areas in the liver. We found poor. Sorry, continue. Again we found the spleen with some black specks inside melanoma centers here we found even some tubercles in the organs. Look in here on the left, in the kidney. So this is not healthy looking. When you see tuberculosis already, always be aware. In most cases it's Mycobacterium fish tuberculosis. Well, what can we do? Well, as a treatment, of course we discovered the white spot. There was no serious damage, no losses yet. So you can. Your access can be very valuable if you start treating on time with an anti ache medication. For example, Fonamore from Aquariumenstroid is a medication which is used many years with good success. It's one of the oldest white spot treatments available on the market and very safe for your fish. Meanwhile, you can use our Dr. Basler bivos with Matrine for several weeks because it helps to control and fight against the reinfection of the parasites and it helps repair the fish. The fish with a bacterial infection can afterwards be treated with our functional food. Like our Dr. Basley by his food Fuko or grapefruit seed extract Moringa. Those are feed that helps as a functional help against bacterial infections. To fish with too many tuberculos might die in the coming weeks or the coming months. Right here. Show again. Parasite. Easy to see with the microscope, but not with the naked eye. Try to read my books. I have them available in different languages. Freshwater fish, marine fish. A big book here. The big one still available in English and French. And this book, the practical guide in six languages. So see my website. You can buy them and order them online. And you want to go to become more expert. Well, follow my Patreon. You get your training there. So thank you for watching my video and my case on fish diseases. And stay tuned to get to know and learn more about other cases. Thank you. Bye bye.