Fish disease case nr. 119 Platy with parasites Tetrahymena

Hello, dear aquarists. Today we will talk about a very common fish, one of the most sold fish in our quarry. And it's about a platy. A platy with a specific disease problem that was presented to me during my work as a fish doctor. So I will share my PowerPoint with you, and I hope you can understand what was happening here. The platee scientific name is Xiphophorus maculatus. Had a bacterial and a parasitic infection caused by tetrahemena. The fish here up front was very, it was in a very bad shape. He had some bleeding, wound on the side, is getting very skinny, wasting away. Look how, how skinny he looks and how bad he looks. But we could not see any particularly sign of a specific disease. We just saw that, that wound here on the side he had. We were wondering, well, let's take him out, because the other fish in the tank seems to do pretty well. And let's take a skin scraping. And of course, this was obvious to see that we had some small animals moving around. You see those tiny, tiny, small bugs just moving around and meanwhile eating on the scales. And the tissue of the fish here, we see it in higher magnification. And those parasites really damage the skin tissue, makes holes. And they're just, are like, like little vultures. They're just carnivores eating away the fish skin, making wounds and lesions. And also in the gills, when it's in, they can cause a lot of damage. Here you see a gill arch which is damaged. You see some gill filament which is devoured. And the lamella are gone. But parasites moving around and making lesions. Here you see it also, you see the lesions here, the lamella which are gone. And secondary bacterial infections will appear on those wounds. Of course, the, the weakening of the immune system plays a part. The damaged tissue. And these parasites are just dividing in two and just multiplying and making a big case of fish disease. Because that fish is really in poor shape. And what amazed us in that one, that we also found Tetrahymena in the liver. And that might be because of that wound in the fish. They could have penetrated inside the fish and they will eat everything. They will take away all the tissues they can get. And that's where they are sitting here, inside the liver tissue and just multiplying it too, and devouring the tissue. Here we see them in a much larger, higher magnification. Well, that is causing serious damage. That fish will not last very long. We also find out that the spleen had a large melanomic farc enters which is a reaction on a bacterial infection. And you can see that the spleen is not functioning neither that's is bad shape. So about this platy. Well, the weak very exalted fish. Please take them out and put them asleep. You can use Narcomore plus which is a gentle tranquilizer from aquarium Muenster. The history of that fish must have been very bad, very stressful. Maybe during transport, maybe already at the breeder's place because they came from Asia, had trip of 36 hours. And maybe they have not been treated properly or treated too late. So. But many fish were still doing well in the aquarium. So please treat and we recommend Formalin Malachite green and middle blue mix which is our FMC where we describe the application and the formula in in my books of on fish diseases. At the same time try to supply a functional fish food because you can help the fish to be strong and repair themselves. And you can use or Dr. Basler biofish food Fuko or grapefruit seed to extract moringa for at least 30 days. And you can help the fish surviving better, particularly with that secondary bacterial infection that might pop up. So I hope you can read more in my books which are available in different languages. You can find it at my website or you can become a VIP at my Patreon so you can get training on fish diseases. So I hope this helps you to understand what can cause fish diseases and what you can do about it. Thank you for watching.