Fish disease case nr. 129 Xipho Swordtail with skin flukes and bacterial infection

Dear Aquarist, welcome again to my next case on face disease. Already number 129 with a beautiful background of the sun that is coming up at the east coast in Brazil. Well, not talking about holidays, beautiful sceneries, talking about face diseases today. And it's today I'm going to share a problem which we found in swordtails, the Xiphophorus halori. The variety was a pineapple variety which had skin flukes and a bacterial infection. We could see already the behavior of the fish was very nervous. Sometimes they were scraping, but here you could see they were getting skinny, itchy and itchy swimming behavior. You can see it in the back. Not always they're scraping, but you can see that itchy behavior already was for as a sign that we take out a few and we examine particularly we take out the ones which are very weak, dying nearly. And what we found, yes, on the skin scrape we found skin flukes. Here you see the moving away. Yes, because they don't like to be sitting on the slide or the COVID slip. They want to get away, particularly away from the light that is stressing them. And we found damaged gills with a bacterial infection. You could see this part is already gone. And here some other parts are getting damaged. Here's some lesions inside the gills which necrotic areas where the lamellae are gone. So no function of the gills anymore. We found large melanomacrophage centers or inside the spleen, which is most likely due to a bacterial infection taking away healthy tissue. Here you see some necrotic parts of the spleen. So that is badly functioning. The liver with holes inside some bleeding parts. So this liver is a not normal, nice brown, good formed liver. And we found plenty of bacteria in the abdominal cavity. You can see here the different rod like rod shaped bacteria, the pointed bacteria. So two, three different kinds. So what can we suggest for the treatment? Well, first of all, try to eliminate the skin flux. Many shops have good medications that can help you. The second action to take is control the bacterial infection. Ask your fish doctor for a good antibiotic or antibacterial treatment. See my books, they can help you help your fish. Meanwhile with Dr. Basley biofish food, grapefruit seeds extract and moringa or professional treat that particularly helps against the internal and external bacterial infections. It helps the fish to release, regenerate and fight off the bacterial infection. So those are some details I can give you and also more to get in my books on fish diseases in different languages available or get a training at my Patreon where you can become an expert and more specialized in caring about your fish. So I hope this case of fish disease helped you. Stay tuned. More to come. Thank you for watching.