Fish disease case nr. 135 Apistogramma mcmasteri with a bacterial infection and Sporozoa parasites

Hello, fish expert, fish keeper or a. You're keeping fish. Of course, keeping fish is a lot of fun and enjoying of a hobby of having a beautiful aquarium with beautiful fish. Unfortunately, there is a risk that some fish can get sick. And that happens like with people that you have to find out what is causing the disease. How can I check and what can we do to control fish diseases? Well, I offer these cases for you to learn what is needed to detect the diseases and to find out what's going on. And sometimes there is a risk of disease coming from a certain source, but in this case it's. It's disease that can occur because certain fish are. Can carry some problems. And that is a tool that I can offer by giving these classes and that you learn to use a microscope. Yes, the microscope is very important. And I will show you in the next videos that a microscope and the observations I present help you to understand that fish diseases is part of life is the biology in the aquarium. And to think, well, how can I avoid that my fish get sick? Well, it has a lot to do with the history of the fish, the history of the fish that are. Well, the kind of food you give, the kind of conditions you keep them in. Overcrowding, polluted water, poor filtration, bad water quality, food that is polluted or with a lot of bacteria or parasites or they come from the wild. Well, I explained that in all my previous video and today I, I will talk about the apistogrammastre. Well, the apistogrammastre in her. In this case came from a breeder and we found bacterial infections and sporozoid parasites. This is my case. 135, yes. Here, see the McMasteries. Many look okay, but some have a little bit Popeye, you can see it here, which is shouldn't be. But they, most of them look okay, looking well, swing well. But every day or every week we had a few like this one here. Look, look. Getting very skinny, not eating well, separating from the group and going to die. Well, that's the fish you have to use for your training in as a fish doctor. The examination of the fish to find out what the problem is. Because we didn't see with our eyes what the fish was dying from. And when we pulled out the gills, well, we saw the lesions here, here in the middle, the necrotic damaged gills. And here also a part. And those gills are not well functioning. So the fish has a respiratory problem, difficulty to get oxygen in or to Release Ammonia and CO2. That's this problem here. More advanced lesions here, bloody hemorrhagic lesions. And here all gills necrotic. The lamella completely gone. So this is a bad case of gill rot. So the fish has respiratory problems. And inside the organs we found this melanomacrophage centers in the gills, in the liver. As you can see, these are a reaction usually to a bacterial infection. So the organs are in bad shape, making the fish weak. And the fish will not eat and die. And then we found in the intestine, in the gut, some black organisms. Here we're very curious what it was. So we go to a higher magnification. And then we found encapsulated sporozoa. Here is one broken up. So you see the spores in here at 200 magnification. And we go here, 400 magnification. We see the spores here. They're not moving, they're sitting still. It's just a small protozoa. Sporozoa. And it's a parasite. Well, you can call it a parasite with damaging and having an impact on the healthy tissue of the gut. Here we see more details of those protozoa. There are millions in each sting. There's thousands and millions. And in the fission are having an impact on the health. So here is the most thing you have to attack or to handle is start a treatment to control the infectious and the gills. Because that you can treat. You can treat with an antibacterial treatment. That you can ask your fish doctor or the pet shop or see my books. Some antibiotics work very well, but that you have to ask advice from an expert. And there are some good medications you can help you which are available in the pet shop. Or you learn from my fish books. The sporozoa, in my experience, we cannot control. Some people talked about certain products that help. But say my experience I find no medication that do it. Maybe you know and you can tell me. Please react to my video with your suggestions for treatment. And maybe science is never settled. So some experience of you can help us to understand how to control sporozoa. Important is to inform the breeder because he is causing the problem in his facility having sporozoa available. So he should take actions to avoid it. You can help your fish me well, also to stimulate immunity the health with a professional treat or the herbal that can help in this case the fish with these kind of infections. You can learn more about it in my books on fish diseases which are available in different languages. Or you can become a member of my Patreon. Or you can get specific training on fish diseases. So I hope this video helped you to understand problems that can occur with fish here, like on an Apistogramma dwarf cichlid. Learn more I have so many cases that I can show you, so subscribe to my channel to stay informed. Thank you for watching.