Fish disease case nr. 148 Xiphophorus helleri with health problems and ICH White Spot infection

Hello dear aquarist or fish health manager or those that are interested to learn something about fish diseases. And today in my case148, we will talk about the swordtail, Xiphophorus halory. That's a scientific name. And this fish also had a mix of problems. And I tried to explain that in the coming presentation which I prepared on a PowerPoint with my macroscopic findings and my conclusions, what you can do about it or what you can learn about it. So stay, keep on watching the next minutes. It's only a short video, but it might very helpful for you to understand fish diseases and what you can do about it. So this case 148, the swordtails, we found a mix of infections or problems, I could say health problems, including white spot infection or ache. Ichthyophtherius. You could see here the fish swimming. Not much, but you could see some bad tails, some skinny fish, damaged fins. Look here at the bottom also this fish. This is not normal swimming, not normal tail. Here also this one here and this one here. Let me show you again. You will see a few in this bunch of sword tails that had bad tails. And that's the one we take out and use for examination. Here is one, here's another one here. See the bad tail. Here is one. That male also here has a bad tail and showing a stressed behavior. So most of them are looking very healthy and doing well and eating well. But the other ones will eventually die a couple of days. And then we took skin scraping and we found some holes in the scales which is. We call that holes in the scales. In my last book, the Practical Guide of Fish Disease, I discussed this, the scale holes. And this is caused by amoeba, which is too small to detect by a regular microscope. You need really very high resolution microscope to detect those amoeba. That's the kind of bacteria type that makes these holes in the scales. And the fish loses scales and get damaged. Usually it's caused in the breeding facility. At the same time we found some tiny white spots here. Here we show it on the video. Here we see them, how we recognize they're moving around alive. You see the white spots, Ichthy of Therius, they're not very big yet, but they are causing risk of damage to become a serious infection. We found a few here on this part of the scale. And we also go the tail. We found also a few here. Here is one and there is one. See we see the white spots sitting there slowly moving. Well, they are there. They're alive. They are sitting underneath the mucus well protected for certain medications. So that's why you have to put a medication in the water. When it drops off and gets released underneath the slime. That this parasite can be treated when it's in juvenile form. That's explained in the book, in my book on the cycle of the parasitic infection, white spot disease. These white spots here are well protected underneath the mucus. And only in the reproduction states. It can be killed by medication. And that you can do. But with the precaution you have to do it at least for seven to 40 days. This kind of treatment, a fish food can also help that the parasites get released into the water and start to reproduce. The gills were stressed. You could see the stressed gills reddish. So the fish was not in a good shape. Some gills were damaged with a bacterial infection. So that is not good for that fish. We check the organs, very pale organs. When we open the fish and we examine it. And here we put it on the slide. We see all fatty tissue. Here you see the pale organs. Here in the retinas is the spleen. And this here is the liver. Fairly pale. See, that's the pale liver, which is not nice brown liver. This is the spleen, which is not normal because it has Milano macro fark centers. And here is the fatty tissue all around. So this fish is in a very unhealthy situation. And that is that generation of the degeneration of the organs. Usually caused by poor feeding, poor food by the breeder usually caused diet. Dan Merbach is causing holes in the scales. And it's spread in the tanks. For the breeder. Treat with formal animal like ring. The weakened fish can catch more easily. Other infections like here, white spot disease or ache or secondary bacterial infections. It started to develop in the gills. You saw already some bacterial infections. Some damaged gill tissue here in this case for white spot. Also Formalin malachite green can help you. And to improve the general health of the fish. We recommend to feed with Dr. Basler biofish food matrine for at least 20 days. No other food. This helps to eliminate the parasites and to be more effective treatment with an anti ICH treatment. Like Formalin malachite green or Farnamore from Aquariumenster. After which you can feed with our Dr. Basleer Baifish Food Forte 10 days a month. And no other food to help the immune system of the fish. Particularly with this bad fatty degeneration. Some fish might be too weak to repair. Understand that? But you have. Please, you have to try something. Learn more details through my books. Become a specialist when you join my Patreon Channel. So this case of a weakened swordtail getting other infections and particularly the white spots we could detect, we couldn't see that with the naked eye. We looked at the tank, we couldn't see it. They were still small and didn't show up until we took a microscope and examining a scraping. So you try to use a microscope when you really work with these diseases, particularly when you have the time and the efforts to buy microscope. It's very valuable. I hope this video helps you to understand fish diseases and how to treat. I thank you for watching.