Gerald Bassleer examines a Synodontis nigrita from Nigeria with bubble-like skin deformities. Skin scrapings showed enlarged epidermal cells, historically linked to viral infections, though lab culture is needed to confirm. He recommends better food, reduced stress, and early treatment for recovery.
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Hello dear aquarist, welcome again to my.
Case 174 about the catfish. Yes. Southern south and South African African catfish Cynodontis, which I was received in one of my research cases when I was helping out in fish diseases as a fish doctor.
And the Cynodontus nigrita here, this catfish.
Originally came from Nigeria. Had some bubbles on the body. Yes, something very strange.
And I tried to show you in the aquarium and you see the fish.
A few of them had some strange things on the body. You can see here is one and.
There'S one swimming here.
You can see a few of them. They had some strange bubbles like here.
They had a bubble.
This one had a bubble so or.
Strange bubbles on the bobby.
So we took one out and you.
See here in the jar you see those strange bubbles. Strange things I haven't seen before.
Very unusual.
That's what I like about my job to see very unusual, well diseases.
So for time for me to check it out. So taking skin scrapings and we saw.
Those kind of deformations on the skin. The black parts here are the pigments.
And we then the different of our parts of our scraping. So we see this kind of large.
Growths of cells here, enlarging cells on the mucus of the body of the fish. You can see here the enlarging cells like giant cells.
Well, it's usually those enlarged cells.
In our cases, in history of our work on fish disease is usually caused by viral infections. Well, only a laboratory doing a virological examination culturing can examine it.
That's very expensive, taking a long time. And well, the only thing we can do in that moment is try to.
Help the fish keeper how to take care of it.
And since we know it's wild fish, well we can realize sometimes it's a.
Very unusual viral infection.
What it is we don't know. But what we can do is giving the best conditions, giving good food. Try to help the fish with a.
Functional food that helps in strengthening and repair.
And we could see that many of.
The fish were healthy, not showing any bubbles. It were the weak ones which were having. Having stress by the transport lack of food. Many different origins could have caused that. At the strong or synodontist which we saw with the tank didn't have it.
We recommend for this or Dr. Basler BI fish food professional treat. And the sooner you act, the better.
The results will be.
The fish will have self repair opportunities. Some might not survive if treated too late.
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