Gerald Bassleer examines a Colombian tetra with bacterial gill rot and liver spots plus encapsulated worm larvae. The fish shows reduced gill tissue and liver lesions. He recommends antibacterial treatment, functional foods like grapefruit seed extract, and consulting a fish veterinarian.
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Hello dear agrist. Welcome again to my next cage on fish diseases. And today it's about a South American tetra coming from Colombia. Yes, a wild African South American tetra. It's the Haemotopsis gracilis with a bacterial infection and a few parasitic worm larvae. Details you can find about tetras also.
In my books on fish diseases where I explain specific diseases that can help you.
And this one, well, this one arrived.
Very skinny, very weak.
Some things can happen with wild fish that they are exhausted and had certain problems with them. So it's time for us to do an examination. We found in the gills some parts with gill rot. You can see here the parts where the gill lamellae have been disappeared, usually by bacterial infection. And he also found Metacercaria worm larvae taking away healthy gill tissue. And that's creating a problem internally we found a very bad spleen. Look at the spleen, very, very mins small with all those melanomicrofar etc. So that is not working properly. And due to bacterial infection also in the liver, you see all the spots in the liver. Well, this liver is not healthy. And then we found internally we found Metacercaria, those encapsulated worm larvae. We found also bacteria here we found a Noral beta cercaria next to the gut, the intestine. So we had a mix of problems here. And particularly the bacteria is a serious problem. And worm larvae encapsulated metasacaria oil. This is a problem causing weakness of the fish. And these worm larvae, they can be a small infection in some of the fish. But in others it can be very serious. But here in this case it's more likely that the fish need to be strengthened with good care, good food. You can try antibacterial medication, ask advice in your pet shop or from your fish doctor. The care can strengthen the fish. You can help with that with a functional fish food like our professional treat or the grapefruit seed extract moringa. Those feet are functional in helping in the repair and from certain infections.
Many details about fish diseases and treatments.
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So I hope this case on a.
Wild tetra helped you to understand fish.
Diseases and try to solve and give good mitigations.
