YouTube case-study by Gerald Bassleer (video #192) presenting an adult female guppy with external deformities (hunched back, swollen belly) and internal pathology. Microscopy revealed many tubercles in organs (fatty degeneration, damaged liver, hemorrhagic gills), leading the presenter to suspect Mycobacterium infection; laboratory confirmation is recommended. The speaker attributes origin often to infected breeders (vertical transmission via eggs), notes variable prognosis (some fish survive long with low-grade infection), mentions limited success with antibiotics, and recommends improved husbandry and a specific functional feed (Fuko Fucoidone by Dr. Bassleer) and his books/training for details.
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Hello, dear Aquarist. Good that you are attending again. My next video, 192 cases already on fish diseases. And today it's about the guppy female. That's maybe why you selected the video, because you like guppies. And today it's about, well, a full grown big adult female, which is brought to me as a consultant that I have to do. Try to do precision guesswork. What is maybe going on in that vision? I show you in my PowerPoint, what could be the problems that I detected using the microscope. And I found many tubercles in this case, in organs, most likely mycobacterium. And I explain mycobacterium in detail in my books on face diseases and what you can do about it. The could be female adult had some deformed bodies, big bellies and hunchbacks. You can see here, this one here, this one see hanging there. I show another video here. You can see here the deformation, how it starts to not be shaking body, you know, not swimming normally. Some look okay, not so badly affected, but eventually they will also show the signs in the coming weeks, the coming months. And that is a problem that we can try to define by using a microscope. And we found that the gills were in bad condition. You saw the big hemorrhagic bloody areas. So the gills are in poor shape, maybe sometimes caused by internal problems. And that's why we go internally. Because if the organs like the kidneys are not working well, well, it gives this stress to the gills to do the extra work to excrete the ammonia well. And internally, well, we found in fatty degeneration. We found tubercles like this one here in the organs and also here below. Look at the liver. Not so much healthy tissue left, a lot of tubercles. Well, and some of these adults did have an advanced infection with lots of tubercles. We suspect Mycobacterium, but the laboratory can confirm that. That's why laboratory is sometimes very helpful. It's typical for old tropical fish. Yes. The origin of the problem is usually the breeder when they breeding fish in a system where the female parents give the Mycobacterium to the offspring through the eggs. A good care with no stress, good water, a good functional food can give a good survival chances for those that are lesser infected. So that is a thing you can do because some fish can live very long with mycobacterium and have a good survival rate. Some have tried antibiotics in our industry, but no success is guaranteed. See my books with details on that. And you can help with a fish food to help your fish to be stronger and better and survive longer. And we Recommend for that Dr. Basler by Fish Food Fuko Fucoidone is a helpful functional product to help combating the bacterial infection. So try to get my books or if you have them, look it up. Look up Mycobacterium and understand what I explain about it, or get my training as fish doctoring in my Patreon. So I hope this helped you to understand the problem with an old guppy, like many old fish can die from something and eventually. Mycobacterium is something typical for in our tropical waters. And I have also specific studies on that published. So you, you can look it up or if not, ask some questions here below in my channel and I try to answer them for you as good as I can. Thank you for watching and stay tuned to learn more. Bye bye.
