Gerald Bassleer diagnoses a Betta halfmoon with fin damage and a mycobacterium bacterial infection. The video covers symptoms, treatment options, and how to prevent the disease from spreading to other fish in the tank.
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Hello, dear aquarist, thanks for watching again.
The fish doctor, the consultant who tries to do precision guesswork.
Well, yes, because we receive fish to.
Examine and to find out what's going on.
And I use tools like a microscope.
So show, watch my PowerPoint which I present to you and I show you the fish here today.
It's about a specific Anabantidae betta fish.
A very beautiful Betta fish.
But it had tubercles in the organs, looks like mycobacterium.
And damaged fins. Fins by probably aggression.
Yes.
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Here you see the half wound Betta female. You see the badly damaged finch. Yes, because the friends in the aquarium.
Is chewing on that fish because it's.
Weak, it has a disease problem.
And when the fish gets a disease.
Problem, they're easily attacked, are eaten or damaged by the other healthy fish in the aquarium. See, this one has looking great.
And this one, well, is badly damaged by his friends. And we found a lot of stressed gills.
Look at that.
So the fish was suffering, badly suffering. That's why he was not feeling well.
And the organs had a lot of tubercles in the organs, in the spleen, in the kidneys, in the liver.
Look at the liver here.
Very badly infected with tubercles.
And that's most likely mycobacterium.
And here we went through the gut system. All the gut all had tubercles, looks like little holes. But there are encapsulated parts of bacteria.
Because of the defense system of the.
Fish that make tubercles.
And that's hard to cure when it's in that stage.
Well, the fish is beyond any cure.
It's too late to do something about it.
So some fish would need to be.
Euthanized because they are too heavily infected.
And the organs are too bad and.
It'S too late to cure.
Separate the sick fish to avoid to.
Be bullied or to be more damage.
So you can try to treat separately.
The origin of the problem lays by the breeder.
And a good care with no stress.
Good water and a good functional food can give good survival chances to the lesser infected fish. And it's important in general that you try to give those perfect conditions to your fish.
So you will have much lesser diseases.
And much less problems.
Some have tried antibiotics like tetracycline or minocycline or streptomycin to treat this kind of mycobacterium, but no success is guaranteed.
See my books for more information. On that.
At the same time, you can try.
A functional food like our Dr. Basler buys his food Fuco with fucoidone, which is an extract that helps in combating.
Bacterial infection and giving a faster repair to the fish.
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About fish diseases and get more ideas.
About treatments or get a training as.
A fish doctor to become more specialized.
So I hope this video helped you to understand this kind of problem with.
A betta looking good in color but.
Badly damaged by the finch, by the fishy friends and by an infection.
