YouTube video by Gerald Bassleer presenting a case study of a balloon (deformed) kissing gourami infected with non-motile sporozoan parasites. The presenter describes external skin scrapings showing spore-containing capsules with thousands of spores, internal lesions (poor liver condition, splenic melanomacrophage centers), and explains that there is no direct treatment for these sporozoan protozoa; he recommends investigating breeder/supplier, improving husbandry and sometimes using antibacterials for secondary infections.
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Hello, dear Aquarist, your fish keeper today about a kissing gourami. Yes, kissing gourama is something popular. And this one was a balloon variety which had some problems. And I want to show that to you in the coming videos and explain what you can do about it or what you cannot do about it. Something you can learn from this info with my videos and my observations and my conclusions. So I will share you my screen and show you my PowerPoint and the videos that I prepared for you. And it's about the kissing balloon with a parasitic sporozoa infection. You can learn about diseases, treatments, prevention and control through my books. And here we can see the kissing balloon. Well, it's a deformed kissing. Well, I don't like it so much. But anyway, it's part still of our fish keeping hobbyists who like to keep that fish. And we couldn't see anything obvious, nothing special, but there were some mortalities. And we took some scrapings of that fish. And first of all we took one out and well, had some coloration pattern, which is some pigmentation, but it had deformation. See the back, it had not a normal body, has balloon. A lot of those fish are deformed. And this one was also rather very skinny. And through our scraping from the skin, the scales, we found two sporozoa parasites. They don't move at all. They just are a little tiny thing. And they can be found in these kind of sporozoa capsules, you can call it. And inside there are thousands of it. You can hardly see what's inside, but when you break it open and that's what happened here, you see thousands of them. And they can have an impact on the health of the fish. They take away healthy tissue and it should not be there. Look at it. Thousands and thousands. And here they are accumulated in a big mess. The skin scraping showed these parasites. Here we see it on higher magnification. We didn't plan to identify exactly what it is, but it's non motile, it's a sporozoa. And well, on the other hand, we also checked inside the fish and we went internally. We found that the organs here, the spleen, had some melanomicrophark centers and the liver was in very poor condition. And we also found inside sporozoa parasites, also inside and outside we could find them. Well, the thing we can tell you is that two sporicides protozoa cannot be treated. There is no medication for it. So we have to check with the breeder or the supplier because he has to check what kind of food he's giving, what kind of water source he is having, because that might be the origin of the problem. And this parasite can weaken the fish and then secondary bacterial effects can cause the death of the fish, can cause mortalities like we've seen in the organs with that kissing gourami. Sometimes an antibacterial treatment can help some of the fish, which are not so badly infected, and they might survive. A good care and a functional fish food can help the fish. So more info about fish diseases. Get my books. I hope this information helps you to understand fish diseases. If not, you want to be a specialized ichorist, go follow my fish doctrine at my Patreon. Well, I hope this short video about a kissing gourami with a parasitic sporozoa infection helps you. So keep on watching my videos. Subscribe so you can learn more to keep your fish in best shape. Thank you for watching.
