Gerald Bassleer presents a discus case (case no. 204) demonstrating "split fins" as a syndrome rather than a single disease. He documents severe gill rot (bacterial infection with slime and heavy respiration), internal flagellated parasites in the intestine, and tubercles in liver and spleen (suspected mycobacterial involvement). Bassleer advises microscopic examination to determine causes, recommends metronidazole for parasites and antibacterial treatment for gill infections, mentions possible mycobacterium that may be hard to cure, and points viewers to his books, playlist, and Patreon for more information and protocols. Early intervention improves outcomes; heavily tubercled fish have poor prognosis.
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Hello, dear Akarist, dear fish keeper and dear discus lover. Yes, you like discus, that's why you certainly are watching this video. And in the background you see a photograph of one of my trips to the Rio Negro, the Amazon near Manaus, enjoying the beauties of the nature. And of course discus, that's where they originally come from. And now we having discus in the market, which are tank raised and sometimes having different problems than we expect. So I show you here this case and it might interest you to understand what can cause the split fins of this discus fish. Yes, I had different cases already with split fins and I show you many different different ones because each fish might have a different origin. That's why split fins is a syndrome and not a particular disease. Here again we found bad gills. We found parasites in the intestine, but we found also tubercles in the organs. In my books you find a lot of information on prevention of Phish disease diagnosis with microscopic observations and also all the medications and treatments necessary. This is the discus with the split fins in another tank than the other ones we had before. So each tank might have a specific problem. Each offspring of fish from a different supplier received many several damaged gills here. Here we see also in the video. Well, those gills are respirating heavily. So the gills are moving fast or there's a problem. I mean the gills, the gill covers are moving fast. So the gills serial problem next to the split fins. And of course then we found the gills. Look at this bacterial infection. Yes, damaged. And we saw a lot of slime covering here. So the gills are not doing very well, causing the fish to suffer a lot. And that's eventually the fish will die because it's like pneumonia for humans. This is like Gilmonia for the fish, risk for mortality. And we found in that discus bad organs here, the liver with some small tubercles. And in the spleen he found a lot of tubercles. The spleen hardly had any healthy tissue left, very badly damaged. And then we found flagellated parasites moving around. In the sample we took. After examining the intestine, the gut, you see them moving around. Might be not many here, but there might be maybe plenty more in other parts of the intestine. So check very carefully when you do an examination. Here we checked another part in the intestine. You see quite a few of parasites here moving around. And of course this is causing the fish to become weak. And if they become weak, they get other kind of infections very easily. The organs are damaged, the fish are lacking nutrients, etcetera and so you have to think about understanding why this syndrome of the split fins starts to happen. And that's why a microscopic examination tells you to define the real cause, to determine the pathogen. So see my other visions on the split fins syndrome. I have a whole playlist of the discus diseases where you can find them. And the sooner you can take action, the better the results will be. The less damage will occur in the other, more healthy discus, which don't have split fins yet. Some have it a lot, some have it much less. Here, a treatment against the parasites with metronidazole, for example, and an antibacterial treatment to cure the gills. And at the same time, you have to understand that many tubercles cannot be cured, that those fish are proneable to die within a short time. And odor fish might have had only very few tubercles and they can survive maybe for a long time. So the antibacterial treatment, you can ask your veterinarian maybe to do something against mycobacterium infection. This might be mycobacterium, yes, maybe. But I have special videos on that. So check on my YouTube channel for the mycobacterium videos. Try to repair the fins with suggestions from Andrew. So in his book and also in my videos, I can explain that on the video on the split fins, which the link is below, and help the fish to restore the health with our Dr. Bass Lear by Fish Food Lapacho. That helps the fish in this kind of case to stay better alive. My books tell you and help you. You should have them. Thank you for watching and maybe you have interest to learn more on fish diseases. Then go to my Patreon. I thank you for watching this video and understanding again another discus case with split fins. Take care. Bye bye.
