Gerald Bassleer presents a veterinary-style case (video) of tank‑raised Pelvicachromis kribensis affected by a severe bacterial gill rot and internal tubercles. He describes clinical signs (darkening, wasting, fin damage), necropsy findings (severe gill damage; tubercles in spleen and mesenteries suggesting mycobacterial infection), and recommends rapid treatment, laboratory confirmation, and possible use of oxytetracycline alongside supportive/functional foods and specialist consultation.
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Hello, dear achorist, dear fish keeper, thanks for watching this video on a disease on a Chiclet. Yes, a pelvic Acromis cichlid that was coming from a facility that has tank raised fish here. Behind me there is a fisherman collecting Pelvic Acromis tineatus from the wild in Cameroon during one of my trips. But that's not what I'm going to talk about today.
I will talk about the findings and.
Observations I made with, well, a shiplet.
Coming from a breeder and it had a bacterial infection and had tubercles.
Some information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment can be obtained in my books, available in different languages.
The links are below.
And here we see the crebensis in the fish tank and some are becoming dark.
Well, the picture is not very clear.
But anyways, some become dark and waste away. They have fin damage and they die eventually. So that was the problem in this shicklet. But the most important thing first is to take material from the fish, do an examination and then you can see.
What it shows that the gills were.
Very badly damaged, a very severe gill rot. Of course the fish will not eat eventually and will waste away. It will die because it's like pneumonia by mankind.
It's a gill rot bacterial infection in the gills.
It's like a bacterial infection for mankind.
In the lungs it's also killing you.
And at the same time there were.
Tubercles in the spleen and there were.
Tubercles in the mesenteria, which is explaining.
Us that in general there was also.
An infection going on. The gills were badly damaged.
So.
Well, in that case you have to treat as soon as possible because you cannot lose time when that is advanced, it's beyond any repair. The tuberculosis which we found internally are.
Most likely caused by mycobacterium or fish tuberculosis.
Only a laboratory can confirm that. We can of course help the fish to try to treat with an antibacterial medication.
Ask your fish doctor.
You can also try oxytetracycline as a.
Suggestion to start a treatment. Anyway, evaluate with your fish doctor or with your specialist in the aquarium shop.
At the same time you can help the fish, which are still eating and doing well to fight off an infection with a functional food because the fish.
Can prepare himself and defend himself.
We recommend there here in this case.
Dr. Basler Biofish food Fuko well, information.
On fish diseases diagnosis, prevention and treatment in my books. Or you can become a specialist in fish doctoring or in preventing fish diseases. In training in keratining, freshwater marine fish.
At my Patreon Channel. Well, I hope this video helped you.
To understand this kind of problem on this cichlid.
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