Fish disease case nr. 221 Xiphophorus Swordtail with parasitic infection, skin flukes

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One of my videos on fish diseases.

Of a swordtail this time.

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I have so many different videos I made on all different cases of all.

Different kind of fish. And I show you my diagnosis, my observations with the microscope and my suggestions for treatment. And today it's about a swordtail.

Well, I share you my screen, my PowerPoint so you can see what I.

Could find with the microscope.

And this swordtail, Axithophorus Hilary had skin flukes. Well that's interesting to observe with a microscope to explain you more about face disease.

Well, I have to guide you through.

My books of fish diseases which are.

Available in different languages with a lot.

Of photographs and suggestions for treatments. Here we see the nervous swimming swordtails. Some fins and tails are damaged. You could see that fish is not swimming normally.

Something is troubling them.

Nothing to see with the naked eyes.

So that's why we need a microscope.

And we took a skin scraping and look what we could notice.

All those worms, skin flukes on the.

Scales damaging the fish. Risk of a bacterial infection coming on the damaged skin or the damaged fins. In this case it was not so much advanced.

But look here, how many flukes are sitting here and causing that serious disease?

Well, not yet badly damaged.

But that means you cannot postpone the treatment here and ask your pet shop.

There are good skin fruit medications available.

We can also Recommend to add 5.

Grams per liter of salt or sea salt. Even better. That helps good in combination with an anti skin fruit medication.

Think about that.

Swordtails like the salt, flukes don't like the salt.

And particularly a medication combined with the.

Salt is a good solution.

At the same time you can help.

With a functional food that helps the.

Fish to repair or to fight off an infection. In this case we would recommend Dr.

Basler Baifish food, garlic.

Well, details on fish diseases and photographs of diseased fish in microscopic observations you.

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