Gerald Bassleer examines a guppy lyretail with early-stage skin flukes, visible under microscopy on scales and fins. Treatment includes reducing tank density, water changes, sea salt at 3-5 g/L, and anti-parasitic medications like Praziquantel, plus probiotic and garlic-enriched feeds.
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Guppy lyretail (Lebistes reticulatus)
Fish disease case number 23
February 17, 2022
3 to 5 grams per liter
Praziquantel and Ductimor
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Fish disease case number 23, about Guppy Lartail, which was a case presented to.
Me by a wholesaler. And the fish showed, well, not much.
Lesions or damage or wounds.
But some of the fish were getting darker, as you can see, some in behind here.
The ones in front, which are still very healthy, were showing a good behavioral pattern.
But some were getting, how can I.
Say, listless, weak, skinny.
There was very few losses. But for me it was important to.
Take a thin skin scraping.
And we could see already some skin flukes very actively moving around on the.
Scales of the fish.
Like this microscopic observation tells you there were not that many here.
There are a few here hidden on.
The scales, so not so many.
So we could see it was a.
Beginning stage of a skin fluke infection.
And on the next microscopic observation we.
Did, we found a few more on another part of the body.
But it's only a very few.
That's why we could see only little damage and little lesions and less losses.
But the good thing is that we found the infection on time and that in the beginning stage when you find.
Only very few skin flukes here, like here on the photograph here you can see very few on the fins that your treatment will be more successful.
And that's why you have to anticipate.
As soon as possible with this kind.
Of infections with skin flukes, because a.
Secondary bacterial infection might develop after this parasitic infection.
What can you do now in this.
Case is avoid overcrowding, maybe move some.
Fish to another tank. So lowering the volume of the fish so there is lower risk of spreading disease. Make good water changes, siphoning the bottom, cleaning the filter, all possible to remove the free floating skin flukes.
And as a treatment you can help.
With adding extra sea salt, 3 to 5 grams to a liter. You can use Prazicanthal as a treatment or ductimor or other skin fluke medications.
There are quite many available in the market.
At the same time we recommend to feed with food with pro and prebiotics to restore the immunity and the self.
Defense of the fish.
And in our case of our fish disease help and care. We recommend to feed our Dr. Basley a bifurch food, garlic and no other.
Food during that time. So these are all things can help.
You to make your fish quicker repair and restore from this skin fluke infection. Okay, more cases to come. Stay tuned and be in touch.
Thank you.
So I hope this brought you a little more sense about fish diseases and more disease cases will come up because diseases never end in life.
