Gerald Bassleer examines an Apistogramma panduro with fin damage, emaciation, and internal nodules suspected to be fish tuberculosis. He recommends removing the sickest fish, lowering tank density, and feeding probiotics for 20 days, noting there's no cure for internal tubercles.
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Case number 24.
Apistogramma panduro.
Gerald Bassleer.
November 8, 2021.
20 days.
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Well, today I will talk about another case, phage disease, case number 24, about an apistogramma banduro. What you can see in the video here is that one particular male was already having some fin damage. Looking skinny, you can see that the body is not well formed anymore. The colors are not perfectly so. The fish is getting weakening. And it starts with one fish and a whole bunch of other fish, which looking pretty good. So we take out the weak fish and we make an examination here. We couldn't find anything on the. On the skin tissue. And we could see that some of the gills were not well formed. You can see some melting, we can say melting or scrambling together of the gill lamellae. So damage of the gill tissue. So that needs some stress factors for having an impact on the gills. It could be pathological, it could be chemical. And here we also see other parts of the gills were badly. Not deformed, but badly formed. And that can be cause of internal problems, can be a cause of bacterial diseases. It can be different cases. But the thing we could see that the guilt issue was in not a very good stage, not advanced, but still showing that there were some lesions. And when we go internal to check the fish, we check the intestine, and we found these kind of black swellings or organisms inside intestinal tissue, intestinal walling, bigger magnification, we could see again those inclusions which are somewhat encapsulated in the Indian tissue. Here we see more of them. And, well, in most cases, when we would send it to the laboratory, we didn't do it because it's always a price decision we make, that it would cost us money. But in many cases, particularly dwarf cichlids apistogramma, one of those species that are very pronable or likable to get tuberculosis or mycobacterial infection. So the major problem we found in the weakening of this fish was this amount of tubercles infecting the organs. And there is no cure for this tubercle because the medication cannot treat, like I explained in my YouTube videos on MyCobacterium, that nasty bacterial infection which is sometimes common in certain species of fish. So there's no good treatment, really we can do. What we can do is avoid a heavy tank load. That means avoiding dense pitfish populations, avoiding poor water conditions. We should think about that. Avoid poor feeding practice. That means, for example, avoiding feeding with mosquito larvae which are carrying mycobacterium, which is a. It's found in science and studies that can be a problem. So we can help the fish in giving the best conditions we can do and the fish are very sick, we better utilize or remove them because there can be a risk of spreading the disease. And be careful for your hands and your tools, particularly your hands for a zoonosis risk on wounds can have an effect. So I explained it also in some of my YouTube videos. I recommend for the treatment. Well, like I said, you can do some prevention treatments and removing the very sick fish. And meanwhile you can feed the other fish with pro and prebiotics to give the fish support for self defense and repairing the damaged gills. And therefore we recommend the feeding of 20 days with our Dr. Besley and Baifeshwood who forte or the professional treats or the Fuko which are all feed which have a particular help for the fish so it can repair and survive better the infection and live it a long time. Because they can live a long time with this kind of infection. Except for the fish who are badly, badly damaged. So that's the ones you have to remove. So this is some suggestions I can give you for for Apisto Gramma Pandora treatments. Because those treatments are not always so effectively. But still some fish have very little infection. And that very little infection, the fish can live a long time with it. And you cannot see, you cannot open all the fish and examine it. But my suggestions for a proper care and a proper feeding will help you to have a better survival rate with Apistogramma and other dwarf cichlids. Wish you good luck in the hobby. Thank you.
