Gerald Bassleer presents case no. 254: a wild African reed fish (rope eel) from Nigeria (scientific name given) exhibiting systemic bacterial infection. He documents external signs (cloudy eyes, bloody red mouth and gills), microscopic skin scrapings showing bacterial colonies, and bloody internal organs and gut. Possible causes discussed include handling/transport stress and poor quarantine/water conditions. Recommended interventions include antibiotic therapy (oxytetracycline), functional foods (Kavar, Fuko), and strict quarantine procedures; Bassleer also points viewers to his books and Patreon for detailed protocols.
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Hello, Dear aist, you see in the background what I selected which I had taken one of my trips to Africa. And of course sharing you today, an African fish. A fish that comes originally from Nigeria. Yes, no zebras were there. This is filmed in a Zimbabwe, but still gives me nice souvenirs of my trips to Africa. Because I'm also concerned as a fish doctor about the health of African fish. And in this case it was about the rope eel, the reed fish, which is, well, how can I say. A fish that can be susceptible to certain diseases and particularly to bacterial infections. This is my case 254 on the ropeel or the reed fish. That's the common names of the scientific name Herpetoictis calabarigus. R details on fish diseases, prevention, diagnosis and treatments available in my books. The link is below, where you can purchase them in different languages. And Europile was presented to me with cloudy eyes. You could see here the eyes are cloudy. Well, we know then there is something affecting the ice could have been also damaged. So you need to do a proper examination of the body of the fish and look at the history. You see here, the cloudy dirty eyes. You see some red mouth here. So we go more in detail. The mouth is completely bloody red. We open it here, so. And the gills are completely red in here. Very heavily red color. We took some scrapings from the skin and we could see those colonies black spots of bacteria. Those are not pigments. These are typical bacteria which are very tiny little balls here with tiny bacteria inside. Tiny black spots moving. The reed fish here shows very red bloody gills. This is not normal looking gills should be nice orange red, but not so bloody red. That means there is a systemic infection. A bloody. The blood is infected also of the fish. We could see the internal organs. When we opened that rope heel, we saw bloody red organs. We pulled out here the gut, which is completely bloody red, which is not normal. We saw that the organs, the spleen and at the right here, the liver had a lot of Milano macro Far Centers MMCs, which means that the organ is reacting to an infection. And in this case certainly bacteria played a role. Also the gut was completely with blood reaction. How can I say inflamed with left and right. So that's not healthy looking. So try to look at the first signs. When you have a case like this. The first, the first fish who shows this kind of, well, cloudy eye. You suspect that you have to take some serious actions. And the cause might have been the handling during transport, poor transport or the handling before transport, during collecting or shipping of course, or bad water conditions, poor guarantee procedures. So guaranteeing is very important for this kind of issue. Learn about quarantine through my practices that I teach on my Patreon channel. Carnitine helps a lot of preventing of fish diseases here. In this case you could treat with an antibiotic like oxytetracycline which is normally a good one for wild fish like this. Ropee is wild and at the same time you can help with functional fish food granulates from Dr. Basby B. Fish food can be touchy for this kind of fish that doesn't like to eat granulates. That's why we have kavar which is a very attractive food that helps the fish to learn to eat granulates. So Kavar is good for this kind of wild fish like a long nose also or discus that's coming from the wild. You try to introduce with Kavar. That's because it has a high palatability. You also can try to feed with Fuko because that helps controlling bacterial infections, fish diseases, diagnosis, prevention and treatment available on my website. I am teaching on quarantine like on this wild African fish. I teach about quarantining these fish on my Patreon channel. So I thank you for watching with the zebrafish in the background and that you care about your fish. Yes, I appreciate you watching my videos because it means you care about the health of your fish. Subscribe to learn more Here is the subscribe button below. Thank you.
