Gerald Bassleer presents case 266: Malawi cichlids (Nimbochromis venustus) affected by a Mycobacterium infection causing fish tuberculosis. He describes external signs (exophthalmia, color loss, wasting, abnormal swimming), gill lesions, and numerous internal tubercles; notes poor antibiotic response and recommends euthanasia for terminal fish and improved husbandry/functional foods. He also points viewers to his books and Patreon for more training.
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Hello, dear aquarist. Welcome to my next video on a case of fish disease of a cichlid. A Malawi cichlid, Nimbochromis venustus. That's why I have some African animals behind me today to support my work. During my trips I can take sometimes nice pictures of wildlife and giving presentations on fish diseases and cases and discuss what I find and what kind of suggestions I can give for treatments. I may be wrong, but it's highly unlikely. Well, that's why today we will discuss a case about an African cichlid that is dealing with an infection of bacteria, the Mycobacterium, which is causing fish tuberculosis. Case 266. Read more about fish diseases. Understand how to diagnose, understand the diseases and learn how they affect the fish and especially how to treat. This is all available in my books and they are available in different languages. Here we see the Malawi cichlids, Venustus. Most of them look okay. Yes, but it starts with a few that starts to separate. Getting exophthalmia or bloated eyes, losing the nice color, getting dark, wasting away and die and tumbling around, swimming, irregular, abnormal behavior. Well, that's the fish we have to take out and to examine. Because the other ones in the aquarium, okay, they look alright. They seem to be interested to eat. But they might also have the disease. But not so badly sick yet. Not yet. We found it is vernustus, some bacterial infection in the gills. You can see here this part that is broken apart by the bacterial infection. And here also some parts of the gills that are missing. But internally we found in the organs many tubercles. Many tubercles that taking away a lot of healthy tissue, causing the fish to become sick, weak, not eating and eventually die. So the venustan cichlids. Well, as I said, a few fish show the suffering, while others might not show it. Yet we suspect the bacterial infection, like a bacterium. And some fish, yes, when they are suffering, like the one I showed you, too late to treat. It's better to put it gently asleep, euthanize it. You can use narcomorpus or other kind of tranquilization medications you can try to get from your shop. Some try to treat with antibiotics, but the results are usually very poor or not effective. So far I know the breeder must solve the problem because it's the breeder who creates this problem. And these fish. Venustus cichlid came from a breeder. We suggest you give the best care and that you of course give the best food. A good functional food that helps the immune system like our Dr. Basler buy a fish food alloy or professional hair or Forte. We have many different choices that can help your fish. So learn about fish diseases from my books. The link is below where you can order them or you can become a Patreon member at my Patreon Channel and learn more about Phish diseases to understand how to diagnose, to learn how to diagnose and to follow courses to train yourself. Well, I hope this video helped you to understand this problem that occurred with this Malawi shiklut. And I may be wrong, but I don't think so. Thank you for watching.
