Gerald Bassleer examines a wild-caught Rasbora colachroma with bacterial infections across its eyes, skin, fins and gills, plus intestinal hookworms and encapsulated worms. The fish has liver and spleen damage. He recommends antibacterial and anti-worm treatments with functional feeds like pumpkin seed extract.
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Hello, dear Aquarist. Today It's a case 277 about the Rasbora colachroma with a bacterial and a worm infection. My books on fish diseases, freshwater and marine, also available. The link is below where you can get more information on the diagnosis, the prevention and the correct treatment of fish diseases. Here we see the Rasbora colachroma in the aquarium. You can see that some are in very bad condition and slowly wasting away. And they had a lot of damage and that's why we take one out for examination. You could see here the bad condition with the sunken eye, the damaged body. You see the whitish head, skinny. So interesting to take a scraping. And we took a scraping of the eyes and we found a lot of bacteria already sitting here. Millions of bacteria on the lesion of the eye. We took scrapings of the skin and the fins and we seen all those bacteria. You can see them here moving around. There are different types of bacteria. Usually it's two or three types of bacteria that are infecting the fish at the same time and damaging the fish. We noticed that the gills also were badly damaged. Having some bacterial infection and of course making the fish to suffer and having a high risk to die. So all those gills had some bacterial infection internally. We found some worms, see with some nematode worms here, an encapsulated worm. We found also worms here in the intestine. We found some nematodes outside and inside we found a kind of hookworm. That's how it looks like here. The one here in the middle with some eggs already. See, this is different type of worms. We saw the organs were in bad condition here, the left the liver and then on the right was the spleen. Well, all those signs, well, of the organs and all the worms explains that the fish was suffering and the bacterial infection is killing the fish. So an antibacterial medication should be needed to help this fish. And you can ask your fish doctor or your aquarium shop later on. You can try also an anti worm medication. Yes, you can try. The worm infection weakens the fish and make it more susceptible to to infections like here, a bacterial infection. You can help with a functional fish food that helps in the repair and fighting off the diseases. And we could recommend here like pumpkin seed extract or grapefruit seed extract. We have different kind of fish food. Ask advice in your shop or look at the website details on fish diseases, prevention control treatments available in my books in different languages. Or you can go to my Patreon channel where I give you training or you can get training on fish doctoring. Thank you for watching this video on this clown, Rasbora. Rasbora colachroma that came in from the wild with several diseases. Thank you for watching.
