Gerald Bassleer examines discus fish with holes in the head and skin cloudiness caused by heavy Spironucleus and trematode parasites in the gut. He recommends metronidazole for Spironucleus, praziquantel or mebendazole for trematodes, and restorative foods to rebuild the fish.
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Hello, dear aquarist, thank you for selecting this video because you want to watch some problem about discus. Discus that show the beginning of hole in the head disease or getting small holes around the head area. We did a microscopic examination and we found some parasitic infections that can be cured. So let me share with you my PowerPoint so you can learn how to make a correct diagnosis here. With a parasitic infection, spiral nucleus, but also the parasite Protopallina and also a trimatode internal worm. Books on fish diseases can help you to give the correct medications at the correct dosage and at the correct timing. Very important when you want to do a perfect treatment for your fish. Here we see the discus and some of them had a few holes. You can see at the head area here. Here we can see at the nose the beginning of head and lateral line syndrome. They had also a little bit cloudiness on the skin. But the problem was that losing color, showing some little holes. And this is the discus we will examine. You will see here you see the holes in the gill cover and at the head area. And the fish was not behaving very well. So we did the examination of the gut and we found all those tiny parasites here inside, which is called Spironucleus. It used to be called hexameter. Here we see more of those parasites and at the same time there were some longer larger parasites called Protopalena. So two parasites. Here you can see here the. The large quantity of Spironucleus. And here we could also see the Protopalena. And there is quite a few of them. And they block the intestine, they destroy the gut flora and of course causing serious disease of your discus fish. At the same time we found one worm, a trematode. Well, that means something made it possible that a trematode was into the fish, into the gut. A usage through the food that's been supplied through the fish. So this discus, the discus came from Asia, I will not say a country. And the fish was showing small holes. And it looks like the beginning stage of head and lateral line syndrome or erosion. First of all, check your food supply, make corrections. I have a lot of videos on that subject. That to avoid certain fish food that might have an impact on the health of your fish. And I will show you the link below in my details where you can find the video on the cause of head and lateral line syndrome. I also will try to put a link here in my video. Try to treat first of all the parasites spiral nucleus and Protopalena and usually Metronidazole with correct application you should be able to achieve good results later on you have or you can treat the worm infection with prazicanthal or mebendazole. Fish food can be a help to repair the gut flora to have a functional food that helps to control the fish disease and in this case we recommend to Dr. Basler Biofish food Lapacho My books on fish diseases help you to understand help you to diagnose and prevent and correctly treat fish diseases. The link is below. You want to become a more professional fish hobbyist or a fish keeper? Try to get training of fish doctoring at my Patreon channel. So I hope this video help you to understand what can occur on a discus fish. We seen here three different parasites have an effect on the health of those discus fish and you need to take proper action to make sure you don't lose your fish. So I hope this video help you to understand fish disease. Specifically here about discus. Thank you for watching.
