Fish disease case nr. 59 Discus with bacterial infection

Dear fish keeper, especially today for the discus lovers, we have here a case of a discus. That's why I'm used here the background of a discus like a turquoise blue color appearing, which I took on one of the discus shows. Sometimes I attend when I'm traveling. This is my background today. But the background of the visual world show was not that great. But because I'm going to talk today about the sick discus, the batch of discus that was having serious problems. And it was eventually a case of a bacterial infection. So far we could diagnose today in our case already 59, it was the variety of snake. Red blue snake skin, red blue discus. They become dark colored. You can see in the back here it becomes skinny. The respiration is sometimes quicker or faster. See the gills are a little bit open and they eventually die. Here we see the same tank, you see the same discus. Here. If you see that behavior, you know that fish is already too late to be treated. And the other ones are not showing it so badly, but they also are more likely infected, but not showing it. It always starts with a few fish, maybe one, maybe two. But eventually it will be within a couple of weeks, will be five or six. So the ones who show it already like, like this one here, you can see the finch also some damage on it. Well, they tell you a message that you have to take action to check what's going on with this fish. So when checking that discus snakehead we found bad, poor gills. Look at the gills here, how badly they are destroyed. Necrotic gills really destroyed bacterial infection here, more gills really gone. All the lamellae. You can imagine that that fish was suffering as respiratory problems because the gills were badly infected with a bacterial infection. And also the internal organs were very bloody. Look at the intestine, only bloody here the liver, very bloody. This is not normal, it should be brown. See more parts of the organs, bloody parts looking very bad. This is not a normal looking organ. And we found that the food was not digested. Look, the food, the whole intestine was full with undigested food. Here at the end the tract, undigested food, some excrement, but also some undigested food. That means there's a problem in the tract or I mean in the gut or in the intestine. So what could we suggest for a treatment in this case for this snake skin discus? Well, the very sick fish, it's better you put them asleep because they can be a spreader of the bacterial infection that was going on. Of course, it would be interesting to Find the kind of bacteria and to do for a breeder microbiology in a laboratory and do a determination what kind of bacteria and what kind of antibiotics you can apply in the sensitivity testing. But this case, it was not done. It was a case which was brought up to me. And sometimes the money is not spent on laboratory checks. So that's a choice you have to make. The choice you have to make is that you can check your food source. Maybe the food was polluted with pathogenic bacteria. Frozen food is not killing bacteria, like I said in previous videos. And the live food also can contain pathogenic bacteria and causing this. A bacterial infection can be cured with an antibiotic. You have to ask your vet, maybe as your vet will take samples and send it to the laboratory. Improve the microbiome. Of course, we could see that the fish was not properly digesting the food. So there was a problem with the intestine, with the beneficial bacteria in the intestine. So improving that helps the immunity of the fish. We also recommended to feed the fish during a minimum of 10 days or Dr. Basler Biofood Professional grapefruit seed extract and moringa. But that helps particularly in the gut and in the internal body of the fish to control help to control bacterial infection. It's not a medication, but it's a help for the fish to fight off bacterial infections. And in the months afterwards, we would recommend in this case to apply 10 days treatment with our Dr. Basler divers food forte. Why do we call it a treatment? Well, it's a treat. It's an immunity stimulant with yeast extracts and probiotic pediococcus to recover the immune system because the fish were weakened, had a bad digesting. So all those things help. Maybe that was the main cause in this case that the fish were suffering, maybe because the intestine was in a bad shape. You saw the bloody parts in it. There were some pathogenic bacteria there, so the microbiome was not functioning well. And the immunity then vanishes because the intestine is a very important immune system for the fish and for mankind. So think about that. So the food can help in there, but also the food can be the problem, like I said, when you're feeding live or frozen food. So I hope this case for the discus lovers help you to evaluate the problems which can occur. Thank you for watching.