Fish diseases & solutions with the help of medications & fish food: a good treatment!

Gerald Bassleer explains common fish diseases caused by stress and poor water quality, and how to treat them with medication paired with functional fish foods containing probiotics and plant extracts like garlic and grapefruit seed. He covers ich, gill flukes, hole-in-the-head syndrome, and internal worms, with protocols backed by lab tests showing improved survival rates.
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Hello, fish keeper or aquarist or fish hobbyist. For those who are listening to this video, I'm sure you want to spend your 25 minutes to listen to some short details about the most important diseases and some advice for treatment. Combination of medication and together with a fish food that helps you to solve many problems which you deal with when you keep a corneum fish. So I'm sure those 25 minutes will give you valuable quality and care for the better keeping of your aquarium fish. Thank you. Hello. Today we will talk about fish diseases and how can our Dr. Besley Bai fish food help you and of course help your fish. First of all, we have to look at the cause of the fish diseases. And as I explained in previous videos on YouTube, the stress is the important risk factor we have to deal with. And the stress can have an impact on the health of the fish so that a pathogen who might be available in the water can infect the fish. So this is something we always have to think about before we start medicating or treating our fish against diseases is to check why do the fish get sick. And if you want to talk about preventing fish diseases, first of all it's taking care about a good quality of the water by good filtration, regular water changes. And what we particularly will also talk about today is about the correct feeding. Because correct feeding is something which is usually neglected because fish are eating well, we just give them something. No, something we should think about. What can we do better with feeding? And in this case it will be in regards of repairing the fish when they have a disease, helping the fish during a disease. So how can we keep our fish healthy? Well, it's your care by the fish as fish keeper, giving a good food and giving the best help to your fish. Our ideas are not new, but already 2000 years old. Which explains that the food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food, which is something which is very clear explained in our daily life as humans. So what is so special about our doctor Bass nearby fish food? Well, it is a functional food, a functional food with fresh phytobiotics from nature and they can contribute to the health and the well being of our fish. But it's important that those phytobiotics are freshly coated with top of the granulates. So the ingredients coming from those phytobiotics are guaranteed active. Because if they are cooked or heated, they might be not active at all. So it's important that they are freshly coated to have a functional activity. For example, a good gut flora which can be obtained with probiotic bacteria, Paediococcus acidilactisi, which is giving a super defense at the fish. And that we have in all our different kinds of baifish food we have available. Let me explain you on the diagram here. It is only very few beneficial bacteria. That means probiotic bacteria. There is more chance that the red, the pathogenic bacteria can acquire attachment sites to the gut wall and a risk of penetrating and infecting the fish. But if you have many probiotic bacteria, there is no chance for those pathogenic bacteria to find an attachment site. So this way this is a protection. And we learned by immunity lessons that the gut is a very important immune system and a big defense for fish, people, cats, dogs, everything. Many people know what Dr. Besley buys with food and that they all contain the probiotics Pediococcus that takes care of the good working gut flora. And we have the regular. We have the cholera algae for the good for the libraries. We have the SAE for extra color of the fish, the green for the green eaters like cichlids and loricardita cavar for the more difficult and special wild caught fish. We have the shrimp food 100% veggie with aloe to help fight diseases. And with beta glucans also for immunity of the shrimps. We have the better taps which are fish friendly. And we have the baby nano for the micro pellets. And we will talk now about the foods later on in the coming minutes. Because it's about the 90 minutes explanation that we will explain about garlic, what it can do in the help against parasites and bacteria. Alloy regeneration and repair the herbal a general care when there is a bacterial viral infection. The forte with immunostimulantia beta glucans to make a defense for the fish. We also have the moringa and grapefruit seed extract in our biofish food which is carried during an internal bacterial infection. One of our most important ones, I feel is the Matrine because it is a very active product against parasites like egg and oodinium and particularly in the reef aquarium Lapacho against the hole in the head disease, our spider nucleus parasites, the pumpkin against internal worm infections. And our latest one, the Foucault, which is a very good help during a bacterial infection like the common disease columnaris. And we have for the professionals the professional care and treat, which is a broad spectrum treatment. So let's start first of all with Dr. Basleer buys his food for forte which is meant for new arrivals, for fish kept in quarantine and for prevention because it helps the immune system, it helps to have more macro fars and a macro far is a defense. It's eating away bacteria, it's eliminating bacteria, eliminating pathogenic bacteria. Here, a sample in an animal blood sample. And this gives the help of a fish to fight off infections that can happen and can help. We did testing with fish during stress and we applied immunostimulants in the fish food. And we could see after a few weeks that there were still a lot of macro farts where we were feeding our beta glucans in the forte, the bifichrut forte. And we were during stress, not feeding this stimulant food, this biofish food fortate. We had much lesser counts of macro farcs and a larger risk for disease. Now we've talked about white spot disease, one of the most important diseases we are dealing with in our freshwater and marine aquaria, also called ich, Ichthyophtherius is the scientific name. What is usually the cause of this kind of white spot infection? Well, in most cases it is due to fluctuations in the temperature with too cold water changes or poor heaters not working well, or cold drafts, windows which are left open or doors. A failing kerentine can be a problem. Stress can be a risk factor, a cause, and also bad food. Ich must be detected in the beginning stage, the beginning stage. Your fish are very active still. They can still eat a lot. They react well on medications. They're not so weak, so they can, in this case they are not so weak so they can accept treatments. So also your treatment will be more effective because the fish will eat better and will do better. So check your first stages of the disease. Look at the gills because the parasites are also in the gills. And that's what I explained in this slide, that the parasites in the gills are causing a serious damage because the eggs are little animals and the little animals are damaging here, look here, causing damage to the guilt tissue. And that is a risk of bacteria getting in. See all those parasites moving around here, sitting in between making lesions and making wounds. So that bacterial infections can have a serious impact. And that's why eventually there will be a mortality and the fish will die because of the secondary bacterial infection. First of all, it's necessary that you should know how the cycle is of this parasite. That the white spots you see are full grown parasites which eventually will drop off in a few days and reproduce. A few hundred little baby tomites and they will reinfect the fish. Important for us to know that these baby parasites you can kill with the medication, but you also can help the fish by giving him a food that repels the parasite or prevents that the parasite reinfects. So we can work both ways. Working with the Basler anti ich method with a medication like faunamore that kills the baby parasites and the bifish food matrine that helps the mucus the skin of the fish to become a repellent for the parasite. So to help fighting off. And that combination is a perfect solution for many ICK cases. We call that the Basler anti egg method, which you can find back on our website. You can find back in the brochures from my Corda Munster. We also explained that raising the temperature can have a positive faster treatment activity. A microfiltration UV ray treatment, siphoning the bottom can help leaving the lights on. Because during night the parasites reproduce. When the lights are kept on, they don't reproduce. So all these methods we explained in the flyer and in the brochure. We also have the marine egg, known for the marine egg wrist, also called cryptocurrenc, which is the same kind of problem like the freshwater. And we can use the same Dr. Besler anti egg method. It's the combination of the fauna more treatment with the biofish food matrine. Together they help easier the fish to survive the infection. And also for the reef tank we have a solution that you can treat with protomor, which is safe for the invertebrates. And at the same time again giving the bifish root maturine. Together they can help the fish to fight off the infection. So studies have been done with the matterene in fish food against cryptocaryan that when feeding matterene in the food, there's less amount of perticite on the fish after a couple of days and also less muscles after 3, 4 weeks. Higher survival rate with the butrine in the food. High losses, less survival rate when there was no butrine in the food. This is a scientific study. So that's where anti egg method helps. And in some cases when you have reef tank in the beginning stages of the disease, just feeding the doctor Besley biffish wood poultry and syphonoving the bottom for example, or raising the temperature can help already to fight off this parasite. Even without medication. It's possible. But then you must really do it and act in the beginning stages. Another parasitic infection is Oodinium or velvet disease in marine fish it's called Amylodinium. The treatment for Oodinium is the same kind of combination like in the doctor Bessler and the ICK method. It's the combination of Oodemor, which is a copper type parasite like copper sulfate. Together with the doctor Besler bifish food Matrine. Please don't use this treatment medication with Odomar in the reef tank because it can kill your invertebrates. But you can use the metre and just the metrine by itself can be a big help. We did a test with that in our laboratory with Daniel, who had an Oodinium infection. And we just treated with Dr. Basbir Baifish food. And on day one we found many Oodinium parasites in the gills. On day 12 we found that there were only few parasites left because the Oodinium dropped off and they hardly reinfected the fish. So we had a very good repair of the fish with the help of the Dr. Besler Bathresh Wood Madrine because working as a repellent. Another common disease which we face in our aquarium hobby are gill flukes. Here on this discus fish, you see how skinny it becomes. And sometimes he has a scraping behavior. You see the fast respiratory movement, sometimes the shaking. If we do a proper examination of the gills, look how skinny these fish are. Like a razor blade. Look. This fish was loaded with gill flukes. Also marine fish can have gill flukes. So what can you do about gill flukes? Well, first of all, to think about the damage it can cause to the gills because it can cause secondary bacterial infections on those legions. Look here, this gill arch is completely rotten off. And those worms are very nasty. They reproduce within seven days with eggs and then they reinfect again and eventually the fish can die because of these infections. So we can recommend for you a treatment with the ductiomorph Forte from aquarium Muenster, together with our doctor Besler bison garlic in the food. The garlic work against the flux again in the food, not in the water, but in the water you can use the ductum or forte. The combination is a good way of treating gill flukes. Important that you should feed during minimum 10 days the bifurcate food garlic and meanwhile feeding no other food. Because you need to have the fish to take up as much garlic as possible. And also follow the directions of the medication. Because sometimes you have to retreat and take actions properly. And for the damage done to the fish, for any parasite or for gill flukes, we recommend to use afterwards the Dr. Basler Baish's foot aloe combination with the aqua vital stress protect from accordion Muenster, which is good for the repair of the damaged gills, also the damaged skin and fins. So the combination here will help that your fish Repair much sooner than you want. Hole in the head disease. Another disease which is very common with marine emperor fish, angelfish, tanks of surgeon fish and freshwater cichlids. It starts sometimes in small holes and after a few weeks they become very big holes and lateral line getting eroded, also called head and lateral line syndrome. There are several causes. That's why I call it the head and lateral line syndrome. Because there's not a specific disease, because we don't find a specific pathogen causing it. So it's a kind of syndrome. Usually the reasons could be stress of the fish, could be overcrowding, dirty water, etc. And also the parasites that usually are in the gut. The parasite spiral nucleus, which we can find in the gut, also a bad gut flora and a damaged gut is causing lack of immunity of the fish. A permanent carbon filtration, particularly for marine aquaria, causing a lack of essential nutrients, causing a lack of vitamins and trace elements because eliminated by the carbon filtration. Also because of bad feeding can be a risk of a lack of good nutrients. Also secondary bacterial infections can have an impact in causing the head of the line syndrome. When we find spatonucleus, the first thing we can look at is at the excrement. And you see here a white slimy string hanging here on this angelfish, which is typical happening when there is a spiral nucleus infection because there is extra mucus. Because the parasites are in the gut and they are irritating the mucus lining and that is causing extra mucus and that deficiency mucus. But also when you examine the excremage, you will find these little white pertussites also in the excremage. So it's a way to detect this perticite, but it's causing weakening the fish. And in the larger angelfish or discus or tangs or angelfish or surgeon fish, we can find them later on the holes. I have a specific video on that, but I explain on YouTube, so check my YouTube channel. For the treatment of this syndrome. The hole in the head and the spinal nucleus, we recommend the combination of the medication with hexamore which is amino nitrothiazole, same like metronidazole. And together with the B fish food, lapacho, which has lapacho that fights off the perticites, the garlic, which helps fight off bacteria and parasites and stimulates repair the chlorella algae has extra vitamin B12, perfect for repair of the holes and other probiotics to help to repair the gut. So now something else. Bacterial infections, which is a very common problem in A tropical occurring why? Because tropical temperatures make faster growth of bacteria and causing the fish much faster to die from bacterial infections. Like here, this guppy with columnaris disease or this columnaris on this Neon tetra causing very fast necrotic tissue. And the fish will die very quickly, overnight. It's common problem because we keep a fish in warm waters and bacteria love warm waters. For the treatment of bacterial infections, we recommend first of all a very good water change which eliminates a lot of bacteria. And then to treat with aquarium muensters veromore as a treatment because that kills off parasites. And then we have the Dr. Basler bifruit Foucault that helps the fish to fight off the bacteria. It's a kind of repair against the bacteria. And scientific studies have been done with positive results with the Foucault the Fucoi dam in the food against columnaris here done on fish tanks with Nile tilapia that when you were feeding the fish with the foucault that there was very little damage, very little necrotic tissue and very little columnaris infection on the body and the skin of the fish. And with no treatment, there was very much damage, a lot of damage. So Fucoidan was protecting the fish against the columnaris infection. We did ourselves in our laboratory a test a treatment with Dr. Basler Bajerfud Foucault in a gourami, a trichogaster which had bad tail rod. That was day one. And after day 10, feeding this orfuko food, we had already big repair of the fish without medication. As long as the fish was still healthy enough to eat good food, he can repair himself with the help of our Dr. Basler Bajfut Fuko. Also for internal bacterial infections, we can help the fish with our Dr. Besler biofish food, grapefruit seed extract and moringa. Different cases of fish infections can be helped with that. But it must be done as long as the fish are still eating. As you understand, otherwise no choice. And what is the help with this grapefruit seed extractor moringa? Well, the grapefruit seed extractor moringa leaves they are working as a disinfectant. But particularly the citrus acids from the grapefruit seed extract and the flavonoids are a big help for the fish. And the fish heal and grow better with the moringa. So faster regeneration when there is an internal infection. Also for other fish, like diseased koi and shrimps, this grapefruit seed extract moringa in or biffish food are a great Help. Another case we're dealing with is the upside down swimming of fancy goldfish. And we can help by treating with the Dr. Basler Baisherfood herbal sinking food with herbs is a big help because the fish don't like floating food because they have a bad control of their swim bladder. I have a specific YouTube video you can watch on my channel. Internal worms like nematodes here on this wild tapista gramma. Here are the nematodes. We can help the fish by treating or helping them with the food. With our Dr. Basler by fruit pumpkin, which has pumpkin seeds. And also the argument medication helps to fight off the parasites like internal nematodes in the gut. So a combination again of a treatment argumor against the herbs and the pumpkin food with the pumpkin seed extracts helping to fight off the worm infections in the gut. So so many things I can explain about fish health, but the fish health you can decide as a hobbyist that you make the choice of a good food helping your fish. And for the professionals we have the care professional care and treat. Where the care is a prevention plan with beta glucans, immunostimilantiae, yeast extracts, citrus extracts, chlorella algae, acai fruit. All for the professionals when having keeping fish in a quarantine for acclimation procedures. The preparation for sale, for transport and specifically also for breeders to make their fish strong again. And then we have the treat the professional treatment which is a general help for diseased fish as a broad spectrum treatment which contains garlic, the aloe, the peppermint, the thyme, the mugwort and the chicken wheat. All phytobiotics that help in the professional food for repair during disease and after treatment. That's for the professionals. This is an example of a professional feeding here professional treat to his clownfish to make sure they are cleaned out of parasites or bacteria. And this is for him a big help to have good source available for the hobbyist and for you as a hobbyist, we have free samples and the pet shops can distribute it free of charge because it gives you a guaranteed success for your fish care. Do you need more info? Well, see my YouTube channel. I have playlists in four languages about fish diseases, about prevention, diagnosis and treatment. See the links below. You can find them. Also try to obtain our books. You can order them through the pet shops online or through our website on marine fish diseases and on freshwater fish diseases. Because we are all responsible for the care of our beloved accordion fish. And therefore I want to thank you for your attention to try to be a better aquarist. Good luck. Thank you.
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