Gerald Bassleer (presenter) advocates using probiotics in ornamental fish diets to prevent and fight disease and to strengthen the immune system. He emphasizes that stressors (measurable: ammonia, nitrite, temperature, oxygen; and less-measurable: packing, feeding, high stocking) plus contaminated water/food introduce pathogens that weaken fish. The presentation promotes probiotic-coated granulates (named strain: "Paediococcus acidy lactase" in narration) as food that improves gut microbiome, metabolism, immune response, and survival; products include fine-to-medium slowly sinking granulates for different aquarium levels. A comparative study/graph is referenced showing probiotics (red line) outperforming antibiotics (blue line) and no treatment (neutral line) in survival.
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Gerald Bassleer.
"Already for more than 40 plus years" (as stated in the narration).
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Probiotica in the fish food to prevent and to fight fish diseases, to repair fish. Our scientific study and experience teaches us lessons. Already for more than 40 plus years I work in the fish industry by importers, exporters and consulting to improve fish health by choosing the best solutions. And we must choose the best for our fish. Fish will eat what you will give them. And here you see the choice. They prefer to have a granulated food instead of a green vegetable. Your fish cannot choose, but it's up to you to choose the best quality. Our ideas are not new, but 2000 years old. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. Hippocrates said it. And the origin and problems of fish diseases occur all by the cause of stress like temperature, ph, together with microbes in the water, all are having an impact on the fish health causing diseases. And stress can have many causes. Usually the stress we can measure are those like ammonia, nitrite poisoning, temperature, lack of oxygen. Unfortunately, there are unclear factors. The ones we cannot measure, like packing or feeding or higher populations. We can introduce high microbial loads by introducing diseased fish or by giving food which is contaminated with pathogens or microbes. So this can all cause the immune system to deteriorate and making the fish weak and prone to get an infection. So the fish is in the immune system, there is pathogens in the water. We can give good food or bad food, we can have bad water or poor handling, etc. All having an impact the fish's health. And the probiotica here we're talking about are microbial cells that in the diets help to improve the health. And we know it all about the lactobacilli and the bifidobacteria we have in our daily human consumption. We know it already for many years. Healthy microbiomes has to do with the gut flora with the green good bacteria and not giving a chance to the red pathogenic bacteria not to invade in the gut of the fish. So create this good healthy layer of good healthy bacteria in the microbiome. So there is a good defense against the bacteria. And all this nutrition we can do to improve the intestinal microbiome with the probiotics, to improve the metabolism, the immune system, the gut interface all with the work with with a food. So probiotic in Dr. Basler biofish food is all about granulates that we are coating with bacteria. Paediococcus acidy lactase bacteria on top of the granulates fresh to be consumed for ornamental fish. And all the ornamental fish can have the probiotics. And we have it in all our different kind of fish food for all kinds of fish. Here you see our fine granola to medium be fed to community of fish with live bearers, tetras. And also for the bottom fish, the corydoras. Because our food is slowly sinking, sinking to the bottom. So all fish in all levels of the aquarium have an opportunity to be fed. So use it to make your fish in a good condition. We had studies done not only by me, but also by experts. You can see the red line with probiotics, which has a better result than than the blue line, which is the antibiotic. And of course, better than the neutral line, which has no treatment. So higher survival bai fish food can help to save your fish and help your fish control for a better life. We thank you for your attention.