Video presentation by Gerald Bassleer on preventing aquarium fish diseases by strengthening fish immune systems. Bassleer explains that stress and poor water/conditions weaken immunity and lead to viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections (examples: lymphocystis, hole-in-the-head, Ich). He describes using probiotics (Paediococcus acidilactici) and prebiotics (yeast extracts with beta-glucans, citrus flavonoids, vitamin C) coated on granulated feeds to promote gut microvilli growth, improve microbiome balance, enhance nutrient assimilation, and stimulate immune cells (macrophages), citing laboratory trials and published studies showing reduced mortality and faster recovery. He highlights a commercial product line (Dr. Bassleer Biofish Food / Forte, sold since 1998) and points viewers to a free dossier and the website for more information.
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Today we will talk about preventing fish diseases. How can we improve the immune system? Also during quarantine, before transport, after stress or disease. This can help all in preventing fish diseases. Do you want to prevent that your fish become sick? Of course we want. Here we see on the left a viral infection. On the lymphocystis you you see the white specks here and here we see at the right a goldfish have a bacterial and fungal infection. When the immune system is weak, the fish can get these diseases. Also here you want to have this kind of disease on your the hole in the head syndrome or the white spot infection Ich on the Loricari day. This is all in most cases due to a poor, poor immune system. So the fish can get easily sick. So we can help to prevent this to happen. And how you do that? Well, first of all, you have to avoid stress. Stress you can avoid by supplying good water, supplying good conditions. But you can also help with good food to help the immune system of the fish. The immune system of the fish is a defense against the pathogens which can be around in the water. It you can do that with the help of food, with probiotics and prebiotics. And the immune system of the fish can be stimulated. I will talk about this more now in detail. We already talked about it in part four in our videos that the probiotica can help protecting the gut flora. And we coat our granulates with probiotica Paediococcus acidilacteca. This helps to use. This helps the fish to become strong and fight off diseases. And also preventing the use of antibiotics or biofish food is giving here a high survival rate. As explained in video four, the survival rate on different larval stages in the progress of the length of time of survival of trout. And here we see the better result with probiotics and better than even antibiotics. Now we will talk today about prebiotics. And these are also additives you're adding onto the food that makes it possible that the intestinal bacterial flora do very well and grow well and are active. And also the efficiency of the intestine will be better of assimilation of feed ingredients and also improving immunity of the fish. And why are we using this? Well, it's already since 1917. It started in the USA as finding a solution of hemotherapeutics to treat enteric pathologies in cattle. And since 1993 it has been used widely in aquaculture. So it's nothing new. But our forte, for example, which is the kind of food we have, we are Prebiotics, it's the granulates with the probiotica, the Pediococcus acidulatisi. And we coat on that yeast extracts with beta glucans. And also adding on citrus extract and vitamin C, all freshly coated on top of the granulates. So we preserve the good quality of the ingredients. And why should we strengthen the immune system? Well, we explained it before. It's important that we help the fish to protect with the immune system against pathogens. So it's viral, bacteria, fungal infections and other parasites. The immune system, if it's weakened and even a small amount of pathogens can have lethal consequences. So when the immune system works efficiently, you can prevent infections and prevent medications. Our Dr. Basler Bai fish food forte is already since 1998 on the market. We were the first to produce and sell for the aquarium fish. It contains, like I said, petroglucans, some saccharomyces, yeast extracts, citrus flavonoids and vitamin C to strengthen the immune system. R Forte has beta glucans and they have a particular activity that stimulates the growth of the larger mucous cells. There is more microvilli in the gut or the intestine of the fish. Better assimilation of food and nutrients. It's promoting the good bacterial flora in the gut. It prevents the multiplication of pathogenic bacteria so they cannot settle in the mucosa. So it's a direct action in stimulating the immune system. Here we show you electronic microscope on the left, little use of prebiotics. And here with a lot of probiotics, you see the many more varied density of microvilli. So here there will be a better assimilation of food. A better microbiome will help with Probiotica prebiotica, creating the best defense. Here are the beneficial bacteria. And here are the pathogenic many beneficial. No penetration possible of the pathogenic. And if there is too little beneficial bacteria. So the pathogenic bacteria acquire easily attachment sites and become possible infection. That's all in the gut wall. We have using tests of the immunostential immunostimulant in our fish food during stress situations, where we study the command of macro farcs and the help with the bifish food forte. And on the left, we see the quantity of macro farcs and percentage. And you see the days over the time the fish were having stress with stimulant cell. We see stable amount of macro fark or defense system and no stimulant. As the fish become weak and risk of disease. This shows you in a study for animals in the blood, the macro Fark, the macro fark is a defense cell moving around like a little animal, a little amoeba like. And it's chasing the microbes. You can see these little black particles here chasing it and eating it and getting rid of it. And the more you have these macro farcs, the better your defense is. Many scientific studies have been done. Just a list here, a few, but there's many you can find on the Internet or on our website. Here a study on the positive effect of the yeast extract Saccharomyces against an Iromonas infection. Here we see the mortality rate and here we see the days of the treatment with the yeast extract. And here we see that very little mortality occurred during the time that the yeast extracts were given into the food. If none was given, the fish eventually will nearly all die. So this is a study done by scientific institutions. Basilar Bifoot Forte can help your fish. Example which we done in our laboratory, we can see here infection of Cardinal tetras. You see the spots, a combination of bacteria and Pleistophora parasitic infection. And you see after 10 to 14 days treatment with the Forte, the fish are very clean and no infection occurred anymore. So we could help the fish to survive an infection. And our food is not just only for Cardotetras but also for larger fish like jumbo fish. Here we have an example, Polypterus African Polypterus which have been feeding the fed with those big sized granulates 6.5 millimeter in a pet shop in Singapore. So it's for all fish. We have all different kinds of Dr. Bastia biofish food. Read more in our free dossier which is available free of charge at our website. You can download it. It's some facts and interesting ideas on how fish nutrition can help in the help of fish health of fish. 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