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    Apisto eye injury!!

    topic anti-inflammatory medications are going to be needed with all the stretch due to inflammation of that periorbital tissue i have had one fish recover after twice daily medicating with combination steroid and antibiotic eye drops this is perhaps not the most correct course of therapy...
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    Long white/clear stringy poo

    the white stringy poo is due to increased mucous production in the fishes intestinal tract this mucous production is generally thought to be due to parasitic irritation of the gut lining options for treatment of the most common parasites are metronidazol or dimetronidazol for protozoa...
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    wild Baenschi

    phil you can or should be able to source ceda praz a praziquantel for fish distributed by tmc ... useful against cestodes and flukes flubendazol as kusuri wormer plus and a few other uk available names, for nemtodes and flukes and dimetronidazol from waterlife as either protozin or octozin i...
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    Wierd growth...

    an alternative and equally benign option could be a pigment cell tumour the colour just make me think that as i have only seen pale lymphocytosis and pigment tumours on gold fish ... andrew
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    Discoloration on Bolivian Ram

    you can have proud/raised (called cheloid scarring in people) scarring if the lesion has no redness and is suggested as being scarring and the fish is not bothered by and the lesion is not increasing in size... then do nothing except monitor the lancing is more appropriate if it is an...
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    black spots on crenicichla compressiceps

    maybe metacercaria would be worth a search ... not sure why that one pops in my head.... something to do within encysted tissue stages and if i am remebering correctly that situation required an intermediate host not normally found in an aquarium so not normally spread.... though i may be...
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    Anchor Worms

    I think organophosphate are manually removal are suggested Damage to the skin integrity needs to be prophylatically anaged after manual removal I think hypertonic saline can lead to less truamatic detacment... though make sure you are aware of osmotic shock to the host fish and how to...
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    Discoloration on Bolivian Ram

    Are you talking about the solid white? creamy opacity? If so i dont think that is mood related at all more likely there is a thickening of the normal tissue because cells that are not normally in this region are there If the region blurrs into the surrounding tissue and is not protruding...
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    Sick Aggie

    has to be systemic illness only way i could link exopthalmus and mouth positioning would be space occupying lesion around back of eye jaw region unfortunatley i think chances are limited too nice looking fish bacterial granuloma as in tb growth internal abcessation
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    Aahhhh!!!

    since the problem have you tested your water ? any nitrogen it is the most common stressor, was the substrate that was introduced inert? it isnt changing hardness and altering pH is it? alternatively you may have had a problem that the move and chilling have all just accelerated , rather...
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    Callumanus (worms)

    callamunus has a a complex life cycle using inveterbrates as the intermediate host, for this reason it has been suggested that it isn't likely to be a huge problem in aquarium fish some research has more recently shown that it can have a few direct lifecycle generations and so pass from fish to...
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    Need advise (Pop's may have lock jaw)

    clove oil would be more humane than just freezing/hypothermia... well thats the theory i guess we cant ask the fish the grey body colour is a non specific "i'm not feeling well" sign by the fish
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    Bio-Spira. Does it still work?

    i think some one posted a link that showed that the bacteria responsible for denitrification in acidic waters is not the one in bio spira, ie read their blurb and then just apply it their product in theory it should work in neutral waters
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    Dwarfs for tank with shrimp.

    the pattern i see when i have too many shrimps and try them in other tanks is things are generally fine fro some time, the shrimp are wary and stay hidden more the shrimp come out and are more visible with time, often actually see them face to face with fish someone works out that the...
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    Attn. Fishgeek

    it is a male trifasciata not uncommon, though i guess that depends n where you are
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