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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...
unfortunately so old that many of the links are dead
was here many moons ago
i think one of the initial pushes to make these fish acceptable
i remember the guy having rams breeding in large plastic ponds in his backyard
andrew
darkening is a non specific ill fish response
the pale stringy faeces indicated mucosal irritation, of the gut lining, and mucous production in response, though high fat in stool can lead to similar description and floating of faeces
the more commonly suggested reasons for this without...