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Thread: Dead Riv XIP, red belly... what happened?

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    Dead Riv XIP, red belly... what happened?

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    Dear all,
    I'm no medical student but from the following pics, does it look like intestinal bacteria infection or ??




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    Ron, that is, I'm afraid, a sign of an internal bacterial infection. This arises when fish are fed contaminated food accidentally. It is usually the case when a fish consumes a worm or another live food that was carrying a parasite, in this case, the deadly bacteria. Do a simple autopsy on the affected region and you will know what exactly killed the little guy.

    I had the same problem with my Corydoras cats when they first came in from the importers. Most of these wild corys do have an infection or two but it usually clears up during quarantine. I would suggest that you quarantine all the fish that had come into contact with the dead body. There is a remedy for this internal infection. Its called Sera Bakto-pur. There's a tablet form for the fish to feed on which helps to clear the digestive tract of unwanted pathogens.
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    Ronnie, it could be schistosomiasis, intestinal blood fluke. Does SG have a
    problem with schistosomes in the water like some places do in SE Asia?
    Curious. Humans contract the condition swimming in water that has cercariae (from infected snails) or eating fish that are infected. Untreated, it's a nasty, slow way to go: a male flatworm wraps around the female and she gives birth to several hundred eggs a day (these worms left untreated can live 20-30 years in humans). Treatment is praziquantel (Biltricide, trade name in the states) which is also effective on tapeworms. 200,000,000 people are infected (estimated) and 1,000,000 die yearly from schistosomiasis. Lake Malawi in Africa could be the international home office for these flukes

    Bill

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    Bill, I believe the sickness is called bilharzia. Here in SE Asia we have several nations that are very much into agriculture, especially in the area of rice farming. The people here still use traditional methods when it comes to sowing the paddy fields with rice seedlings. My relatives used to have a paddy field in Malacca when I was much younger. It is highly possible that the disease occurs in this region as well but I've not heard of any cases here in Singapore.
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    Bill, I believe the sickness is called bilharzia.
    Hi Jianyang, yes, that's the old name for schistosomiasis, named after
    Theodor Bilharz (German, Austrian?) who first discovered this blood fluke
    in Egypt. I remember reading about him when I was 13, gave me nightmares, these flukes did. The cercariae, once they are freeswimming
    from the snail, do not need "opportunistic" openings in their victims/hosts:
    they can bore right through the skin

    Bill
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