All my previous male rachovii always seem to be pregnant and they die young too. I have checked that they are not infected with callamanus worm but I'm not sure. If this continue, my line of rachovii will be gone soon.
Is there anyone who can give me some advice?
Thank you very much.
Here is a picture taken before food.
What are you feeding your rachovii?
I think it is too late to save your rachovii pictures (best spawn him and be done with him) but we may be able to save the next generation.
If you can, get the fish to a vetenary pathologists just so that one can rule out glugea. I do suspect this is just an internal infection from improper feeding.
Cheerio
Thank for you help, Throne.
I feed them with Grindal and frozen Blood worm. I've stopped using tubifex worm even before this rachovii was born. I guessed the disease is like bird flu, difficult to eradicate.
Rdgs.
I killed a fair number of fish with frozen bloodworms, before I caught on that many are unsafe. Some big name brands, here in the US, have poor quality-control at their asiatic sources. The worms sit in buckets in the hot sun and die, and they freeze them anyway despite the decay products. Some fish bloat and die quickly when fed those bad worms. Your nose may or may not be able to tell.
Stores can defrost and refreeze worms to the same end effect, but I have generally found SF Bay Brand and Hikari were safe if the packages were flat and undistorted by thawing.
You can check for Glugea yourself on a recently dead fish. Use a razor or scalpel to slit open the gut (or just squeeze out the contents) and look for white balls. The Glugea cysts are hard to miss. They look like oversize white opaque eggs. The KT archives have ways to treat for it.
Wright
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805 Valley West Circle
Bishop, CA 93514 USA
Thank Wright.
I pick up some tips from Miami CSI on how to dissect corpses... I mean died fish.
Hi guys,
Just a word of caution when you use frozen food.
Most of the time when the food is not thawed, and is fed to the fish, it can bring about the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, and this condition is known as gastroenteritis.
With inflamation and possible a secondary bacterial infection, you'd get fishes with symptoms like these, and the prognosis of such cases is usually rather poor, unless anitbiotics is adminstered intravenously by a vet.
Most of us usually put the blame on bad food, but I'm just trying to share another of the possible etiology to this condition.
Cheers,
Kenny
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