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aquariumadventures · 5 years

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Have any of you ever had to deal with a mystery (probably) bacterial fish infection that won’t seem to go away despite some of your fish seeming immune? If so how did you get rid of it, or did you have to sterilize your tanks? And if so, how did you deal with things like plants/driftwood?

Long story (really, long) about what’s going on in my tanks under the cut, if anyone can maybe help and needs/is interested in more info. If not just... let me know your experience curing bacterial/viral infections that seem to last forever and wipe out new fish despite current fish not being affected!

So summer/fall of 2017 I bought 8 Emerald Dwarf Rasboras. I’m pretty sure they were wild caught, though I’m not entirely sure. Anyway, within 48 hours 4 of them had died. At least one was very emaciated, the others I can’t remember noticing anything major about them. I bought them the same day as 7 or so Kubotai Rasboras, so they were all in the same tank together. The kubotai rasboras were fine, and never showed any signs of anything at that point.

Eventually the 4 EDRs I had left came out of quarantine, and I moved them into their permanent home. They seemed perfectly healthy for months, and they even bred for me at one point.

Shortly after that I bought 6 Celestial Pearl Danios, to add to the 2 I already had, which had been perfectly healthy and wonderful for about 6 months. (Since they’re $11 a fish here I tried to get two and breed them to fill out a shoal. It didn’t work, I couldn’t get fry, so I ended up buying more.) Those 6 did well in quarantine for about 3 weeks, so I moved them to the main tank. I also added an apistogramma to the main tank in that time. Everyone was great until about 7 weeks after I’d bought the CPDs, when the apisto started showing signs of internal parasites (bloating, stringy white poo,) and the CPDs started dying one by one, usually looking emaciated losing color and having red gills or redness around their stomachs. The WCMMs and pencilfish in the same tank were doing fine, but I treated the tank with Paraguard, then Prazipro, as well as feeding metroplex in food for 14 days. All the CPDs died, and the apisto did too though I think it was more from the treatment (and low resistance to things from being stressed in my hard water) than the illness itself.

Spring of 2018 I decided to try to replace the CPDs, and I got 6 more. I kept them in quarantine for 6 weeks. During the last two weeks, I started adding water from the main tank the old CPDs had been in to the quarantine tank in case whatever it had been was still in my water. They didn’t show any signs of stress or illness. I added them to the main tank, and three weeks later all of them had died.

Worth noting I’ve kept CPDs in the past, my water is 7.4 pH GH 9 which is high but reasonable for CPDs, and my nitrates were rarely to 20 and never over 40ppm. Ammonia and Nitrites always 0.

Not too long after this my EDRs all started to die off. Not all at once, exactly, but it wasn’t old age because some I’d bred in my tank and were under a year old.

So that was devastating, but since most of my fish went months without showing any symptoms, except a couple brief and minor cases of cottonmouth in the kubotai rasboras, I figured everything was fine for species that were not CPDs/EDRs. I have read vague things on fishkeeping boards that other people also had issues with CPDs like there is a specific illness in that species, like Dwarf Gourami Disease, that affects some but not all fish, and some worse than others.

I haven’t really gotten any new fish species since those CPDs, though I did get some more kubotai rasboras and I did breed my WCMMs, until this spring when I got a male and female scarlet badis. I got the female about a month before the male, and they lived in the same tank (never had a sick fish in it and was an invert tank for months before I got the scarlet badis, but did share plants, nets, etc with other tanks) for a couple weeks before I moved the female in with the kubotais. They did great for the first two months I had them, but last week the female disappeared. It’s a reasonably heavy planted tank so I wasn’t too worried, but then the male (in a different tank!) grew a weird white abscess on his tail and I started to get worried. The female reappeared showing signs of dropsy, and the next day the male started showing signs of bloating, if not pineconing yet, as well. I treated the female with a salt bath, dosed both tanks with triple sulfa, and started feeding metroplex/focus soaked food. The female died the next day. I think the male is now pineconing, but I can’t get a great look at him.

I also noticed, when the female disappeared and I was looking extra closely at that tank, that my kubotais have slight cottonmouth again. Just like, one white spot on a couple fish’s mouths, but I’ve started treating for that again, and I’m not entirely sure how long it’s been happening and I might have just missed it because they were all swimming and eating fine, and it is still slight.

So, it’s possible that the CPD illness is a separate problem from what is happening to the scarlet badises, but i really feel like it’s the same thing. I’m not sure why it affects these species but never did my minnows or pencilfish or bettas, and why it wiped out the CPDs, causes cottonmouth but just that in kubotais, and seems to cause dropsy, potential lesion/abscess in the scarlet badises.

Right now I’m doing 10 days of API triple sulfa on all tanks with fish, as well as the medicated food with metroplex, and when I’m done with that I might do a few days of activated carbon and then start a round of kanamycin or something else as well. But I’m not sure how to ever know if my tanks are clear of the bacteria/virus, or what bacteria/virus I’m even treating for so I’m not sure if I’m picking the right medications.

Honestly from what I’ve read the illness most resembles fish TB, it matches best to the variety of bacterial illness symptoms my fish have had, and how it keeps happening, and how some species are affected and some aren’t. I know that’s really rare and it’s probably not fish TB, and if it is I’m really screwed. It’s likely it’s just some bacterial illness that isn’t one of the “common fish disease” illnesses that I can go read about, which is why it doesn’t quite fit anything like columnaris or gill flukes or anything else.

Anyway, so I guess my questions are:

If I do get all my fish to be symptom free (if the male SB pulls through, and the kubotais get clear of cottonmouth, the WCMM tank is the one the CPDs kept dying in but they’ve never shown any symptoms) can I ever assume the bacteria is gone at this point? Since I think it’s been 1.5 years of it existing in my tanks now?

If all the fish I have now are carriers, are my inverts probably carriers too? I have shrimp and snails in all my fish tanks, as well as a snail only tank and a shrimp cull tank, and the snails have been in fish tanks or shared equipment with them previously. So are they safe? Is there any way to know if they’re carriers?

I recently set up a tank with all new stuff, bleach dipped plant cuttings from other tanks to avoid pest snails but that means it should all be safe from bacteria in any other tanks, EXCEPT that I put inverts from other tanks in there. Do I have to assume that tank isn’t safe anymore?

Would a UV sterilizer possibly work to clear out the bacteria? I have like 8 tanks total and I don’t think I can afford that many UV sterilizers, but maybe I can just use one and rotate it around to get all my tanks back to normal, at least? Is that a thing?

If I do just have to give up and bleach everything, can I bleach my plants and driftwood sufficiently, or do I have to throw it all away, bleach the tank itself, and start over? Because if so I don’t have money to do that and rebuild my tanks like they are, so idk what to do with the surviving fish.

#fish #fishblr #that was long #sorry #tldr i think i have a mystery bacteria/virus affecting fish species differently in my tanks and idk what to do as far as treating/#disinfecting #since it seems to have been in my water for at least 1.5 years

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thetygre · 6 years

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30 Day Monster Challenge 2 - Day #24: Favorite ‘Monster’ Animal

This was kind of meant to be my list of favorite animals that are generally considered ‘creepy’ or ‘bizarre’. They might seem incredibly tame these day, but I still remember a time when things like pet snakes were ‘weird’, and I wanted to talk about them.

1. Giant Squid

My favorite animal. A real life sea monster. I never thought that I would actually see one in my lifetime, even with all our modern technology. After the first monster challenge, we got our first clear recording of a giant squid swimming in a Japanese bay. Just that footage told us so much about them; how they swim, what they look like moving, the shape of their tentacles and mantle. Being squid instead of octopi, it’s unlikely that the Architeuthis Dux is particularly intelligent. But even still, looking into that giant eye, I couldn’t help but wonder; how much is going on in there? Does it know who we are? When it swims in the darkness of the Abyssal Zone, in a place that has never seen sunlight, will it remember us? It’s an exciting time for squid chasers, that’s for sure.

2. Aye-Aye

The Aye Aye keeps making ‘weird animal’ lists, and I honestly don’t understand why. It’s adorable! It’s a kind of nocturnal lemur that specializes in eating tree grubs. There’s a lot of superstition surrounding the Aye Aye on Madagascar; it’s considered an unlucky animal, and its elongated middle finger is supposed to give bad luck. I have a fantasy book that starts on Not-Madagascar, and the lemur-folks’ corrupt priests are all Aye Ayes; the look so cute in their robes and wooden masks. The Aye Aye is just a scruffy, scraggly little tree goblin that wants to sleep all day and eat more bugs.

3. Anglerfish

A wise man, a man who I think tumblr knows relatively well, once sang a song about an anglerfish, and that song got me through some hard times. Anglerfish are absolutely fascinating animals; aside from their individual biological adaptations that are common across the whole family, each anglerfish is incredibly unique. They are an incredible example of evolutionary diversity, especially given that they live in such an unforgiving environment. It’s hard to pick a single favorite anglerfish; bearded, hairy, football, wolftrap, glass, etc. But I think there’s something to be said for the classic black sea devil; basic shape, killer name, and everything you could want out of an angler.

4. Spotted Hyena

I feel like hyenas are coming down from the ‘creepy/weird’ animal lists. The world is collectively realizing that hyenas are actually adorable, and do a lot more work than they’re given credit for. Even still, there’s something to admire in just how strange they are compared to other mammals. While they’re efficient predators in their own right, hyenas will always be known for being scavengers. And of course, there’s the folklore surrounding them; hyenas are witches’ familiars in West African superstition, and even medieval Europeans though of them as unnatural creatures in their bestiaries. But I’m glad that we can appreciated hyenas more fully now.

5. Vampire Bat

Our representative bat is still the standard bearer for the ‘spooky’ animals. It’s hard to tell how long bats have been associated with evil and darkness in certain cultures; even before vampires became tied to them, they were thought of as ‘night creatures’, and the ancient Mayans even had the chthonic bat god Camazotz. But the contrast is just so broad when you actually look at the vampire bat. For starts, they’re tiny, like all members of the microchiroptera family; the average vampire bat can fit in the palm of your hand. They live in groups, and they actually share the blood they drink with their young. Even still, the vampire bat has enough features to keep it weird; its dietary habits are still unusual for bats, it spends an inordinate amount of time walking on the ground compared to other chiroptera, and it has to be said, it still has a face like a feral goblin.

6. Ball Python

We now enter the ‘used in movies to represent more dangerous species but actually a cinnamon roll’ portion of the list. Ball pythons are definitely a favorite when it’s time to put a snake on camera; they can grow pretty big, and they look exotic enough to be mysterious. But like hyenas, I feel like enough people know at this point that your average ball python is about as threatening as a pair of socks. It’s always hilarious to me to see a ‘cunning’ or ‘dangerous’ snake get referenced and then the crew pulls out a python. What’s it gonna’ do; sleep at the hero to death? Out in the wild you still get the odd case of a constrictor getting the drop on someone, which is barely enough to edge pythons on the ‘man’s predators’ list, but even those cases are freakishly rare. In the end, pythons are your legless, furless alternative to the cat; sleepy, hungry, and in constant need of body heat.

7. Red Knee Tarantula

Every movie’s favorite spider is the red knee tarantula. Their big, they look dangerous, and they’re striking color scheme makes them stand out. Of course, tarantulas are one of the most harmless family of spiders to humans; they’re a terror to anything smaller than your finger, but generally safe for people. Their venom isn’t enough to kill or even seriously injure a person, though their giant mandibles still give a nasty pinch. Honestly, a person is probably more at risk from the stinging hairs tarantulas release as a defense mechanism than their bite. While all tarantulas are fuzzy and loveable, I’m still fondest of the Mexican red knee just for its Halloween color scheme.

8. Emperor Scorpion

Naturally, as a Scorpio, I feel some predisposition to scorpions. I always liked them a little bit more than spiders, and still think that they’re the cooler of the two arachnids. The scorpion is one of nature’s near-perfect animals, capable of surviving in the harshest of environments. They were earth’s first terrestrial predators, the original monsters, and hunted our ancestors in the prehistoric oceans. These days, you can buy them at your mall pet store for a pretty reasonable price and feed them crickets. The emperor scorpion is still my favorite species because of how big and bulky it is. Its venom is relatively harmless because its claws have evolved to tear through the armor of its prey, though to us it’s just a nasty pinch. The whole goth-lobster package is offset by a pair of cute beady eyes looking up at you, begging you to have mercy on your species’ old nemesis and not stomp on it so it can scuttle away.

9. Black Vulture

It was a tough call in the bird department, but I feel like corvids and owls have gotten enough love now that we can start focusing on vultures. Vultures have an uphill battle, because stupid, ignorant people can’t appreciate how cool having anti-bacterial acid urine really is. Vultures are synonymous with barren places, true animals of the waste. They’re scavengers down to a ‘t’, and the go-to example for why scavengers are important to any ecosystem. While the Egyptian vulture is the most ‘vulturish’ and the bearded vulture the most MAJESTIC, my personal favorite is the good old black vulture. Black vultures have been in some weird and interesting places in my life, to the point that I’m starting to think of them as some kind of omen. An omen that says, “Oh boy, I get to see a vulture today!”

10. Xoloitzcuntli Dog

So the xolo dog takes bottom place by virtue of being a dog, and therefore a spiritually pure being inhabiting an earthly vessel to guide mankind towards goodness. These days, xolos are pretty popular, but I remember a time when Americans generally didn’t know about them by and large. When they first showed up in American media, they were labeled as ‘the world’s ugliest dog’, and I remember a few people wondering if they had mange or were pictures of chupacabras. With social media, everybody now knows that xolos are adorable, if still kind of comparatively weird looking, canine friends.

#30 Day Monster Challenge 2 #30 Day Monster Challenge #animals #oh lord i'm so far behind

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madisonalvarez1992 · 4 years

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How Long To Cure Bacterial Vaginosis Marvelous Tricks

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