Hello from my fish room channel in Chicago, where I am a subscriber to yours. It is most disheartening (and morbidly interesting) that on top of the sick fish all of your effort, time and resources yielded results that are at best inconclusive. It begs so many questions, one of which is "doing nothing" a better approach than all the work and cost it takes to treat? I often just up the water change, feed less and, if necessary, cull. The mysterious ailment goes away as often as not.
@@LushSaltyAquariums Hello from Ontario! Fishkeeping really is unique in how it disregards disease, and I suppose that it’s just because of how cheap a replacement is in comparison to treatment. I guess I’m prompted to keep digging into research because I find it interesting to explore undiscovered avenues, but I also really do get attached to my fish and want them to be healthy if it is at all in my power. An ember tetra is sick? I may try medicating, but their lives are already so short that I often just see if it worsens or not - and sometimes they live for years more! Now if it’s a sick twig catfish, Bolivian ram, or something similar I’m taking it seriously. Such fish are rare, expensive, long-lived or extremely personable and complex in their personalities; losing fish like these would be like losing a dog or a cat for me, and their maintained health is the core reason for my research.
Fish diseases are so frustrating because some can be so difficult to diagnose, and without diagnosis, treatments are just guesswork. My guess at what is going on with your dwarf neon rainbowfish is Mycobacteriosis ("fish tuberculosis"). Rainbows are notoriously susceptible to it and it can cause a huge range of symptoms depending on where the bacteria are located in the body. I have had it in dwarf neon rainbowfish and there is no treatment. That said, a UV sterilizer can slow or stop the transmission of it.
I hear fish TB thrown around so often that it starts to become white noise. I think I mentioned that this was the only diagnosis I could find online however, so I guess that’s 2 votes now haha Did yours show similar “snot” symptoms?
@@MattKeepsFish No, they did not have the snot. The one symptom in your fish that looks very much like "classic" fish TB is the popeye in only one eye, where it appears there is a tumor causing that eye to pop out. Tumors in rainbowfish say Mycobacteriosis to me.
@@MattKeepsFish I guess that is possible. Visible tumors was what my dwarf neon rainbows showed, which I presume was mycobacteriosis. These started as barely noticeable bumps under the skin.
Hello from my fish room channel in Chicago, where I am a subscriber to yours. It is most disheartening (and morbidly interesting) that on top of the sick fish all of your effort, time and resources yielded results that are at best inconclusive. It begs so many questions, one of which is "doing nothing" a better approach than all the work and cost it takes to treat? I often just up the water change, feed less and, if necessary, cull. The mysterious ailment goes away as often as not.
@@LushSaltyAquariums Hello from Ontario!
Fishkeeping really is unique in how it disregards disease, and I suppose that it’s just because of how cheap a replacement is in comparison to treatment.
I guess I’m prompted to keep digging into research because I find it interesting to explore undiscovered avenues, but I also really do get attached to my fish and want them to be healthy if it is at all in my power.
An ember tetra is sick? I may try medicating, but their lives are already so short that I often just see if it worsens or not - and sometimes they live for years more!
Now if it’s a sick twig catfish, Bolivian ram, or something similar I’m taking it seriously. Such fish are rare, expensive, long-lived or extremely personable and complex in their personalities; losing fish like these would be like losing a dog or a cat for me, and their maintained health is the core reason for my research.
Interesting
Fish diseases are so frustrating because some can be so difficult to diagnose, and without diagnosis, treatments are just guesswork. My guess at what is going on with your dwarf neon rainbowfish is Mycobacteriosis ("fish tuberculosis"). Rainbows are notoriously susceptible to it and it can cause a huge range of symptoms depending on where the bacteria are located in the body. I have had it in dwarf neon rainbowfish and there is no treatment. That said, a UV sterilizer can slow or stop the transmission of it.
I hear fish TB thrown around so often that it starts to become white noise. I think I mentioned that this was the only diagnosis I could find online however, so I guess that’s 2 votes now haha
Did yours show similar “snot” symptoms?
@@MattKeepsFish No, they did not have the snot. The one symptom in your fish that looks very much like "classic" fish TB is the popeye in only one eye, where it appears there is a tumor causing that eye to pop out. Tumors in rainbowfish say Mycobacteriosis to me.
So strange that only one was affected though. What about the darkened parts of the body? Mycobacteriosis destroying the skin beneath the scales maybe?
@@MattKeepsFish I guess that is possible. Visible tumors was what my dwarf neon rainbows showed, which I presume was mycobacteriosis. These started as barely noticeable bumps under the skin.
It's annoying when fish get sick