Treating Frontosa cichlids with Hexamita aka "Malawi bloat"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2021
- In this video we treat a shoal of Frontosa Cichlids infected with Hexamita. Hexamita is a flagellated protozoal parasite that commonly infects the intestines in many species of fish, especially African Rift Lake Cichlids. The disease can cause bloating of the gut which is why it is sometimes commonly referred to as "Malawi bloat". Hexamita can also cause white poorly formed faeces. A rare presentation of hexamitiasis is shown in this investigation with a fish developing rectal prolapse. We show you how we diagnose and use the different forms of metronidazole to treat against Hexamita in aquarium fish.
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My grandpa was a veterinarian, it’s a lot more complex than some people realize. Much respect thank you for the new video
So glad to see you in another video Doc; its been a while. Hope all is well with you and family :)
Glad to see another video, Dr.
Glad to see a new video doctor
Welcome back! This field is so interesting already and your videos are a great view into a rarely seen section of it
Welcome back doc. great video as always
I got into this hobby recently and I really enjoy your videos. Its sad really when I saw your last videos uploaded was a year ago. I hope you are more active in uploading new videos since you are back.
Awesome vid as usual, Dr Loh. Thank you
I appreciate your videos. Thank you Dr. Loh.
Very well done doc .amazing work to save the life of those lovely fish
Great job Doc!
Great video! I really enjoyed it and had no idea their intestine could do that! amazing work. You have such a delicate touch - that procedure needed someone with great skill. KUDOS!!.
I'll enjoy watching and learn from my role model.
Please show an update on the fish , cool video . Im always interested to see different treatments on sick fish
Yay a new video
Love your videos👍🏼
Great and informative video my friend... Thanks for sharing!!!
I'm so glad there's a nother one I've decided I'm gonna be a vet after watching your videos
Great video doc. Thanks for the fish bandage powder, worked great on my goldy and made a full recovery :)
You need to make more videos more often. Really interesting. Great videos will you be giving an update on these fish?
Great video!
Thank you for the video 🌷
Beautiful cichlids, so interesting
Thank you so much doctor 🌹
Wow ..
Impressive..thanks for sharing this video Doc..
Wow fantastic these are so interesting
Great job, would love to see a follow up on these fish 😊💕
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Was literally holding my breath there in some parts
Awesome
Fantastic videos. Always very informative.
I had a few questions
1. What type of water test kit do you use/recommend ?
2. I’ve primarily only ever seen metro in powder form. As per instructions on bottle they say to do daily water changes. Is that necessary? Does the medication have any affect on the tanks nitrifying bacteria?
Thank you for sharing these videos. Not a vet or anything near that myself. But I feel like I always get a better understanding.
Just found out your channel, loved it and watched 10 of them today! :P May I know why is the application of the medication to be injected (into bloodstream or stomach?) instead of being force-feed orally since the Hexamita are in the digestive system? Wouldn't injection be more invasive... and if it's injection into bloodstream how would it help?
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Great video. I often crush metronidazole and feed to discus as a wormer. Great video.. will you do a follow up video on these frontosa 😉
It’s funny going through my fish vet books and seeing this guys name pop up everywhere xD
Such a gentle and practiced hand. Love your videos. Would love to see more.
I have a flowerhorn with hexamita. I have dosed his tank with metronidazole and water changes over 6weeks, finally after no more mucusy white poop. He still won't eat. I have given food through a tube and his energy is better. He still won't eat on his own. Water parameters are perfect except tons of ammonia so I do 75% water change. Ammonia goes to zero then it comes back heavy in 2 days. 55gal tank, 1, 6 inch fish.....continue meds? Thoughts? Watch and wait? Thanks.
Your water parameters are far from perfect if you have ammonia present in the tank. High readings of ammonia is lethal to fish. Sounds like your tank is not cycled.
@@obsessivecichliddisorder7258 it was cycled. I was wondering if a sick fish put our more waste. Perhaps the meds crashed the cycle along with multiple water changes. IDK.
Please upload a video about treating dropsy
Excellent video thanks Doc more please 👍🇬🇧
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What is the best way to ensure your tools don't damage the fish? I have a small shubunkin goldfish who has recently gotten some issues with eating. She is otherwise normal but spends long times "chewing" her food. Most of the time, a lot of the food is spat back out after this attempted chewing. I feel she has something lodged in her throat, and came looking for a anaesthetic method so I can look down her throat, in her gills, etc. I am worried about using metal tools such as tweezers or any pointed ones, because I worry about cutting or damaging her. She also developed a white filmy looking area on her head this morning that I can't quite identify, but is not consistent with ich. She's been quarantined with esha 2000, exit and gdex (separately) and her tank is cycled. There are no aquatic vets near me at all (I called them all, the vets couldn't even suggest somewhere to look). I'm planning to see what I can find anaesthetic-wise tomorrow, so I can avoid further issues. But I'm still worried about hurting her because she seems small and fragile. I've looked through lots of the Dr's videos, but am still very nervous about taking matters into my own hands. Another goldfish is finished quarantine and ready to join her in the main tank, but I'm holding off until I feel she is healthy.
Please help if you can! Thanks!
I have domestic discus with white stringy poo and stopped eating. I even lost one. I dewormed with flubendazole and praziquantel. Still ongoing issues. I don't have a microscope to look at the feces, so my next guess is hexamita. I cannot inject my fish but read/heard from discus experts that treating the tank with 1 gram/20 gallons for 10 consecutive days will treat hexamita. Others say 1 gram/10 gallons. I have a 120 gallon tank with a 20 gallon sump. It's a lot of metronidazole. Can you provide advice?
Fish Doctor- I have a stressed rescue Betta who is lethargic, may have some Gill burn and looks somewhat bloated. Can I still use the 5 grams per liter sodium chloride to reduce osmo regulatory stress and if so for how long at a time? Hours or days maybe? Thank you in advance.
Can Metronidazole and Oxytetracycline be used together to treat discus fish having fin rot and internal parasites (white feces)?
great!
i intend to medicate my main tank (400gallon aquarium) estimate of 40tablets (500g per table) of Metronidazole
is the metronidazole safe for biological filter? if yes, i will just use it while filter running (removing carbon filters/uv/etc.)
I thought metro dissipates within 8 hours or so, so you have to daily dose? Also, how come levamisole can be added to the water for roundworms, yet the metro had to be injected for these spironucleus? Does one absorb better than the other?
Hi doc......... my iridescent shark has got a foam eye like thing and struggling a lot plz reply on what I should to
i have liquid metronidazole (suspension liquid) for our dog - could i use this for my frontosa? tube feed directly into stomach? my Fish is same size as the one you treated - not sure how much to give him?
How’d the treatment turn out
Sir for regular deworming can we use Metrogyl IV or tabletd
My giant gourami is sick. He looks fine but occasionally he coughs violently. He also swims erratically from one end to the other of the tank and starts twitching. Pls let me know if you know what could be possibly wrong with him 🙏
sir I have a kamfa FLOWER HORN .He eats well but donot swim from lastfew weeks . And i noticed that he have some bleeding or reddish patch on his ventral position and fin roots. what should I do now? please help me.
Hello, sir i have one pet fish she has some extra skin down bellow near her belly. So how to cut it or it will remain the same!
Do you treat land hermit crabs in addition to fish? I've never heard of a veterinarian who treats land hermit crabs. Have you ever heard of such a vet?
What is the Dose for Metronidazol inside the water?
How old can you deworm the gold fish
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Im Bangladesh i m facing my guppy became thin and after treat labamisol, garlic soac food, metronidazol but fish not responding. After treatment there spine srink and died. That to do brother?
Hi doc ! I was searching for a shark eye swollen up in red n ended up in watching all your videos. I shifted my shark n other fishes to a tub to Clean the tank and I heard a sudden noise as if it(shark) bashed itself i peeped and my shark's eye is swollen and it's red in colour as if blood clot . I'm so scared right now. He's one big boy . Doc can you please tell me what's the cause of this?
Someone give me advice ASAP!
So I bought 4 small cichlids the other day and put them in my 4ft tank with my bigger cichlids.3 of them seemed to be doing just fine and the bigger ones haven't been chasing them.But 1 of them is the smallest and today I saw that my bigger cichlid swallowed him half way through.We pulled him out and saw that he is still very much alive.I seperated him for now.Is there anyway I can help him recover from the trauma?
Was the tail bitten off or not? I had a firemouth get his tail bitten off. He didn't last more than another 10 minutes. This was during feeding time.
@@zafishguy5166Unfortunately he lasted for only 12 hours.I think because I had him in a bucket and that was a complete new water.So sad
I noticed few pimples on my flowerhorn fish head, one eye got blind and not eating pellets at all. Please guide me sir
Does hexamita die without fish in the tank?
Please help my cichlids have white pus but always had a little bit of white pus coming out of their gills. I went back to when I first bought the fish and it was a little bit but now the fish turned kind of white in color and my red parrot is getting lighter and her gills look funny. I did put them in a big 150 gallon coming from a 55. She's always hiding and he's kind of hiding too. And when I took a picture it looks like white worms coming out of their gills. There's so many different diseases and I don't know what to do. Please let me know. They are literally my babies. I love them so much. I want to find the right medicine to cure this if I can
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I feel sorry for them being wild caught . Aren’t they easy to breed in captivity ?
I am from India... How can I contact you?
Tablets in the blender for few secs does the trick.
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He does fish, not ducks.
Don't ever buy wild caught fish. End of x