Unlabelled Aquariums - I see your seahorse hunting. I give you my turtle hunting a cricket

June 09, 2021
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Aquariums - I see your seahorse hunting. I give you my turtle hunting a cricket

I see your seahorse hunting. I give you my turtle hunting a cricket

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:50 AM PDT

Started breeding guppies a few months ago. Here is one of my homebred guppies!

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:15 AM PDT

Petting Tater for the fist time with a cotton swab !!

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:44 AM PDT

Finally managed to get a shot of my Blue Phantom Pleco after months of trying! Meet Gaston.

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:01 AM PDT

Aren't they lovely?

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:07 AM PDT

I put a single sinking pellet in for the Corys, but the entire tank came over to have a snack

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:40 AM PDT

I raise you my Alligator Snapper named Cricket hunting a minnow.

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 07:18 AM PDT

On my third try on identifying this little guy, he keeps changing!! (Does have a labyrinth organ, used to look like a juvenile Betta)

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:06 AM PDT

Images of my aquarium to go with my most recent post about diatom bloom (if anyone knows how to treat it?)

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 04:13 AM PDT

Symptoms of Camallanus Worms in otherwise healthy fish: my experience

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:26 AM PDT

I thought it might be good to post this just in case it helps anyone else identify this parasite when it isn't showing any obvious symptoms. This is a parasite that can take a long time to show, so it can get through quarantine unless you are quarantining for many many months.

So, some of my tanks have been infested with Camallanus Worms for months without me realising due to the vast majority of the fish not displaying most of the usual symptoms of infection. Only today did I ever see a fish in one tank (a betta) with the red spikes coming out of the anus, or white stringy poo, and I had suspected something was slightly off and been keeping an eye out for any sign of them for months. But it definitely is them, as within hours of treating the tanks with poultry dewormer, the worms began to be expelled from the fish.

Until yesterday I actually hadn't had a fish die in months. The last one was near the start of the year, where a fish that had been born in my tank and never grown to full size, slowly declined and died despite no distinctive symptoms except colour loss and the fact I treated for bacteria and fungal infections and protozoan parasites. I was concerned but that fish had been ill for a long time without symptoms so I thought it must be a congenital defect or similar. Then yesterday, a 10-year-old black kuhli loach died seemingly of a minor scrape it had sustained months ago, that wouldn't seem to heal despite treatment and perfect water parameters. I thought the reason it was taking so long to heal was because the loach was old. But now I realise the true reason for the lack of healing (and probably death as the injury was pretty small) was that it was weakened by the worm infestation.

My other infected fish have been active and eating, growing significantly and even breeding despite the infection. I can only assume this is because, other than the worms, they are all healthy and in good conditions. This has been the case even for sensitive species like German Blue Rams.

The earlier the parasite is treated the greater the likelihood you can save the fish. So here is a list of the small things that seemed 'slightly off' over a long period before I discovered the cause:

- Certain sensitive species (like Blue Rams) stopped breeding very often, while other fish continued to breed.

- A slight red tinge around the anus of some types of fish (but so slight that it could be normal depending on fish colouring, or due to red pigment in their food).

- Fish born in the tank that don't quite grow to full size or colour up as well as their parents.

- Slight dark discolouration on the fins of a couple of fish (can be very hard to see on dark coloured fish).

- Lowered immune system. Any minor scratches and bumps on fish (from rocks or wood or anything) that would usually heal within days or barely be noticeable at all don't seem to fully heal, and in some rare cases actually get very slowly worse despite no visible fungal or bacterial infection. Treatment of these infections might still result in improvement, but not as permanently or quickly as it would otherwise.

- Flashing, very occasionally.

- Fish that are usually peaceful becoming a bit more irritable with tankmates.

-No medication for bacterial, fungal or protozoan parasite issues does very much (as it is only treating secondary symptoms, not the real cause).

And that's it! Hope it helps in case anyone else's fish contracts a hard-to-identify case of these awful things.

I'm 90% sure I got them from some fish (with a tank) I was unexpectedly given, and then it spread to other tanks because I moved some floating plants between them (I never usually share equipment between tanks and am careful to disinfect water buckets etc.)

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One month since I’ve had the new gal (or boy), and the progress. Captioned pictures.

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:08 AM PDT

My Dwarf from coming out of his little home in the morning

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:06 PM PDT

First tank ever! 15 gallon vertical, wouldn't have been my first choice of size but it was given to me for free

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 07:43 AM PDT

Nomnomnom

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:21 PM PDT

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