Mid and bottom posted.
Mister Gardener wrote:
I've read that pet stores that chronically have fish that die when you
get them home have one or more tanks with Fish TB. And it's wicked
stubborn to get rid of in a pet store setting. My LFS was having
trouble keeping certain sensitive species in some of his tanks and I
mentioned the TB article I had read. He mumbled that he already knew
that and guessed it was time to take some tanks off line and put his
employee to work doing thorough "sterilization" on those tanks. As
with some other stubborn pathogens, "TB" can go unnoticed until a
sensitive or immune-compromised species as added to the tank. Which
can mean a lot of species that have recently been shipped from a mass
production farm.
I've been meaning to ask - - what do people use for a net dip solution?
A product called net soak is sold for this - I think the brand is jungle.
I've read that simple air drying is effective, but I don't know . . .
MG
Frank Bayne wrote:
*From:* Tynk <ty...@aol.com>
On Sep 22, 9:39 pm, Frank Bayne <frankr...@sbcglobal.net
<mailto:frankr...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
.........mid posted..........
I had fish TB hit my tanks years back.
It was horrible. I had to watch a few breeding pairs of angels die,
along with the rest of the fish I had. Some I had to euthanize myself.
It was so hard to put down the last mated pair. They were mine that I
bred, they were the prized perfect pair...and I had to kill them or
let them suffer.
*First time I saw fish TB, it wiped out all the fish in our first store.
That's when you learn the net your using goes into some kind of 'net
dip'
before it goes into another tank. The disease lasted about a month
before
we decided to euthanize the remaining 1/3rd of the fish still in the
tanks and
and start over. And you think you had a tear in your eye - we opened
or first
store with right at 400 tanks of fish! I _still_ go through "tearing
up" when I
think back upon it, and that was 40+ years ago! I was young and had
every
penny I could come up with in that store. Needless to say, we had the
largest
tropical fish store in St. Louis at the time that wasn't a wholesale
house, with
sick fish for a month, and no fish for another month, tiring to come
up with
enough money to buy another shipment of fish - took darn near that
long to
disinfect everything. On top of that, over half our staff walked out
on us,
because it was a disease called - - - - - - T B ! They, our staff,
came back,
_after_ we had everything disinfected and they seen we were still
alive. If I
could have gotten away with killing somebody, that and when my first
wife -
- - - - never mind, won't go there.
I was changed after TB ran through my tanks.
I, an angel breeder, couldn't even bring myself to buy new stock and
start over. It took me years before I could even look at them in shops
without tearing up.
At the time it hit my tanks there we didn't the internet. = O
Doesn't that sound so odd now a days, hehe.
I couldn't find any real info out there, and our library didn't have
enough books on fish diseases.
*Second time around, it ended up being anggelfish aids, or whatever
they ended up calling it. I had stopped breeding angelfish and had
sold my
breeders the year before. But, we still had the pet stores. By then,
we had
opened our 4th or 5th store. Angelfish aids had the same symptoms as
fish
TB, but only infected angelfish. We had a 100 gal. show tank behind the
counter with a dozen fair sized angelfish in it when the angelfish
aids hit. I got
a jump on the disease, thinking it was fish TB again, killed all the
fish in the tank
and disinfected it. Within a few days, angelfish in all of our stores
were dying or
dead, along with all the other stores in town. By that time, I had
dumped another
dozen tanks of fish, thinking it was fish TB. By the time I found out
it wasn't
fish TB again, I had pulled half the hair out of my head! ..........Frank
By the way - my friend's betta is doing great now - the culprit was that
he was feeding him a common betta flake food and it always floated on
the surface for a long time and the betta would eat those flakes and the
air that was on the flake’s topside kind of clinging to the top (dry)
part of the flake, so the betta was eating both the flake and air and
that made him slightly bloated and caused him to float uncontrollably
(the air in his stomach caused him to do this). So the fix? He bought a
pellet betta food called betta bites and he has never had any more
problems since switching. I do wonder if that is a chronic (not much
health related) problem with bettas and thought I would share the fix
with everyone to help solve other peoples problems (it seems like I read
about bettas having this problem all of the time). Good luck all and later!
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