Re: [RML] Dark half or quarter on rainbowfish

David Wilson (rwilson at taunet.net.au)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:00:59 -1000

Adrian and Harro
The sooty grunter is in a very large aquarium with many fish that are not
replaceable so if mycobacteriosis is found in that aquarium all that will
happen is that specimens that show signs of the disease will be removed.
The aquarium with mycobacteriosis of three years ago was small and the fish
were only rainbowfish so were expendable. The signs are back on the sooty
grunter so we are going to euthanase the fish on tuesday so the Vets can to
do their PM.

Dave Wilson

>Adrian Tappin schrieb:
>> G'day Dave,
>> At 06:54 31/12/98 +0930, you wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks for that answer,(I missed the earlier discussion) next time the
>> >sooty grunter gets the dark quarter (for id purposes) I'll catch it out and
>> >sent it to Berrimah Animal Research Centre and ask them to check for
>> >mycobacteriosis. We had confirmed mycobacteriosis in one aquarium about
>> >three years ago so I sterilised it and everything nearby. Will let you
>> >know results.
>>
>> It would be interesting to know if the rainbowfishes with this problem are
>> wild-caught and if so how long they have been in captivity before showing
>> this condition. I have often wondered if the rainbowfishes carry the
>> bacteria in the wild.
>>
>> Also if you can spare the Sooty for pathology testing it may still be
>> carrying the bug and is a threat to all other inhabitants. Apparently
>> Mycobacteria have a specific range of temperatures where they do best and
>> Darwin's temperature is certainly within that range.
>>
>> Adrian.
>>
>> Adrian R. Tappin
>> "Home of the Rainbowfish"
>> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
>>
>
>Hi Adrian,
>
>a scientist, whose name I've forgotten, wrote, that the fish was the
>animal with
>the most number of diseases occuring naturally, i.e. in natural populations.
>
>Best regards
>
>Harro Hieronimus, Solingen, Germany
>harro.hieronimus at t-online.de
>
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