>Do you think only one fish would be affected and be otherwise acting
>normally if it was Vibriosis or Aeromonas infection ?
Hello Bruce,
Isn't there a possibility that the fish injured itself and lost some scales?
For example 'romper' fish like koi sometimes have some lost scales and the
flesh beneath is pink like was described. With normal health and water
conditions scales grow back without complications.
With which I don't mean to say that it isn't mycobacteriosis, just isn't
the flesh pink in rainbows when a scale is lost due to an accident?
Speaking of mycobacteriosis:
There is an ongoing discussion on the Aquaria Central bulletin board
about how mycobacteriosis can be transferred to humans, somebody explained
how this is possible without (visible) skin breaks. (It was argued how
mycobacterium only needs a hair follicle opening to enter)
I've read as much as I could about mycobacteriosis (including Adrian's
article, which is great btw), but never heard of this, can this be true?
If anyone is interested, the thread is at
www.aquariacentral.com/discussion/Forum1/HTML/002608.html
Best regards,
Hugo Hoekstra