Re: [RML] P. cyanodorsalis revisited

Mach T. Fukada (fukada at aloha.net)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:20:51

Mine are definitly goitre. No whitish cream gorwth. I was more hoping
that they would learn to eat their vergetable and get iodine that way. One
odd thought is that they are do seem to eat spirulina flakes and the
mixtures of natureosa spirulina and otehr goodies. I am hoping I can see
an enhancement of the yellow and orange colors. I have been told that the
caudal fin's accents can be red or orange...

MTF

>My understanding of goitre is that its under the gill plate and as its grows
>it actually lifts the gill plate higher and higher. When you look at the
>fish headfirst, you can plainly see that the gill plate is really out of
>place. The problem I had with them is what you have explained that being a
>whitish cream "bulbous" growth that eventually covers their mouth or sort of
>grows on the lower side of the throat?
>
>One of the easy way to add iodine is to use iodised salt!
>
>Adrian.
>
> Adrian R. Tappin
> "Home of the Rainbowfish"
> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
>
>
Mach T. Fukada, Editor
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