[Killietalk] mystery condition

[Alberto Restrepo Ubach <restrepo at sandiego_edu>]

Since the list has been pretty quiet, and Ron has set the tone for 
discussing fish diseases (or at least fish 'afflictions') I thought I 
would finally get around to asking about the following condition:  I 
have a hatch of Fp. spoorenbergi in which a few of the females show 
dark blotches on the body.  The pattern of these blotches if fairly 
irregular, and they are not distributed evenly on both sides of the 
body. They almost look like black ink stains.  They don't seem to 
affect the growth or vitality of the fish.  Anyway, this may be 
something normal, something that you have seen before, or something 
with a simple explanation, but  since I have never seen or heard of 
it, I thought I would ask.

I have posted a few pictures of one of the fish at the following link:

http://members.cox.net/arestrepo/Fishstuff/spoorenbergi_female.html

The pictures are a little dark and out-of-focus, but hopefully they 
will give you a sense of what I'm talking about.

Thanks.

Alberto
San Diego
AKA 08000
SDKG/SCKC

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