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RE: [Killietalk] Help! SJOs with dropsy?
Hi Ronnie:
I have little time to go into detail so here's the nickel tour.
If It's dropsy the fish look like a pine cone from above. Scales seem to
pull away from the body.
Treat with Kanamiacin (strongest safe dosage). The fish that already have
the symptoms will usually not recover. But you have a chance to stop the
spread. Many of the fish that look fine now are infected. Of this I have no
doubt. The infection is in the tank and any very likely in other tanks that
have not been quarantined from the sick tank.
Respectfully, I need to disagree with Lee. This is a very contagious
disease. But the onset of the condition is very very slow. In my experience
the disease will resurface after weeks or even several months until it is
finally eradicated.
I had it some years back. It came back every few months usually striking
only one fish at a time. A heavy handed treatment with Kanamiacin finally
put an end to it. In the best case, the fish showing the symptoms eventually
died a few weeks after treatment, I had none recover. But none of the
remaining fish took ill and the infection never resurfaced.
I am not sure that your dropsy has the same cause as mine. Therefore my cure
may not work for you. But it is worth a shot. On the other hand, keep in
mind that this condition seems to remain dormant for a very long time. So it
is very easy to spread from one aquarium to another. The removed one fish
from the sick tank before treatment, it died months later from causes
unknown leaving behind a few fry that grew to maturity in the same tank. One
of those fry got dropsy. The time delay was almost a year and a generation
of fish. I treated that tank too and the disease was finally gone from my
home. My oversight could have been very costly if I had moved those fry to
larger quarters or accidentally broken my usual tank to tank quarantine
procedures.
Peace,
~RJ~
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:killietalk-bounces+tranquilitybase=netzero_net at aka.org]On Behalf
Of Ron @ FAR EAST
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:36 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] Help! SJOs with dropsy?
Dear all,
My young SJOs, between 2~3cm, are acting funny... kinda like 'stoned',
with eyes bulging somewhat, and looking like they have Down's syndrome.
I've taken some pics and hopefully someone can give me a clearer idea of
what I'm dealing with. If it's dropsy, what actually causes it and is
it terminal? What about remedies?
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/fishz/SJO/SJOdropsyS.JPG
closer look at the head, esp the scales
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/fishz/SJO/SJOdropsyHead.JPG
There a 5watter UV running 24/7 in my re-circulating system and if
dropsy is caused by bacteria, how is it that the bact didn't get
zapped? I've isolated the SJOs in case the suspected dropsy is
infectious (or is that urban myth?).
TIA for any assistance.
Regards,
Ronnie Lee
Singapore
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