Alright so long story short, I had a 40 gallon aquarium with guaranteed fish tuberculosis (mycobacterium marinum), and I dumped everything out towards the end of the summer: tank, filter, decor, bucket, hose, everything except some food and the stand. I replaced the tank and everything and started fresh, and bought a juvenile blood parrot, and another one along with a Siamese algae eater about a month after I bought the blood parrot. All 3 fish lived happily until last week.
Oddly enough the blood parrot that was introduced a month after the first one had died without clear indications of TB on its body, but the big pointer is that neither blood parrot grew even a centimeter since they were introduced, and it's been almost half a year, feeding at least once a day. The SAE is growing steadily but is slowing down. Judging by the SAE's normal swimming patterns I assume he is fine at the moment.
By now I am beginning to see the remaining blood parrots stomach somewhat begin to thin out, but I'm not quite 100% certain. Although his stomach isn't inverted or caved in like many of my past cases in the old tank, in general I notice that his stomach is very lacking in mass and is flat, and not rounded out. He is also beginning to swim in a very distinct way that infected hosts swim in; a sort of uncomfortable awkward pattern that's very hard to describe and differentiate from regular swimming patterns until you observe the two side by side.
Either way I am definitely planning to bathe the tank. There are only 2 fish left anyway in a spacious 40 gallon, so I don't have much to lose. I'm planning on running a combo of both liquid baby vitamin B-6 and Kanamycin. I've seen a surprising amount of posts with positive results from Kanamycin regarding treatment of fish TB, some saying that the drug worked so well it cured the bacteria despite the spinal and structural damage it's already done, leaving the fish healthy but deformed.
Just want anyone whose treated or has experience with bacterial infections to give their thoughts, and if you think you have a better medicinal recommendation, Id definitely love to hear it. Thanks
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Oddly enough the blood parrot that was introduced a month after the first one had died without clear indications of TB on its body, but the big pointer is that neither blood parrot grew even a centimeter since they were introduced, and it's been almost half a year, feeding at least once a day. The SAE is growing steadily but is slowing down. Judging by the SAE's normal swimming patterns I assume he is fine at the moment.
By now I am beginning to see the remaining blood parrots stomach somewhat begin to thin out, but I'm not quite 100% certain. Although his stomach isn't inverted or caved in like many of my past cases in the old tank, in general I notice that his stomach is very lacking in mass and is flat, and not rounded out. He is also beginning to swim in a very distinct way that infected hosts swim in; a sort of uncomfortable awkward pattern that's very hard to describe and differentiate from regular swimming patterns until you observe the two side by side.
Either way I am definitely planning to bathe the tank. There are only 2 fish left anyway in a spacious 40 gallon, so I don't have much to lose. I'm planning on running a combo of both liquid baby vitamin B-6 and Kanamycin. I've seen a surprising amount of posts with positive results from Kanamycin regarding treatment of fish TB, some saying that the drug worked so well it cured the bacteria despite the spinal and structural damage it's already done, leaving the fish healthy but deformed.
Just want anyone whose treated or has experience with bacterial infections to give their thoughts, and if you think you have a better medicinal recommendation, Id definitely love to hear it. Thanks
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