hey guys i havent posted in a while but you may have remembered me from last year when i was posting about tuberculosis killing everything in my tank. basically fish tb started killing all of my fish, including fancy expensive ones and a fish i even raised from birth which i had a lot of attachment to. i spent a lot of money on medication but nothing worked. i ended up having to euthanize all of my fish, around the same time of last year. i also had to replace ALL of my equipment, the 40 gallon tank, the filter, gravel, everything save the stand.
i started fresh around this time last year and bought 2 blood parrots and an algae eater. one died in around december to an unknown cause, but i noticed that the other one wasnt growing. the algae eater also wasnt growing, and i started getting worried as this lack of growth is the same symptom of tb i had been dealing with from the past. but considering the odds of somehow getting tb in my new tank after already having it in my old one seemed so improbable, i didnt think much of it. i went and bought a $150 upgraded filter, and carried on.
then the algae eater started thinning out, and then it dropped dead, with the same exact looking carcass as all of the other victims ive dealt with in the past. and now my last remaining blood parrot is starting to thin out, with still absolutely no growth since i bought him. for the life of me i will never understand how i got tb a second time, but thats the final straw.
you win, tb. all and all i must have spent over $1500 for the hobby and built a bunch of attachments to my fish, only for them to be crushed relentlessly by this incurable disease. i spent $20 a week on kanamycin and neomycin antibiotics but nothing worked. and now i have to sit and watch my last blood parrot slowly die.
ive always loved fish since i was an infant, but i never knew one infernal disease could ruin so much. i have not felt quite such emotion in a long time. all i wanted was a simple hobby. im done with fish forever
