Fear of Disease...

[Johnny Zhivago]

So let's say that:

Hypothetically, my del were to eat one of my clown loaches that I suspected had skinny disease.

Should I be worried? (All hypothetical, of course haha)

 

[iloveoscars702]

skinny disease?

 

[Cakilla]

skinny disease?

I have never heard of that before

 

[iloveoscars702]

same here... are you sure your feeding your fish?

 

[Johnny Zhivago]

Skinny disease is another name for nematodes--here is the mfk sticky regarding the condition (from the loach forum): http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204906

And yes, I do, in fact feed my fish, though new to the world of monster fish keeping I may be. Perhaps this question would be more suited for the general disease forum...

 

[King-eL]

I don't think the bichir will get the disease as with other protein sources it will just gain from that. Also BTW why would you mix fish together when you suspected that the loach have the certain disease? Should you be removing it and quarantine that loach.