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Jozlyn
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Hmmm, that was an interesting article, which I will forward to my LFS as the owner has asked me for more information. I did a lot of searching a week or so ago and couldn't find anything that was written in English! Everything I found was written in "Science", which didn't mean a lot to me.
I wont be getting any more when this guy passes away, I'm sure I'll find something else that I like just as much.
He's still hanging in there, eating and swimming well, chasing the guppies occasionaly, but the tumour has probably doubled in size now.
It is also interesting that the article says
"A follow-up study, which has just been published by Richard Whittington and Jeffrey Go in the journal Aquaculture, has shown that the Dwarf gourami iridovirus can be spread from infected fish through the water"
I'm guessing that that means a full tank breakdown and disinfection to ensure that if I did get another healthy Dwarf Gourami that it didn't get the virus that's now in the water. There was nothing in the article tho about how long the virus can live without a host though.
*sighs* Why is it that the more you find out the more questions there are!
I wont be getting any more when this guy passes away, I'm sure I'll find something else that I like just as much.
He's still hanging in there, eating and swimming well, chasing the guppies occasionaly, but the tumour has probably doubled in size now.
It is also interesting that the article says
"A follow-up study, which has just been published by Richard Whittington and Jeffrey Go in the journal Aquaculture, has shown that the Dwarf gourami iridovirus can be spread from infected fish through the water"
I'm guessing that that means a full tank breakdown and disinfection to ensure that if I did get another healthy Dwarf Gourami that it didn't get the virus that's now in the water. There was nothing in the article tho about how long the virus can live without a host though.
*sighs* Why is it that the more you find out the more questions there are!