blue acara
Fish Herder
I think one or possibly two of my fish have been infected with whirling disease.
A really worrying thing is that I think they caught it from (Interpet)freeze dried bloodworm, which I guess is a widely used food. I suspect the freeze dried food as it was the only new food or new thing going into the tank.
Water stats NH4: 0, NO2: 0, NO3 approx 10-20ppm.
The symptoms are sudden jerky swimming movements- chasing the tail. It still has balance and can swim fine.It is still eating and physically in good health. Its been showing these symptoms for over a month now. The sick fish is a Sajica, 6 months old. Raised him myself.
Could the problem be something else?
It sayshere
that it is gamma irradiated to ensure they are completely pathogen free prior to being freeze dried.
Does gamma radiation kill the whirling disease spores? Either it doesn't or interpets freeze dried bloodworms are not really gamma irradiated.(if the fish does have whirling disease)
Reading another whirling disease thread on here, a mod said 'Whirling disease affects coldwater salminoids and nothing else so we know its not that.'
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What are peoples thoughts on whirling disease in tropical fish does it exist or not?
Viruses, parasites can adapt/mutate to live in different conditions, this may have happened in Myxobolus cerebralis (whirling disease). I wont be feeding any bloodworm from now on as a precaution.
<a href="http/www.whirling-disease.org/" target="_blank">http/www.whirling-disease.org/</a> some info:
Myxobolus cerebralis is a metazoan parasite that penetrates the head and spinal cartilage of fingerling trout where it multiplies very rapidly, putting pressure on the organ of equilibrium. This causes the fish to swim erratically (whirl), and have difficulty feeding and avoiding predators.
Regardless of species, when each infected fish dies, many thousands to millions of the parasite spores are released to the water.
The spore can withstand freezing and desiccation, and can survive in a stream for 20 to 30 years. Eventually, it must be ingested by its alternate host, a tiny and common aquatic worm known as Tubifex tubifex, where the spore takes on the form that once again will infect trout fry.
A really worrying thing is that I think they caught it from (Interpet)freeze dried bloodworm, which I guess is a widely used food. I suspect the freeze dried food as it was the only new food or new thing going into the tank.
Water stats NH4: 0, NO2: 0, NO3 approx 10-20ppm.
The symptoms are sudden jerky swimming movements- chasing the tail. It still has balance and can swim fine.It is still eating and physically in good health. Its been showing these symptoms for over a month now. The sick fish is a Sajica, 6 months old. Raised him myself.
Could the problem be something else?
It sayshere
that it is gamma irradiated to ensure they are completely pathogen free prior to being freeze dried.
Does gamma radiation kill the whirling disease spores? Either it doesn't or interpets freeze dried bloodworms are not really gamma irradiated.(if the fish does have whirling disease)
Reading another whirling disease thread on here, a mod said 'Whirling disease affects coldwater salminoids and nothing else so we know its not that.'
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Viruses, parasites can adapt/mutate to live in different conditions, this may have happened in Myxobolus cerebralis (whirling disease). I wont be feeding any bloodworm from now on as a precaution.
<a href="http
/www.whirling-disease.org/" target="_blank">http/www.whirling-disease.org/</a> some info:Myxobolus cerebralis is a metazoan parasite that penetrates the head and spinal cartilage of fingerling trout where it multiplies very rapidly, putting pressure on the organ of equilibrium. This causes the fish to swim erratically (whirl), and have difficulty feeding and avoiding predators.
Regardless of species, when each infected fish dies, many thousands to millions of the parasite spores are released to the water.
The spore can withstand freezing and desiccation, and can survive in a stream for 20 to 30 years. Eventually, it must be ingested by its alternate host, a tiny and common aquatic worm known as Tubifex tubifex, where the spore takes on the form that once again will infect trout fry.
