RE: A.jururensis

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

Yvan sounds like disease may not be an imediate
concern for you as they seem healthy. I will say it is
my opinion all wild fish are filled with parasites! It
amazes me that even healthy fish will have internal
bugs of some kind. The thing is if they get stressed
enough to trigger a bad out break or secoundary
bacterial infections. I love wild fish and I find that
they breed more readily. I only say this because
having done many necropsys on various wild South
American fish there is always something. So dont
totaly rule that out because you never know. If we
provide good water quality and a secure environment
our little Apistos are pretty tough.

 I have  riccia your welcome to it if you like.

Dave

--- J Miller <ruddigar_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yvan,
> 
>   I agree with David.  It sounds like your fish are
> sick.  If they are
> wild caught, again like David said, they probably
> have a parasitic
> infection.  Also, depending on the holding
> facilities where you got
> them, they could have a bacterial infection - poor
> water quality is
> often a cause of this.
>   Until we can figure out what is the problem, I
> would suggest keeping
> up the water changes, and perhaps even adding an
> airstone to keep the
> O2 levels up.
> 
> I pray that they'll make it.
> 
> 
> 
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