Re: lateral line disease in freshwater fish

[Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>]

Yup.
I keep asking you guys because I have seen most of you and you strike me 
as a generally intelligent, well read and experienced lot who will give 
me the straight answers. Not so sure about some of the websites out 
there, which contradict eachother or are really just copying eachother 
and various pamphlets put out by the manufacturers of products they 
sell. Often these products are of dubious merit ;) or the articles are 
based on very old theories. I figure you guys know best.
So I think it's lateral line erosion. One site says it's hexamita 
infection, another says the hexamita theory has been debunked and it is 
now thought to be like scurvy, a nutritional deficiency. Both sites say 
it is found in fish stressed out for long periods by being held in water 
with nitrate at or above 40 ppm, fed a non balanced diet of livefoods. 
This fits her tank conditions exactly.
Thanks,
Kate

Susan Welenofsky wrote:

> Is this the russian woman?
>
> Susan
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Kate Breimayer 
>  To: *GSAS member 
>  Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:27 PM
>  Subject: lateral line disease in freshwater fish
>
>
>  Hi,
>  My friend of the dissipating cardinals has a new problem: her angels 
>  appear to have fin rot and lateral line disease. I know about this in 
>  marine fish but not freshwater, what should she use to treat it? They 
>  are isolated and suffering badly, one went upside down, so they may be 
>  too far gone. Poor girl is really getting the toughest of lessons in 
>  quarantine, and I by proxy am learning quite a lot that I never meant to.
>  On the plus side she got a bunch of cardinals from a little store down 
>  here and put them in quarantine, all are doing great. One problem solved...
>  Kate
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