Posted by cindy on March 22, 2003 at 05:40:26:
In Reply to: Re: WHAT? posted by stubd38 on March 20, 2003 at 11:03:33:
...it is quite common. It may rarely infect humans, but is present in most tanks. It commonly kills one or a few fish over a period of time, and the only time I have heard of it killing off a whole tank (which IS rare) was when the dead fish was left in the tank and other fish fed off of it (like at WalMart.) If you remove them and put them down when wasting begins (as they rarely recover at that point) it is not likely to spread.
How can you suspect (generic) internal parasites? External parasites, like ich, are quite common, but flukes and nematodes are much less common in CB fish (there are not many WC guppies in the stores) than fish tuberculosis, and don't have the same symptoms. And how will she "find out first if it is parasitic in nature first"? How did you determine yours had internal parasites without necropsy? I find that many aquarists blame internal parasites when they are at a loss for what to blame for the death of their fish, but they can't tell you which internal parasite it was.
