Veterinary Record

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Books received

Fish Vetting Essentials Loh Richmond Dr.Landos Matt Dr. 215 pages, paperback, AUD 99. Richmond Loh Publishing. 2012. ISBN 978 0 9871571 0 2

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364 | Veterinary Record | April 7, 2012

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http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/170/14/364.3.full

To be reviewed.

Microscopic anatomy of doctorfish, ocean surgeon and blue tang.

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This is what we veterinary fish pathologists look at when investigating fish diseases.

http://www.flseagrant.org/program_areas/aquaculture/publications/Histological_Atlas/Micro/blue_tang/kidney.htm

What does coloured water mean? Are fish diseased?.

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Ever walked past an aquarium in a shop with coloured water? Never buy fish from an aquarium with coloured water. Why? It most likely means that the fish are being treated for some sort of
disease.

Some medications cause discolouration to the water. Can we tell what they are being treated with and then what they’re being treated for?

I’ve written a short list of commonly used drugs that are readily available from the local fish store.

Brown = tetracyclines = treating for bacterial infection.

Yellow = acriflavin = treating for bacterial infection.

Pink/purple = potassium permangenate = treating for bacterial infection or fungal infection.

Blue = methylene blue = treating for bacterial infection.

Green = malachite green = treating for fungal or protozoal infection.

Do you know other colours?

As an aside…

I’ve actually been to an aquarium store once where the sales staff tried to convince me that there was nothing wrong with the fish in the green water and that they would catch the fish to sell to me if I was interested!

Is your local fish shop selling fish responsibly?

More on the diseased fish and turtles in Gladstone harbour.

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From: AquaticHealth.net
Date: 27 April 2012 6:36:14 AWST
To: “thefishvet”
Subject: New Comment

New comment on report Tests Fail to Find Dredging Link to Sick Fish: http://aquatichealth.net/node/45354.

Comment:

The presence of diseased fish and turtles in Gladstone harbour now (2012) cannot be linked back to an acute flood event in 2010. It is much more likely the fish are suffereing from chronic stress due to a variety of insults, of which dredging is but a part. For a review of the problem, see the report of the scientific advisory panel at http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/gladstone/pdf/gladstone-sap-report.pdf

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AquaticHealth.net