How to harness behavioural fever to help heal sick fish.

Trying to treat sick fish in winter comes with major challenges because their immunity is depressed due to the cold water temperate.

But did you know that fish display behavioural fever to help boost their immune system when they’re sick?

This short video shows how you can do this in winter for your pond fish, to improve your treatment success.

Watch – https://youtu.be/YW_rdH5nzrM

Calendar of Aquatic Veterinary Conferences for 2018.

Source – https://www.wavma.org/

 

• June 13 – 15, 8th International Conference “WATER & FISH”, Belgrade, Serbia
Source CEFAH

June 18 – 29, SeaVet Clinical Training, Gainesville, USA
Source UF/IFA

 • July 5-7, Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 
 •  July 13-17, 2018: AVMA Convention — Denver, CO (USA) – To see the schedule for 17 hours of aquatic veterinary lectures, click here

 

July 29 – August 4, Conservation Medicine and Diseases of Amphibians and Reptiles, New York, USA. Source Southwestern Research Station

• August 12-17, 2018: Health and Colony Management of Laboratory Fish Course — MDI Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine (USA)

• September 2-6, 2018: **8th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health — Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (Canada)
– Abstract submission deadline is May 31st; for instructions and to submit, click here.
– For information on veterinary continuing education, click here.

• September 25-28, 2018: **World Small Animal Veterinary Association — Singapore – Early-bird registration ends June 25, 2018 – For the WAVMA interactive wetlab and lecture veterinary continuing education schedule, click here.

• October 16 – 19, 6th Med. Conference on Marine Turtles, Poreč, Croatia. Source UP

• November 8-12, 2018: **2018 WAVMA Conference, AGM and Biosecurity Workshop — St. Kitts (West Indies) – Abstracts for General Session presentations must be submitted by June 1, 2018. – Register early for the lowest General Sessions rates, and to ensure a place in the wetlabs or biosecurity workshop (filed on first-come, first-served basis). Reserve your discounted hotel room as they are filling fast – To view the tentative daily schedule, click here.

 

 

Source – https://www.wavma.org/

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Pilchard virus kills 100,000 salmon in Tasmania.

revelations of mass fish kills in Macquarie Harbour, EPA Director Wes Ford has this morning confirmed a disease outbreak at Tassal and Petuna pens has been a cause of mass mortalities.

https://www.et.org.au/epa_confirms_fish_herpes_virus_outbreak_the_cause_of_mass_fish_kills_in_macquarie_harbour

Viruses can mutate to kill other hosts.

https://thefishsite.com/articles/fish-vets-conference-goes-viral

FREE analysis of your water parameters – let us check your pond health!

The annual KSWA Show for koi fish is happening tomorrow.

Tomorrow, bring your pond/aquarium water and visit The Fish Vet’s stall to get a free water quality check between 10am-2pm.

The event will be held at:
Ramon’s At Willow Pond,
459 Nicholson Rd, Canning Vale WA 6107 <https://g.co/kgs/MiHZgv>


Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.

Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
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The only way to beat knowledge is with ignorance – the KHV debate.

Through the years we’ve been posting about Australia’s proposal to release the koi herpesvirus.

Use this link to familiarise yourself with the other sides of the debate –

https://thefishvet.com/?s=KHV