There are wasting diseases, with an s. Like dropsy or swim bladder, we are calling the symptom a disease and that leads to errors.
Flub is brilliant for nematodes. If it were them, all the fish would be dead by now. It is is also great for a range of other parasites that'll cause wasting.
Bacterial infections cause wasting.
The bacterial infection, Myco causes wasting.
Poor nutrition.
Extreme damage in shipping.
Your survivors weren't treated, and they are fine. So I would suspect bacterial. You can dose with flub, but that's probably for you to feel active. The main source of fish dying right after arrival is shipping stress outbreaks combined with farms crowding. I just read a paper on how to profitably get maximum growth to move bronze Corys to market. The research showed 100% daily water changes at a density of 30,000 fish per square metre. Can you imagine how rapidly a disease would spread if it got into such dense populations? The poor fish would almost be stacked up.
The fish die 2 days after arrival and we say to pull out the test kits. We so rarely focus on what the fish look and act like - we go straight to the reagent kits, which implies we've done something wrong. Sometimes we have.
Every purchase has a risk, for stores buying stock and for aquarists buying fish.
Flub is brilliant for nematodes. If it were them, all the fish would be dead by now. It is is also great for a range of other parasites that'll cause wasting.
Bacterial infections cause wasting.
The bacterial infection, Myco causes wasting.
Poor nutrition.
Extreme damage in shipping.
Your survivors weren't treated, and they are fine. So I would suspect bacterial. You can dose with flub, but that's probably for you to feel active. The main source of fish dying right after arrival is shipping stress outbreaks combined with farms crowding. I just read a paper on how to profitably get maximum growth to move bronze Corys to market. The research showed 100% daily water changes at a density of 30,000 fish per square metre. Can you imagine how rapidly a disease would spread if it got into such dense populations? The poor fish would almost be stacked up.
The fish die 2 days after arrival and we say to pull out the test kits. We so rarely focus on what the fish look and act like - we go straight to the reagent kits, which implies we've done something wrong. Sometimes we have.
Every purchase has a risk, for stores buying stock and for aquarists buying fish.