alexkharden
06/05/2016, 01:29 AM
Backstory:
I previously bought two Marine Bettas from an online vendor. I put both in quarantine, and both died within 4 days. All of the other fish that I've quarantined have done fine, so I don't attribute the Betta deaths to my procedures, although I'm not above being proved wrong. I decided it must be the vendor source, so I ordered one from my lfs and picked it up day before yesterday.
It died yesterday. Here's the problem I find myself in/placed myself in. I decided to skip quarantine. I put it directly into the tank, and exposed all of my other fish to whatever it had. I'm 99% that the "whatever" it died from is Enteric Redmouth Disease.
So how screwed am I? Does anyone know about this disease? I've been able to find little in it, because apparently it isn't overly found in hobbyist setups. The little I've been able to find says it's a gram negative bacterial infection that's generally transmitted by fish to fish contact. I also saw a mention of transmission via poop, but no description of how that type of transmission would occur. I haven't been able to find much else.
Please help save me from my own stupidity!
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I previously bought two Marine Bettas from an online vendor. I put both in quarantine, and both died within 4 days. All of the other fish that I've quarantined have done fine, so I don't attribute the Betta deaths to my procedures, although I'm not above being proved wrong. I decided it must be the vendor source, so I ordered one from my lfs and picked it up day before yesterday.
It died yesterday. Here's the problem I find myself in/placed myself in. I decided to skip quarantine. I put it directly into the tank, and exposed all of my other fish to whatever it had. I'm 99% that the "whatever" it died from is Enteric Redmouth Disease.
So how screwed am I? Does anyone know about this disease? I've been able to find little in it, because apparently it isn't overly found in hobbyist setups. The little I've been able to find says it's a gram negative bacterial infection that's generally transmitted by fish to fish contact. I also saw a mention of transmission via poop, but no description of how that type of transmission would occur. I haven't been able to find much else.
Please help save me from my own stupidity!
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