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I just got one a few weeks ago, and he isn't very active at all. I thought maybe he was being shy, but the last few days he's been lying on his side at the bottom but will also float at the top... His head has a bump, making his head look almost crooked. I don't think it's bladder issues, because he will swim fine when scared but the filter current took him away when turned on. Very hard to watch.

It is Piscean Tuberculosis, the same that is commonly found in Rainbow fish

My pineapple conure is so good,,she doesn’t make a noise in the morning or at all really.she is very good and likes to fly around,she likes me best and if she bites I say a strong NO..she is learning..I love her..mine was 500 from a breeder..

They are definitely naughty in a very adorable way

No I did NOT think this is in any way informative !!! I was expecting to see and be wiser by the end of this video, You did not say anything about the disease how the fish reacted to any treatment, nor did you explain the treatment you tried.

Seeing you for first time. Recently purchased 50 Year Ember Tetras to accompany my collection of Super Red Long Fin Ancustrus housing in 40g. Thrilled with them

This was such a helpful video. Thank you for this 😊

Thanks for posting this interesting video. One of the biggest takeaways from this should be the overwhelming lack of quarantine amongst fish keepers. This is the key to a healthy population. One should assume the new fish are infected and commence a suite of treatments for the common ailments over a period of weeks. In this particular case, it does appear that the fishes are already infected when they arrive in the dealers tanks. Thus the stress of capture, bagging and transport seems to trigger a stress-related drop in immune response. Introduction into new accommodation and being confronted with strange tank mates only compounds the stress. The fish must have already been borderline in the store, before being pushed over the threshold when they succumbed to the challenge and started showing symptoms. By which time it is usually too late. I have seen this disease listed as Dwarf Gourami Iridovirus Disease. This is postulated to be a result of chronic inbreeding when the virus takes advantage of the poor genetics of the species, and proliferates from early development into adulthood. There is no treatment or cure for this virus, and affected fishes should be euthanized. This explanation may account for the fact that only dwarf gouramis are affected, and other species are not. Someone has commented that the condition is caused by Mycobacteria. The symptoms are almost identical to those of the iridovirus mentioned above. This may be near the truth (pending further research), and if it does turn out to be the case, may hold clues to its possible treatment. Mycobacteria are responsible for a disease in freshwater fishes known as fish TB, or tuberculosis. Contrary to the majority of pathogenic bacteria infecting fishes, which are Gram-negative, Mycobacteria are Gram-positive and possess a thick outer wall. This, and other attributes, makes them difficult to treat. The classic treatment has been the antibiotic Rifampicin coupled with Isonicotinic acid. These are not easy to come by. Streptomycin has also been used, but this works best when injected. Erythromycin has been reported to be effective, in conjunction with metronidazole, soaked onto food, but treatment regimes and dosages are hard to come by. Kanamycin and doxycycline are also listed as treatments but accurate information is hard to track down. IF this disease is a mycobacterium, then a number of measures will help improve things and minimise the risks. Increasing the aeration by a lot seems to be important. Keeping the pH at 7 or above helps. Keeping the substrate clean will decrease the numbers of infective units to infect susceptible fishes. Leaving filter maintenance to the point of greatly reduced flow seems to help in trapping mycobacterial particles. Some people have had success using a UV steriliser. Apparently, many infected fishes can live with the mycobacterium for quite some time if the conditions are clean.

My GCC is definitely both devilish and adorable. He can be very loud and spoiled at times when he’s in the cage but I agree with what you said the cage should only be for them to sleep in my opinion they are very active and require a lot of play time. Mine doesn’t get into a lot of trouble so I’ll let him out with my other birds just fine. He’s very cuddly but as soon as he sees my finger he will snap at me and make me bleed 😭 it can be very frustrating but I’ve learned over time this is just how they are. I would say if you aren’t experienced with birds just yet a cockatiel is a lot easier to take care of but conures are like having kids and require a lot of attention

Would this be caused from perhaps inbreeding ?

This is an old video but I'm a bit panicked:/ I just got my powder blue dwarf from an instate fish store shipped today . He immediately went to the bottom of the tank n I noticed this bump on his head , from some angles it looks black but from the front you can't tell. He's been swimming around and even kinda digging a bit in the substrate. His colors came back after he settled in his tank. But he's hanging out in the lower part of the tank and the bump is making be a bit nervous :/ Other than that so far he's acting fine. I just have no idea if he's gonna die. I just lost my Betta earlier this month, I'll be devasted if I loose this guy too

Should it’s me the eggs out of the cage?.

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Seriously really? I'm supposed to read it with this annoying music thanks a lot

Two of my dwarf gouramis had a bloated belly. One survived, and the other died. Is there any medication/cure for it?

I have a superfish tropical 5.5 gallon tank and I’m getting the first fish tomorrow ❤

I just paid $725 for a high red pineapple and $925 for a cinnamon turquoise.

I'm not sure if this is relevant or purely coincidence, but my dwarf gourami is likely suffering from this disease- trying what we can but it's not looking good. I just noticed you had the snail and ours did not get noticeably sick (4 months appeared healthy with other another dwarf gourami and 4 other tank-mates) until we added a couple of mystery snails and was sick within a couple weeks. I'd be curious if there is some kind of zoonotic disease that doesn't affect the snails or agitates the disease already found in the gourami. Maybe just a poor immune system due to the disease and our snails just brought something new they couldn't handle. Or like I said, total coincidence- most animals hide if they are sick until it's really bad. It's sad what the industry has done to these gentle, beautiful fish. It seems like that import should be more heavily monitored for disease- banned without confirmation of health screen (I'm not sure if a financially-feasible test has been developed). If we buy these again, I'll definitely get confirmation they were locally farmed in the states. But I don't want to watch another one with this disease- it is pretty awful.

Hello, Iv just watched your video. Thank you for taking the time to research and pass this on. Iv heard of this before but never had DG before. I bought 3 a week ago for 35 gal com tank as touch wood all seems fine. In your experience, how long does it take for this to manifest if the fish have it? Mine don’t seem far of being fully grown. Thanks

im quite happy they live so long because it broke our hearts when we lost our dog to old age and its never enough time

I initially thought my gourami has stress ich, he eventually started showing a lot of discoloration on his top fin, he’s super frail and doesn’t eat, he was swimming for while but it looked uncomfortable, now he’s turning black and just sinks to the bottom of the tank, idk if it’s dgd or anything else I’m have a super hard time trying to identify the problem? Can anyone help

Sorry to say love, but as soon as I heard you say that your water parameters were perfect and then continued on from that stating that you had zero nitrates in your tank. The fact you don’t understand that nitrates are good for your tank and actually on necessary for fish such as Gourami, you shouldn’t be doing tutorials for Fish keeping sorry Darl. Ammonia is toxic. Yes nitrite is toxic. Yes but nitrates are essential not too little and not too much. That’s perfect parameters.

Could you talk a bit louder in your future videos thank I appreciate it champ

What a mesmerizing little fish. Beautiful color, they’re fun to watch them school. They’re excellent tank-mates with neocaridina shrimp.

I'm getting my Blue Throated tomorrow, if you personally ask me? They all seem so genuinly down to earth, and calm and I cannot wait to pick mine up, I can see maybe two being a problem, but I am buying one.

not about the mourning geckos but i noticed a bug on the glass when you were showing the isopod, my bf and i recently just had an infestation of them in our cages and didn’t know if they were bad or not there was just a lot of them so we quarantined everyone and cooked all the dirt but do you know what it is and what they do? i just want to know if i spent weeks cooking dirt for nothing 😭😂 loved your video!❤

I bought my GCC at pets mart for 700$ sheehs lol but we clicked immediately so: priceless

My favorite aquarium fish is the dwarf gourami. because they have many beautiful features. Just as I had formed a bond with the dwarf gourami, I suddenly lost it. While I was treating problems such as white spots and tail clipping in other fish, I quarantined all fish as a precaution. I treated them with a German-made medicine that is effective against almost every bacteria, parasite and fungus. All the fish recovered and regained their health. (7 neon tetras, 3 platies, 2 dwarf stingrays). Only the healthy Dwarf Gourami's health deteriorated. When I researched the symptoms, I saw that it was DGiV. Medicines containing methylene blue and malachite green suddenly triggered this virus in him, and within 2 days, problems such as color changes, imbalance, and inability to swim began. The fins appeared to be shrunken. The animal is still alive but nothing I try works. So I put him in a bowl with clean oxygen and left him alone. I throw bait next to it from time to time. I think he will die soon. It is very sad that such a magnificent species dies in 2 weeks, 1 month or 1 year. I hope there is a solution to this.

I had nowhere to get them but petco, lost the first one a few days ago after like.. 9 months, he started breathing real fast and looked like he was on drugs (HUGE pupil), and now another one KIND OF seems to be doing the same thing, but not extreme, so I'm keeping an eye on them, but hell.. Any thoughts? They ARE in a planted, filtered tank with all the beneficial bacteria, low waterflow because they're in a shrimp tank with neo caridinas, so.. hard water and all that. They are in a ten gallon, also, for the record.

You may have covered this and I missed it, but one thing to consider before you get a green cheek is the other birds in your flock, especially if you have different species. I find that my green cheek is very sociable and very pesty towards my lineolated parakeet and my budgie. He doesn't mean any harm; he actually tries to preen them or feed them but they don't like it. His high activity level and constant pestering really freaks them out. So, if you have a mixed flock, you may have to house your green cheek in another room or stagger the "out of cage" time to keep the stress level down for your smaller birds. I am not sure how green cheeks interact with larger birds such as Amazons, cockatoos or macaws. Maybe someone else can comment on that.

Mines are little devils

I bought 2 blue dwarf gourami's in early August this year, one small one a little bigger than a quarter, and the 2nd one was twice that size. they were fine for 1 month and 1 week in the quarantine tank, eating, swimming. then added them to my 55 community tank, within 3 weeks the little one started to become lethargic and stopped eating then died within a few days, I had already read up as much as possible about did after being warned about it. and true to form the second one who seemed absolutely fine when the little one passed away, 4 days later started not eating, lethargic and died exactly 1 week after the 1st one! 😢 I don't know why stores keep selling them!

Same here, everything was just fine and then, he just started staying in 1 place and nexr day he died...like what?! The water condition was just fine

Hey I love your cute video! Any idea how to tell male from females? I know let's have my group has big round bellies and the other half are pretty thin and shark like

We had gotten ours very unplanned. My wife was the bird person in our relationship she has had many cockatiels and they are great so i didn't mind baby sitting a green cheek when her friends asked. It was only supposed to be for a week or 2 while she was on vacation. Several months later we got the impression they just wanted us to keep him cause he was a handful. He has anxiety issues from being passed from home to home so his feathers are a bit chewed up and he was on a poor diet. I couldn't bare to part ways with him so little by little we are making progress with him and I don't think I've ever loved birds this much as i do at this point in my life. What wonderful and under rated animals. When I found out they live to 20-30 yrs i was so happy i never want them to have to deal with separation anxiety or be passed to other homes.

I 💕💕 my Charlie so much💚🦜💚🦜💚🦜 4:13

They are awesome in my eyes that's because they are new age Dinosaur that's why they act so different parrots in general

I have a cinnamon she costed 400 but so worth it, she is not that moody but she loves snuggles, dances and also can say a few words.

They r so cute I have one

Thank you for all that information about the green cheek Conyers. It really helped me decide if I should or will get one! I at the moment have a very SPOILED COCKATIEL named Fella he is around 10 yrs old and I've been trying to decide if I should add another feathery family member? Fella was raised with two red ramped parrots and parakeets so I know he will be fine im just afraid we will lose the strong bond we have made since it became just me and him? I do have to say though Fella is just as MOODY as a green cheek Conyer!! Lol 😆

I've lost one from this condition already, and currently trying to revive back two others. It's just crazy that only 2 of the 5 I got have stayed healthy. Water parameters are fine considering it's a community tank with other species in it as well that are thriving

4:55 would it be okay to go to something like petsmart or would that be considered a big box pet store like you mentioned in your video

About how long do they hold the eggs

good advice

A perfect name for a green cheek would be Stitch. Cute adorable affectionate MONSTER.

Thank you for this video, my darling female is dying from the disease. It is heartbreaking to watch her go. They have wonderful personalities. Hopefully, I can find a local breeder. Once again thank you for the knowledge.

geez normal is 300? my green ckeek was was 900 just itself *cries*

I agree they are unique. I call them the pit bulls of parrots as I have rescues and they are either extremely viscious or extremely timid when the rescues arrive. I have a parent raised 5 month old baby too and he has been the easiest baby bird to train and keep entertained. He loves all the toys and seems to really love and appreciate living with us. I also have a Quaker parrot i adopted at 8 months old from another great home they had other birds and felt they didnt have enough time for her so i adopted her and she is like a flying puppy and follows me around, she's playful and she and the parent raised green cheek have no behavioural issues that I notice. Rescues take a long time to come around, settle in and learn trust again. Green cheeks are the most complex burd species I've ever coexisted with (I'm home a lot due to disibilities) due to having so much time I chose green cheeks for the challenge that is well worth the rewards. Great video. A lot of great info and advice.