Journal of
eISSN: 2378-3184
Submit manuscript...
Short Communication Volume 3 Issue 1
Using Of Garra rufa for Treatment of Fin Rot in Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Calin Decebal Cojocaru,2
Verify Captcha
Regret for the inconvenience: we are taking measures to prevent fraudulent form submissions by extractors and page crawlers. Please type the correct Captcha word to see email ID.
Clementina Luisa Cojocaru1
Verify Captcha
Regret for the inconvenience: we are taking measures to prevent fraudulent form submissions by extractors and page crawlers. Please type the correct Captcha word to see email ID.
1Faculty of Animal Sciences and Biotechnology, Section of Aquaculture, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Banat, Romania
2Department of Aquatic Pathology Laboratory, National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority, Romania
Correspondence: Calin Decebal Cojocaru, Faculty of Animal Sciences and Biotechnology, Section of Aquaculture, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Banat, Timi?oara, King Mihai I of Romania, Romania
Received: October 23, 2015 | Published: October 29, 2015
Citation: Cojocaru CL, Cojocaru CD (2015) Ciguatera, an Emerging Human Poisoning in Europe. J Aquac Mar Biol 3(1): 00054. DOI: 10.15406/jamb.2015.03.00054
Abstract
Garra rufahas been used to treat fin necrosis in goldfish. Sick fish were reared in the same tank with Garra rufawhich was able to eat necrotic tissue of the fins and goldfish healed.
Keywords:Garra rufa,Goldfish, Fin rot, Fish, Flavobacterium, Gyrodactylus
Introduction
Garra rufa is a small Cyprinidae fish used to treat psoriazis in humans (www.fishbase.org) because of it is able to eat affected tissues.
Aims
Taking into account this information we tried to see if this fish can be used to treat fin rot in fish. Fin rot is a polifactorial disease, but Flavobacterium and Gyrodactylus are recognised to have the major role (Ferguson, 2006).
Material and methods
6 naturally infected goldfish with fin rot caused by Flavobacterium sp. and Gyrodactylus sp. diagnosed by direct microscopy were introduced in an aquarium. 2 fish were separated by a glass placed inside. 6 specimens of Garra rufa were introduced with 2 separated goldfish and 4 goldfish remained isolated, without Garra rufa.1,2
Results
After 3 days, necrosis started to disappear and eroded fins started to rise because of consuming the necrotic tissues of goldfish reared in the same tank with Garra rufa. Necrosis worsened in the other 4 untreated goldfish.
Conclusion
We concluded that Garra rufa can be used to treat fin rot in warm water fish and our experiment was successful.
Acknowledgments
None.
Conflicts of interest
None.
References
©2015 Cojocaru, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially.