I’m betting a fungus developed due to water temp issues. The only reason I realized it happened to some of mine was the fact that I caged them for several weeks. Issues started showing up over a week later. Same happened to the ones I hauled to Bruce. My bet is you didn’t lose all of them, but nearly all of them to fungus.
This must be why, as Bill mentioned, that vendors keep then in salted water. The same practice is employed when overwintering tilapia in marginal climates. The salt inhibits many freshwater pathogens including fungi (the same is true with the vice versa e.g. saltwater parasites dying when salmon run freshwater). Salt in limited nonlethal quantity is good for the general delousing of just about any freshwater fish.
Last edited by jpsdad; 09/21/1906:17 AM.
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