Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Species => Cichlids => Topic started by: Matt on October 15, 2021, 08:18:13 PM
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PFK recently advised it readers that “there is a virus reported in rams (which may affect other cichlids too), which is a type of iridovirus.”
This is news to me and quite worrying to my eyes as a) I love rams, and b) I have consistently avoided the beautiful dwarf gourami for whom it is relatively common knowledge that iridovirus affects shop bought fish. I now feel that I need to take extra care with my favourite fish…
Czech bred rams are always known to be the most beautiful but I wonder if they are any more or less disease resistant….
I don’t know much about iridovirus but I assume an element of inbreeding/the hobby in general is partly to blame. This is another in a growing group of fish I am nervous of buying due to such issues. Especially as iridovirus is one of those things that once it’s in a tank you’ve essentially got to live with it for the life of the tank…
Realising this is somewhat just my rambling but interested to hear the views of others too…
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Is the article available on PFK's website or just in the paper copy?
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It is mentioned in a response to a reader's question
https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/fishkeeping-answers/whats-killing-my-rams/
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Thank you :)