Fish Health Management Course at NCSU

Definately a good course. Thought that it had been defunct for awhile. Glad to see that's not the case :D Unfortunately I'm in the same boat, not enough notice and funds :eek2: However the anouncement is worthy of being made a sticky, thanks Steven :D
 
i took the fish health managment course a few years back ay UG interesting course.though I have not found alot of pratical use for it.Seem that if the fish has a chance if you give it a good stress free tank to hang in it will pull thru.Takieng scrapings and giving proziquantal baths seem to kill the fish faster than leaving them alone.If you have alot of sick fish and are willing to sacrafice one for diagnotics than it also makes sence

just my 2cents

Joe Damone
 
I skin scrape everything, although I've never had a course in doing so (learned from a mentor.) Before it goes into my tank, it gets scraped. I use it more for prevention than for treatment, but I'm better equipped to diagnose something if I can see it and identify it.
 
Thanks for the tip. My company ships a lot of fish to schools. We are right in NC. I suggested to my boss that someone in our group go.
 
I didn't go, but heard from someone local who did, they said it was very good.
 
I called the Office of Continuing Education today inquiring about this course for next year. They said they will be repeating it again in July from the 20-22, but the website had not yet been updated to take registrations. They also do not have a subscription or anything to be informed when there is an update. You just have to keep checking the website,
http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu:8110/conted/
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=3561960#post3561960 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Joe Damone
i took the fish health managment course a few years back ay UG interesting course.though I have not found alot of pratical use for it.Seem that if the fish has a chance if you give it a good stress free tank to hang in it will pull thru.Takieng scrapings and giving proziquantal baths seem to kill the fish faster than leaving them alone.If you have alot of sick fish and are willing to sacrafice one for diagnotics than it also makes sence

just my 2cents

Joe Damone
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A friend of mine years back, had a really big lionfish that wa sick, so he contacted someone being called the fish doctor at oklahoma state university, and he never saw the fish again haha great job fish doctor! haha
 
hmm i did not mean to slander the university of oklahoma state. It is a great school with with several family members attend.
 
I attended two years ago (at NCSU), pretty informative class. At the time, I did not have the clinical knowledge so I found a lot of the information to be either elementaey (basic husbandry) or advanced (pathology, disease descriptions, etc...). The labs were the best part of the experience, definitely made it worth while. I was fortunate to get the graduate student fee, and since I think it would normally cost $500, I just don't know if it would be that worthwhile for the hobbiest.

I would suggest Noga's fish health book, or even the new Lewbart Invert Med. book. This would probably be just as helpful, sans the hands on experience in the lab.

Just my 2 pesos
Scott
 
I attended the course this year - IT WAS EXCELLENT!!

Besides the very informative presentations, the hands on lab time and the observation of surgery on a live koi was beyond what I had expected.

I would highly recommend this course.
 
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