Uber, man... you have the ultimate of everything frogfish!uberfugu said:I tracked down a copy of Frogfishes of the World , by Pietsch and Grobecker ... bought it as a birthday present for myself ... yay! Unfortunately had to spend a bundle on it... but worth it.
Hehehe... finally caught up with Steve. He kept saying, "Don't worry! Don't worry! I'll get you one too!" Next one is mineuberfugu said:Don't know yet. BTW - Norman, you missed the brown one at New Alameda. I had to pick him up to keep the orange fellow happy
Mr. Ugly said:Uber, Cherie, you guys gotta go talk anglers with Steve. He's all into it. He'll like hearing about your experiences.
Reefcherie said:OMG what a cutie! Did you get another one?
uberfugu said:I had been prophylactically treating with the old standards: formalin dips, metronidazole, nitrofurazone; these seem to knock out incoming crypto, amyloodinium, and any bad bacteria. But some recent research has indicated that frogfishes may harbor dormant strains of Mycobacterium marinum and Vibrio sp. A lot of frogfish losses within the first few days point to massive bacterial infection.
I have recently acquired some rifampin and levofloxacin but I think that I wont use these until an infection is actually diagnosed.