"Red Pest", Invented Fish Disease

[Carl]

I made a new article post at Fish as Pets:
Red Pest, Invented Fish Disease, Actually Septicemia

This article deals with an Internet invented fish disease that is not even a disease.
This has been cut and paste in several forums already, and the the usual suspects in particular.

This is similar to the Planaria internet craze where now even the search engines come up with mostly incorrect spam for the misidentification of two completely different worm phylums.
Hopefully this "Red Pest" misidentification does not go this far

Carl

[goldenpuon]

Nice read! Thanks for writing this article about this! I have no heard of the "red pest" before this. However, it is nice that you wrote this so if I come across it, I'll will know it's another term (pretty misleading IMO) for septicemia.

Renee

[Carl]

I updated the "Red Pest, Septicemia" article from Fish as Pats Aquatic News Article

Here is a quote:
"I will however cover a few basics, only to correct the poor information provided elsewhere by those calling this "Red Pest" disease:

The obvious is since 9 times out of 10 poor water conditions are a factor, look to improve these.
Check, clean, change substrate & filters. Make sure water conditions are where they should be, INCLUDING Redox (which is often simply improved by improving other parameters along with the addition of mineral Cations and true UVC sterilization)"

Reference:
www.fish-as-pets.com/2013/06/red-pest-invented-fish-disease-actually.html

Carl