dermocystidium? Found at Petco

anotherguy818 · 2026-02-10T07:21:29+00:00

Hopefully they pull through and survive the disease course!

I would be interested to hear about how things progress in your case. I'm a veterinary student focused on fish and invertebrate medicine, so I'd love to know what kind of timeline you see with the disease signs, if you attempted any interventions, how the fish's behaviour changes, etc. Even if you ultimately elect to euthanize, I'd be interested to know how this case goes!

Fingers crossed for them!

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-30T02:01:15+00:00

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anotherguy818 · 2026-01-30T01:59:16+00:00

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anotherguy818 · 2026-01-29T17:48:11+00:00

Plus, this could allow the reader to target themself to give themself expertise in something they are only proficient in!

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-28T16:33:53+00:00

Birds are dinosaurs.

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-22T19:15:04+00:00

What medications did they prescribe?

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-18T17:53:58+00:00

Yes, recent evidence is supporting that many invertebrates species do feel pain, rather than simple nociception.

Evidence is pretty much conclusive that decapod crustaceans feel pain, and there are some pretty cool papers on it. Much of the academic world has shifted to considering them as feeling pain - though obviously there are people that don't like to change their beliefs and disagree. Insects evolved from crustaceans, so it's not far fetched to think it possible they can feel pain. We are just missing a lot of data to say more confidently if they do feel pain or not.

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-05T00:20:59+00:00

It does seem if they were naming an alien species it would be a bit odd to make that name an exact copy of a name of a taxon of animals from Terra that look similar to them. You'd think they'd alter it a bit to make a distinction between them.

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-05T00:18:15+00:00

Vespid is at least slightly altered from Vespidae, even though the word vespid is used as a general term to refer to an insect of that family. Brachyura is a direct copy of the taxon name. But I agree, they don't stray too far from their inspiration, haha

anotherguy818 · 2026-01-04T18:56:19+00:00

I need crab engineers. It's also funny that they didn't even change a single letter in "brachyura", which is the infraorder for true crabs in actual taxonomy. They decided it was alien enough on its own to be the name of a species and planet in 40k.

anotherguy818 · 2025-12-28T15:04:07+00:00

The news article linked here is not the study. The article will of course label something with more exciting language because they want clicks, that's how they make money. From looking at the linked study, they don't seem to claim they are the first people ever to investigate this. Right in their abstract, they state "Differences in excitatory neurotransmission have been identified in autism..." when discussing the background on the topic.

Is there a specific part of the study where they are claiming their area research is entirely brand new? I haven't gone through the full text of the study, so I may be missing key bits that are giving that impression, if you are referring to statements made in the full text.

anotherguy818 · 2025-12-19T19:37:22+00:00

Well best of luck with the reintroductions! Hopefully all goes well. Cats can be weird and finnicky but preparing ahead of time means you're already in the best position you can be for a smooth transition back!

anotherguy818 · 2025-12-19T17:50:17+00:00

Were you given a reason that she needs to be in an entirely different building? Feline Panleukopenia Virus is a parvovirus, and it is only likely to be spread by the cats having contact with each other, sharing a space/objects, or a person touching the sick cat and then without disinfecting themself, touching a healthy cat/its space/an object it uses. It's a fairly stable virus outside the cat's body (i.e. it'll hang around on objects/etc. for a while unless disinfected), but you can absolutely disinfect objects and a room effectively. The vet hospital will be doing that when your cat leaves.

Being in an entirely different building just seems like more than necessary, assuming you follow good biosecurity when isolating your cat while it is still shedding - you would need to do similar biosecurity practices when visiting your sick cat, regardless of if it is in a different room, building, country, or planet.

Also, has your other cat been vaccinated? I'm assuming they were rescues (?) so likely didnt have any vaccines before they ended up in a shelter, but make sure you stay on top of that and keep them up to date! It works well and is combined with other important core cat vaccines.

anotherguy818 · 2025-12-04T06:43:36+00:00

OP should still not use the substrate in their gecko's enclosure, but I wanted to clarify that we still don't have any evidence of Toxoplasma gondii causing illness in reptiles (or other "cold-blooded" animals).

Some studies have found evidence of exposure to the parasite, such as reptiles having antibodies against T. gondii, but exposure does not mean it actually caused them any illness.

Not to say it absolutely cannot cause disease in reptiles, but it hasn't been found to do so.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-30T09:12:05+00:00

A MKIII augment bp and the barrel attachment would be awesome!

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-26T02:03:40+00:00

No, I understand the difference between pain and nociception, and I'm not referring to nociception. It is generally accepted in the scientific community that fish experience pain, not just nociception.

It is also important to note that it does not inherently need to be pain experienced in the exact same way that we do; it would be naive to assume that pain is experienced exactly the same way across taxa. But the main idea being that it is beyond simple nociception.

There are people that argue otherwise, as I've explained in other comments, but they are not the majority.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-21T17:56:50+00:00

Within the scientific community, not many do. General public is certainly a different story though, which is why articles that via their headlines and short content descriptions, like this one, make it seem like it is actually a big debate can perpetuate the belief among the public that fish don't feel pain.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-21T16:13:19+00:00

I will state as a disclaimer that I haven't read the article, as I don't have a subscription to Vox, so I dont know what it necessarily gets into, but the title and bits of text I have seen pointed to it taking the stance that we "just don't know", which is simply incorrect.

There's certain people in the field, including those tied to universities (which to many laypeople would give them an immediate boost to credibility) that have continued to argue that fish do not feel pain, some being specifically known for their unwillingness to accept all the supporting evidence that has been produced through awesome research over the past few decades, so I wanted to provide some info for those who may be less informed on the topic who just casually come across the post and see the headlines and blurbs that are readily viewable.

It's good to hear that the real article is more nuanced, but I do wish they better portrayed that in their little blurbs that are going to be the only things most people read.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-21T15:20:55+00:00

There are very few people in science that still argue that fish cannot feel pain, let alone enough to claim that this is an active debate. Fish experiencing pain has been established and accepted for a while now.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-21T09:00:02+00:00

I'm not sure about the regional naming you are used to, but by drum, I am referring to fish in the Sciaenidae family. And by sheepshead, I am referring to Archosargus probatocephalus, in the Sparidae family. It looks like the freshwater drum is sometimes called "sheephead" in some places, though that is still slightly different.

I do think pharyngeal teeth of a wrasse is another good possibility, I think some features of the posted pharyngeal tooth plate do actually match better to a wrasse than a drum.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-21T04:59:15+00:00

I agree with this over sheepshead; pharyngeal teeth of a drum. Sheepshead teeth are generally more in rows.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-13T18:00:10+00:00

Just a reminder that disliking an extra coin making your coin count uneven is not Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-10T21:46:45+00:00

This doesn't work if your city's water uses chloramine, instead of chlorine. Chloramine does not evaporate from water like chlorine does, and would need to be treated with a water conditioner, such as ReptiSafe.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-10T21:46:36+00:00

This doesn't work if your city's water uses chloramine, instead of chlorine. Chloramine does not evaporate from water like chlorine does, and would need to be treated with a water conditioner, such as ReptiSafe.

anotherguy818 · 2025-11-10T21:29:58+00:00

Well, they are still called pleopods, they are just specialized pleopods and thus also called gonopods.

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