Mycobacterium Marinum

[wataugachicken]

I took the "thousands" to be a humorous exaggeration pointing out poeciliid fecundity.

Love it. Are you consistently this verbose? If so, please continue. :headbang2:

 

[sosgal721]

if they have myco marinum, they could definitely make your turtle sick. euthanasia would be the healthier option overall.

Thats what makes it such a hard decision. I'm finding it hard to justify killing so many fish simply because no one else wants them for the same reason I have too many. If they were fed to the turtle then at least they would be taking the place of feeder fish, but then they could make him sick and taking him to the vet just once would cost about as much as 500 feeder fish. But if I euthanize them and feed my turtle feeder fish, how do I know that the feeder fish don't just have the same sickness. Then again I am probably over thinking it.

I took the "thousands" to be a humorous exaggeration pointing out poeciliid fecundity.

Exactly. I think they should limit livebearer sales to 1 female. They are basically born pregnant and will fill up the tank with fish anyways and you will only have to purchase 1 fish.