FISH
Any detectable level of this parameter indicates inadequate filtration.
What is ammonia?
This specialized ventral skin region in frogs act like built-in hydration patch, allowing water and electrolyte absorption directly from the environment?
What is the pelvic patch?
This reptile physiologic requirement is considered vital and must be species-specific.
What is Preferred Optimum Temperature Zone (POTZ)?
This husbandry factor is one of the most common causes of disease in pet birds.
What is poor diet /poor nutrition?
This dietary deficiency in guinea pigs causes major illness.
What is Vitamin C deficiency?
This syndrome occurs when immature biofilters cannot handle ammonia load.
What is New Tank Syndrome?
This fungal disease affect amphibian skin and is reportable.
What is Chytridiomycosis?
These parameters are commonly evaluated when assigning a BCS in lizards.
What are epaxial muscle mass, prominence of spinal/pelvic bones, tail base fat stores, and overall body contour?
Seed-only diets predispose birds to this nutritional deficiency pattern.
What is Hypovitaminosis A?
Rabbits and rodents commonly develop this GI problem from poor fiber intake.
What is GI stasis (ileus)?
What is methemoglobin?
This syndrome causes ventral erythema and petechiae in frogs.
What is Red Leg Syndrome?
This process is reptilian hibernation.
What is brumation?
This lymphoid organ unique to birds, located near the cloaca, is essential for B-cell maturation and is commonly affected in juvenile avian immune diseases.
What is the Bursa of Fabricius?
What is pododermatitis ("Sore Hocks")?
This pathogen causes "Cotton Mouth", saddleback lesions, and septicemia.
What is Flavobacterium columnare?
This deficiency causes "Short Tongue Syndrome".
What is Hypovitaminosis A?
Improper temperatures commonly lead to this broad category of disease in reptiles.
What is husbandry-related disease / Metabolic dysfunction?
Poor ventilation and dirty cages commonly predispose birds to this body system disease.
What is Respiratory Disease?
Dental overgrowth is common in rabbits and herbivorous rodents because teeth are this type.
What is elodont dentition?
This koi disease causes branchial necrosis and high mortality at 60-77F.
What is Koi Herpesvirus (CyHV-3)?
This viral disease causes sudden death and cloacal petechiae?
What is Ranavirus?
Failure to provide proper UVB commonly predisposes reptiles to this condition.
What is Metabolic Bone Disease?
This circovirus disease of parrots commonly causes progressive feather dystrophy, feather loss, beak deformities, and immunosuppression.
What is Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD)?
This unique hematologic cells, commonly noted on blood smears, are characteristic of New World Camelids.
What are elliptical erythrocytes?