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Continued aside but mycobacteriosis (fish TB, which I don't really like as a term since it is not tuberculosis, it's an entirely different mycobacterium though it is one of the very few fish diseases that can be transmitted to humans, again with completely different symptoms from tuberculosis) is basically present in every single fish you buy. And most likely in every aquarium you own. Probably in most of the fish you eat as well. And it will be permanently because mycobacteria can survive basically everything from boiling water and antibiotics to bleach. It's a huge problem in the scientific world because they mass culture zebrafish for experiment subjects and of course your study is worthless if you can't control for a particular disease.Off topic sperging but to confirm, petsmart and petco are terrible. Don't buy shit from them. The petsmart near me hates me, three times I went in and bought out every single fish they had in the store. Most of them are extremely sick, often infected with TB... yea Tuberculosis. The giant breeder farms that supply them are terrible and don't care about breeding healthy animals, they only care about pumping out as many as possible.
It gets out of control when you have high DOC concentrations and low pH, namely running an overstocked and undercleaned tank (or in heavily planted tanks running active aquasoil substrate). If not for mycobacteria running low pH actually saves a lot of fish because it reduces the toxicity of ammonia and keeps most bacteria growth down. But without other bacteria outcompeting them mycobacteria will start getting out of control. It's one of the primary culprits of "old tank syndrome."
I'd say this is irrelevant to the thread at hand but various kinds of mycobacteria can rear their ugly heads in fermentation as well due to the previously stated ability to survive acidic conditions. So cobes might discover some in a future bogwine or bogmead. If a new species is discovered in the resultant hospitalization or autopsy I think mycobacterium hanadyrad gothii would be fitting.