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If your ornamental fish is sick, should you treat it or give up on it?

Here are some treatments for common diseases. If you use the right method, they can be cured. Don’t think that it’s time to change the tank to a new one when you see your fish is sick. Fish lovers who have never treated their ornamental fish will never become big fish breeders.

Scale erection disease

In the early stage of the disease, the fish will turn black and look very rough. The scales will stand up, and it looks like a swollen pine cone. The scales stand up because of edema of the scales. This fish disease is more dangerous for tropical fish. If you are not careful, it will take the fish's life. You must pay special attention.

Treatment method: 1. Mix 2% salt water and 3% baking soda and give the sick fish a separate medicinal bath.

Treatment method 2: You can also add 45,000 units of penicillin per liter of water, which can also have a good effect.

Treatment method 3: Feed 30-80 mg of oxytetracycline bait per kilogram of fish every day for five or six consecutive days. If it is a more ferocious tropical fish suffering from this disease, you can dilute the drug and inject it into the bait fish first with an injection, and then feed it to the sick fish.

Rust

Fish with this disease will have rusty spots on their bodies, which are different from those of white spot disease and are slightly smaller. The diseased fish will become black and dull, become thin and shiver easily, and will gradually die of weight loss. This disease will not cause large-scale and rapid death of ornamental fish, but it is a chronic consumption that is rampant in many tropical fish.

Treatment method 1. Evenly dissolving 15 grams of chloramphenicol in every cubic meter of water can effectively control the occurrence of rust disease in tropical fish.

Prevention methods 1. Maintaining good water quality is an important way to prevent this disease. It is also important to change the water in the aquarium regularly and maintain a relatively sparse fish density.

Tail rot

Tropical fish with this disease will have their tail fins and scales fall off and rot, which can happen all year round. In severe cases, the entire tail fin may even rot away. Even if such tropical fish can still survive, they will lose their ornamental value.

Treatment method: 1. Put the sick fish into 12.5PPM chloramphenicol water and soak it for half an hour. Then put the sick fish in an aquarium with good water quality to observe its condition.

Treatment method 2: Bath the sick fish in a 25PPM oxytetracycline aqueous solution for about 10 minutes every day until it recovers.

Treatment method 3: Soak the diseased fish in furazolidone solution once a day for three minutes each time.

Because everyone has different views on fish diseases and uses different medications, if you have a better medication plan, you can leave a message and share it with everyone.

Of course it is treatment. Every life is worthy of our respect.

Treatment. Because ornamental fish are also lives. If they are sick, they should be treated promptly. This is a respect for life.

I think we should give up because there are other fish in the fish tank and they all live in the same living environment. If it is not cured well, it will affect the growth of other fish.

How to treat ornamental fish with Saprolegniasis

Saprolegniasis of ornamental fish

Ornamental fish may be infected with a series of diseases due to improper care during the breeding process. Today we are talking about Saprolegniasis in ornamental fish. If the ornamental fish in your home are newly infected with Saprolegniasis, the breeder cannot distinguish it with the naked eye. Generally, the symptoms of Saprolegniasis will only be seen when the disease becomes serious. What we have to do is to prevent it before it happens.

Saprolegniasis is commonly known as white hair disease and skin mold disease. When the disease first occurs, that is, when the bacteria have just parasitized the fish body (eggs), it is generally difficult to see the abnormality of the diseased fish (eggs) with the naked eye. By the time the naked eye can see it, the bacteria have already invaded the fish body or the egg membrane, multiplying and growing inward and outward in large numbers, becoming gray-white old cotton-like substances covering the surface of the diseased fish (eggs), and secreting enzymes to decompose fish tissues, causing the embryonic development of fish eggs to stop; causing the muscles of the diseased fish to rot, slow down their movements, lose their appetite and die, causing great economic losses to aquaculture production.

1. Pathogens of Saprolegniasis

Aquatic molds such as Saprolegnia and Achyranthes.

2. Symptoms and lesions of Saprolegniasis

When fish are first infected, no symptoms are seen. Once "white hair" is found on the fish, the hyphae have already invaded the wound of the fish and spread to the gaps in the muscle tissue. As the disease progresses, the muscles in the affected area rot, the appetite decreases, and eventually death occurs. This disease can occur all year round. In order to prevent the occurrence of Saprolegniasis, in addition to paying attention to avoiding damage to the fish body and parasite bites during operation, a small amount of salt can be added to the water to inhibit the occurrence of Saprolegniasis. The fish body grows "white hair" and is grayish white. The hyphae entangle and adhere to the cell tissue of the wound, causing tissue necrosis. At the same time, the sick fish loses appetite and eventually dies.

3. Treatment of Saprolegniasis in Ornamental Fish

1. Sprinkle a mixture of 250 grams of table salt and 250 grams of baking soda into a 100 cm × 55 cm × 45 cm fish tank. Do this several times and you will see significant results.

2. Dissolve 0.3g of malachite green or methylene blue in 100kg of water, soak the fish for 10-20 minutes, and the mycelium will fall off after a few days. Soak the fish in 1.2%-3% salt water once a day for 5-10 minutes each time.

3. Soak in a malachite green solution of one to two parts per million (1-2ppm) for 20-30 minutes every day.

4. Mix 2 parts per million (2ppm) potassium permanganate with 1% salt water and soak the diseased fish for 20-30 minutes.

Saprolegniasis of ornamental fish

5. Raise the water temperature to inhibit the growth of water mold. A 15-watt ultraviolet lamp can be used for several hours a day to effectively inhibit and eliminate water mold.

This disease generally occurs in low water temperature environments below 20℃ and is most likely to spread in early spring and late winter. Saprolegniasis has no strict selectivity for hosts, and all kinds of farmed fish, from fish eggs to adult fish, are easily infected. Fish in densely-stocked wintering ponds, fish in thin water bodies in spring, or fish in a hungry state are most susceptible to Saprolegniasis. When stocking fish in spring, improper operation can also cause an outbreak of Saprolegniasis.

Disinfection is the main method for preventing and controlling Saprolegniasis. You can choose some milder disinfectants to disinfect the water body, put in some submerged granular bottom modifiers, and then use some drugs to kill Saprolegniasis. The specific method is: Be as careful as possible when the fish enter the pond, and do not injure the fish. Soak the fish in a 3% to 5% salt water solution for 8 to 10 minutes before entering the pond. Avoid handling farmed fish at water temperatures below 15°C to avoid frostbite or abrasions on the fish. If the fish is found to be infected with Saprolegniasis, mix salt and baking soda in a ratio of 3:1 and spray the entire pond at a concentration of 1 mg/L; if the situation is more serious, increase the dosage appropriately. Injured broodstock can be smeared on the affected area with 4% sulfonic wine; fish eggs can be soaked in 4% formalin for 2 to 3 minutes.

Saprolegniasis is a common disease of ornamental fish, which usually occurs in spring, so we must pay special attention to it in this season. No matter what disease the ornamental fish is infected with, it is closely related to water quality and hygiene. Therefore, while we are treating Saprolegniasis of ornamental fish, we must not neglect the daily care of ornamental fish.

In this video, Lao Bai filmed his own method of treating Saprolegniasis in fish.

Malachite green is used to treat Saprolegniasis? It is OK for ornamental fish, but forbidden for edible fish

If it is a tropical fish, slowly raise the temperature to 30 degrees, once every half a day, 2-3 degrees each time, and then add yellow powder according to the size of the tank and the instructions. Yellow powder is a kind of medicine, available in fish stores. If there is no grass, you can also add salt, but if there is grass and the water temperature exceeds 26 or 28, death will occur.

If it is a cold water fish, go to the fish store and buy special medicine for it and follow the instructions.

In normal breeding, if there is no problem, do not use medicine. Observe frequently and if you find any problem, you can add some iodine-free salt.