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Whitespot - Cryptocaryon irritans
Symptoms: flicking and scratching against various surfaces, small (1mm) white spots covering fins and body.
Comments: this is a highly infectious disease that spreads rapidly and may need an equally rapid medicinal response.
Black Spot
Symptoms: small (1mm) black spots on the body. Fish will flick and scratch.
Comments: spots are not usually so numerous as those connected with whitespot, neither are they so deadly. Surgeonfish seem to be particularly vulnerable.
Gill and Fin Flukes
Symptoms:Flicking and scratching against rocks and other surfaces, rapid breathing, cloudy eyes, white patches on body, worm-like parasites sometimes visible but not always.
Comments: This is another disease that is highly infectious and can be fatal if not treated quickly. It is caused by small worm-like parasites. They multiply quickly and can clog the gill of the fish causing slow suffocation.
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Finrot
Symptoms: Erosion of fins and fin rays, reddened areas, lethargy, poor appetite.
Comments: This disease is usually associated with stress, sometimes brought on by poor water quality. Healthy animals can usually resist infections. Finrot usually begins as a mild external infection causing a reddening of the base of the fins. In severe cases, the animal's body and mouth may be eaten away.
Head and Lateral Line Erosion - HLLE
Symptoms: Erosion of the lateral line and the formation of pits in the skin.
Comments: This disease is usually caused by poor environmental conditions and poor water quality. If conditions are not improved, the condition of the fish will slowly deteriorate and the animal may die.
Cauliflower Disease - Lymphocystis
Symptoms: Small warty clumps on the fins or body that resemble small cauliflowers.
Comments: This disease is caused by a virus and often looks worse than it is. It is rarely fatal and will usually clear up on its own if optimum water quality is maintained.
Treatment: There is no effective treatment for this disease. A short freshwater dip may help. Maintain optimum water quality and symptoms should improve with time. If a secondary bacterial infection should occur, move the animal to a hospital tank and treat with antibiotics.
Symptoms: flicking and scratching against various surfaces, small (1mm) white spots covering fins and body.
Comments: this is a highly infectious disease that spreads rapidly and may need an equally rapid medicinal response.
Black Spot
Symptoms: small (1mm) black spots on the body. Fish will flick and scratch.
Comments: spots are not usually so numerous as those connected with whitespot, neither are they so deadly. Surgeonfish seem to be particularly vulnerable.
Gill and Fin Flukes
Symptoms:Flicking and scratching against rocks and other surfaces, rapid breathing, cloudy eyes, white patches on body, worm-like parasites sometimes visible but not always.
Comments: This is another disease that is highly infectious and can be fatal if not treated quickly. It is caused by small worm-like parasites. They multiply quickly and can clog the gill of the fish causing slow suffocation.
* no pic
Finrot
Symptoms: Erosion of fins and fin rays, reddened areas, lethargy, poor appetite.
Comments: This disease is usually associated with stress, sometimes brought on by poor water quality. Healthy animals can usually resist infections. Finrot usually begins as a mild external infection causing a reddening of the base of the fins. In severe cases, the animal's body and mouth may be eaten away.
Head and Lateral Line Erosion - HLLE
Symptoms: Erosion of the lateral line and the formation of pits in the skin.
Comments: This disease is usually caused by poor environmental conditions and poor water quality. If conditions are not improved, the condition of the fish will slowly deteriorate and the animal may die.
Cauliflower Disease - Lymphocystis
Symptoms: Small warty clumps on the fins or body that resemble small cauliflowers.
Comments: This disease is caused by a virus and often looks worse than it is. It is rarely fatal and will usually clear up on its own if optimum water quality is maintained.
Treatment: There is no effective treatment for this disease. A short freshwater dip may help. Maintain optimum water quality and symptoms should improve with time. If a secondary bacterial infection should occur, move the animal to a hospital tank and treat with antibiotics.
