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Aquarium fish illness PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Aquarium fish illness and how to discover it: When your fish will be ill probably this is one of the most distressing times of your aquarium. Your mind will be racing by thinking what the spots are covered on your fish, or wool-like, small tufts on the body of fish. Then you will enforce to think whether these are curable or not. Make sure that it will infect all the other fish in the aquarium if you don’t take necessary step to that. Certainly that time it will make you worry and you will feel distress. If you will found any illness to your fishes that induce to diseases. These diseases are caused by micro-organisms which are present in the water. In fact when the normal defense powers of fishes are weakened then this micro-fauna will grab the opportunity infect which are also a part of the micro-organisms.

Different ways aquarium fish suffered from stress

In fact the stress to the fish starts from the living the breeding farm till the customer buys them for their aquarium from the retailer. If you are a novice you should know how to handle fish perfectly.

Environment is another cause of aquarium fish stress which includes quality if water. You should consider an environment for different fish species that will conducive for them as they are from different water quality. You should consider these quality parameters like pH, water hardness, high nitrite and carbon dioxide level, low dissolved oxygen salinity of water, water temperature and others.

Stress to the fish in the aquarium could lead by any change in environment like physical damage, leaches, lice and introduction of new fishes, which makes also non conducive to the life of fish in aquarium tank. That is why that fish should be isolated for some times to avoid diseases to other fishes.

Another important factor of the stress to aquarium fishes is change in weather condition. When there is heavy downfall as you know the weather will become cold and this could lead to stress in aquarium.

To develop performance in fish immune system, you should provide appropriate diet for their good nutritional requirement. Other wise there will be stress in fish if the fish immune system struggles to operate efficiently.

Warning signs of illness in aquarium fish:

If you watch the fishes in the aquarium very firmly you can easily know when your fish is going through stress. Be prepared with warning signs like fish swimming with clamps up in their fins, hovering in a corner, heavy breathing and fish brushing its body against objects. So you need to react immediately to those symptoms of diseases of fishes.

How to reduce stress in aquarium:

If you want to reduce stress in aquarium, you need to guide against factors that lead to stress. These are some tips to prevent stress that ultimately leads to diseases.

  1. You need to gather detail information about the fish specie that you will be introducing to your tank. You should ask the requirements of those fishes before you buy from the retailer.
  2. It is important to know the right food for your fish as they may be different species. So be focus on the rich in nutritional ingredients foods to your fishes in aquarium that you have to provide.
  3. Keep the environment clean.
  4. When you want to introduce new fish, make sure it's quarantine to reduce the risk of disease.
 
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