One of the most common mistakes which leads to the death of fish in an aquarium is improper care and treatment of diseased fish.
Disease causing bacteria is present in all tanks, but whether or not disease affects your fish depends on how strong the animal's resistance is to the disease. Poor living conditions can make a fish more susceptible to disease, and even if you do everything right, disease may still affect your fish.
Therefore, it is necessary to understand how to determine your fish is ill and what you will need to do in the situation where your fish is ill.
The first step is identifying and determining the problem. It is important to keep an eye on your fish for abnormal behavior and/or appearance. Abnormal behavior may include erratic swimming behavior, lack of movement, lack of desire to eat, gasping for air or rubbing of body or fins. Physically, some symptoms of disease may include discoloration, swelling, rotting fins, and abnormal growths.
After you have determined the symptoms and disease, treatment is the obvious next choice. What many fish owners do not do, however, is to set up a hospital tank for the fish.
It is highly recommended that you move the ill fish to its own environment, and this is done for three reasons: 1. It keeps the fish from spreading its disease to other fish in your community tank; 2. It keeps healthy fish from harassing the diseased fish; 3. It will keep the healthy fish from any adverse reactions to the treatment being given to the ill fish.
Hospital tanks do not need to be very large, as they will commonly hold only one ill fish at a time. It does need filtration and aeration, like a typical tank, though plants and gravel should not be included in the tank environment. Instead, use rocks or some type of structure as a cover for the fish.
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