| One of the very distressing times in tropical fish | | | | 3) Whitish Film over the eye of the tropical fish. |
| keeping hobby is disease. | | | | This could be because of poor water quality, |
| Here are few tropical fish diseases. | | | | chlorine poisoning or eye fluke.For poor water |
| 1) Appetite Loss of tropical fish | | | | quality you have to change the water. For chlorine |
| When you put new fish in the tank they stop | | | | poisoning you should condition tap water before |
| eating because of the environment problem or | | | | using it. For eye fluke please use proper |
| new fish can be slow to feed because of stress. | | | | medication. |
| For Environmental problem look for any | | | | 4) Effect of Cotton Wool on the tropical fish |
| manifestations of disease and buy a simple | | | | body |
| waster tester. For stress keep patient with | | | | It could be fungus or mouth fungus (columnarius). |
| tropical fish they will get back to normal appetite | | | | To cure this disease you can use anti fungus |
| soon or look for other signs of disease. | | | | medication and a salt bath (1 teaspoon per gallon) |
| 2) Small and white spots on the Body, head and | | | | 5) Pop Eye - cloudy eyes from infection or eye |
| fins of tropical fish. | | | | protrude from head. |
| It could be whitespot (Ichthyophthirius). This is | | | | Pop eye could be because of bacteria, poor water |
| very common disease in new aquarium. There are | | | | quality vitamin deficiency etc. |
| few different cures for this. 1 teaspoon salt per | | | | Treatment: this is hard to treat disease; broad |
| gallon could be one of the cures. | | | | spectrum antibiotic can be used to cure this. |