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Symptoms: Eyeball looks cloudy and swollen and is protruding. If not treated quickly it can cause blindness and death. Cause: Bacterial infection usually caused by poor water quality. Is it contagious to...
Fish Fungus
Fungus consists of fine white threads known as hyphae that pass through organic material. These hyphae form distinctive patches on fish that resemble cotton wool. Pathology The fungi involved include species of...
Spironucleus in Aquarium Fish
Spironucleus is a flagellate parasite that affects a large group of fish, including ornamental tropical species. Even though the Spironucleus is responsible for Hole in the head disease in fish...
Hexamita in Tropical Fish
Hexamita is a flagellate protozoa that affects the gastrointestinal tract of ornamental fish. Protozoa are microscopic, single-celled organisms that may or may not be parasitic to fish. Hexamita in Tropical...
What Stress Means, and Why it is Bad for Your Fish
Most fish can tolerate environmental conditions that differ somewhat from the natural conditions in which they evolved. This does not mean, however, that they will be as healthy or live...
Common Causes of Fish Stress in the Aquarium
In this section, we list some of the more common stress-inducing conditions. In all cases, the level of stress induced by a specific factor is highly species-dependent. You should be...
Symptoms That Your Discus Is Stressed
In short, stressed fish don't ``act normal'' (with ``normal'' defined according to the species of fish). Once you've had fish for a few weeks, you'll see that each species behaves...
Beef Heart — Tapeworms, and other Nonsense
Let's put this intestinal worm business in perspective. If you're new to the hobby or even been in it for a while one of the great dangers you and your fish...
The Use of Garlic Against Tapeworm in Discus, by Jack Wattley
During a discus presentation in Chicago (and in New York) several years ago I mentioned garlic as a preventative agent against infestations of internal parasites in discus. At that time...
Intestinal Parasites in Tropical Fish
Parasites are a natural components of all healthy ecosystems and all fish, including tropical Discus, can have internal and intestinal parasites. Even though these internal parasites are a natural occurrence,...
