Tropical Fish Disease Mouth

Feb 13, 2012 - My husband got a 5ft Jewel tank off someone, we got all new sponges for the filter & new gravel & let it run for a week with no fish in. Our tank is malawi chicilids, so we had a slate in & made loads of caves for them, after 3 weeks of no problems they then would just start for no reason. We lost 5 in 3 days, & beacause they died behind the slate we had to take all that out. Last week they started with cotton wool disease & mouth rot which we treated with some intrepet No 8 treatment....

Feb 9, 2012 - Hi, I have a 90L tropical fish aquarium. It seems that there is something in my tap water. I know that there probably is ammonia in it and so i am using Nutrafin AquaSafe, but i'm sure that there is some form of fin/mouth rot in the tap water as i have treated the tank for it using treatment and the fish are fine but by the next time i do a water change there is always another sympton appearing of fin/mouth rot??? Is this disease possible in the tap water? If so is there any other sort of...

Feb 13, 2012 - Five common diseases affect the mouths of tropical fish: lymphocystosis, tremode infestation, lateral line disease, vibriosis and cotton mouth. Stress in the tank can...

Feb 10, 2012 - Of all the tropical fish diseases your fish can get, cotton mouth is one of the worst. Why? It's simple. This disease is extremely contagious. If you dont catch it in time and your fish are untreated,...