Tropical Fish Disease Symptoms

May 18, 2012 - I have had a bit of an epidemic in my tropical fish tank. We bought 12 neon tetras about a week ago, and one was when we got it home. the trip took about 45 minutes, so we thought this was just a result of this. but over the space of the next week, another 9 died, appearing fine and then two hours later having deteriorated to their death. No other apparant symptoms. Then, our silver bala shark died over night in a similar manner. Now a clown loach is ill, but this time with symptoms. For...

May 18, 2012 - Ok I bought a small sized black moor from the pet store about a week ago he seemed to be settling into my tank with my other fish quite well. Suddenly tonight i noticed he is having great trouble swimming and he struggles to get to the bottom of the tank and keeps floating up to the top, I turned my filter off to make the current of the water not so strong for him to try and swim against. There are no other symptoms (like white spotting/discolouing) just the fact that he is swimming at the...

May 9, 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,...