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Saltwater Fish Treatment Methods
Here are you will find a few and common saltwater diseases treatment methods that are available when diseases strike on of your saltwater fish.
Stick to commerical and not homemade remedies
Try to use treatments that are available commercially instead of homemade remedies.
Remove the activated carbon from your filters system when you medicate your aquarium. As carbon neutralizes many medications.
Direct aquarium treatment method
This involves applying therapeutic agents directly into your saltwater aquarium with the fish that has the disease.
This method is sometimes called the long bath but this methd is not always effective though.
Medication can be absorbed by the aquarium decorations or filter media or they may be toxic to filter bacteria.
Fish medications are also toxic to invertebrates therefore is better to isolate the fish in another aquarium tank.
The hospital tank
Most aquarist isolates the fish that is infected in a quarantine tank. This is also called the isolation tank or “isolation tank”.
The fish or invertebrate can be evaluated for signs of disease before it is introduced back into the main saltwater aquarium.
Setting up the hospital tank will reduce the likelihood of the disease spreading to other fishes. It helps you to treat the fish without subjecting other fish to the treatment. It also helps observe and diagnose the ailing fish better.
As you become more and more expert in this hobby, you will get expensive fish that you won’t want to expose to disease. A hospital will be mandatory. It can also be used as a quarantine tank as long as it has not recently housed a fish that has a disease.
The dip treatment method
This one involves removing the infected fish from the aquarium and dipping it into a bath containing therapeutic agent or fresh water.
The dip is brief enough so that you will not injure the fish, but long enough to kill the disease.
This method doesn’t treat the main saltwater aquarium but solely the fish.
The freshwater dip involves dipping a saltwater fish that is infested with parasites into a freshwater bath for three to five minutes.
How to preapre the dip tank:
Internal medication
Some remedies must have to be done internally and not some form of adding the medication to the water. This is usually done by injection or by feeding the remedy to the fish.
Do not do the injecting yourself if your not experienced! Feeding the fish the food that is medicated is as hard as well.
Text and Photo Source: Saltwater Aquarium Online Guide
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