Cotton Mouth disease also known as fungus is a disease that fish can get and should be treated quickly. Disease cotton mouth is not as common as the time points of the disease, but it is highly infectious and contagious.
The victim fish shows a whitish fungus round the cheeks and lips. Lips can swell and rot . Sometimes a lot of thieves lip attached to one end only move in and out of the mouth as the fish breathes .
Infected fish mouth fungus lose their appetite and their movement becomes slow. If proper treatment is given, the whole front of the head may be corroded and eventually death of the fish.
Unless the fish that consideration of value is reached, must be killed before this fatal disease attack sthe other occupants of the tank. Think about it ... trying to save the life of a fish worth risking the death of the rest of the fish in your aquarium ?
But if you insist on keeping the fish or in the case of infection has been transmitted to other occupants , the following treatment is recommended:
- Samples of secretions from the mouth of the victim fish with a soft cloth dampened with a solution of solid salt cloth. So you should keep patreat isolated in a bucket or a jar containing a very salty water.
- Rub your lips with a preparation of 5 percent mercury silver .
- Make a solution of Terramycin or Aureomycuin dissolving 50 mg per liter of water , the treatment is expected to fast in 48 hours.
You can try all the solutions above , but the most common remedy is the popular solution of methylene blue . To make this remedy the sick fish should be placed in one in which methylene blue was added to the deep blue of the water jar , bucket or a treatment tank .
The victim fish shows a whitish fungus round the cheeks and lips. Lips can swell and rot . Sometimes a lot of thieves lip attached to one end only move in and out of the mouth as the fish breathes .
Infected fish mouth fungus lose their appetite and their movement becomes slow. If proper treatment is given, the whole front of the head may be corroded and eventually death of the fish.
Unless the fish that consideration of value is reached, must be killed before this fatal disease attack sthe other occupants of the tank. Think about it ... trying to save the life of a fish worth risking the death of the rest of the fish in your aquarium ?
But if you insist on keeping the fish or in the case of infection has been transmitted to other occupants , the following treatment is recommended:
- Samples of secretions from the mouth of the victim fish with a soft cloth dampened with a solution of solid salt cloth. So you should keep patreat isolated in a bucket or a jar containing a very salty water.
- Rub your lips with a preparation of 5 percent mercury silver .
- Make a solution of Terramycin or Aureomycuin dissolving 50 mg per liter of water , the treatment is expected to fast in 48 hours.
You can try all the solutions above , but the most common remedy is the popular solution of methylene blue . To make this remedy the sick fish should be placed in one in which methylene blue was added to the deep blue of the water jar , bucket or a treatment tank .
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