Aquarium Fish Health: Dealing With Cotton Mouth Sickness (Mouth fungus)
by:
John Morris
Cotton Mouth sickness likewise cognize as Mouth Plant life
is a sickness your fish can get and it of necessity
to be dealt with quickly. Cotton Mouth sickness is not as common as the spell spot disease, but, it is extremely
infectious and contagious.
The victim fish shows a whitish plant life
round the cheeks and lips. The lips may become swollen and rot away. Sometimes a rotten strip of lip attached only at one end wish come in and out of the mouth as the fish breathes.
Fish infected with Mouth Plant life
lose their craving
and their movement become sluggish. If no adequate treatment is given, the whole frontal part of the head may be eaten up away finally and the fish dies.
Unless the affected fish is of consideration value, it should be killed before this fatal sickness attack sthe else occupants, of the tank. Think just about it... is trying to save the life of one fish worth risking the death of the rest of the fish in your aquarium?
But if you insist on keeping the fish or in case the infection has already been passed on to else occupants, the following treatment is advised:
- Scrub the mouth of the victim fish with a soft material swaybacked in strong salt solution. Then you must then support the patreat isolated in a bucket or jar containing a strong salt water.
- Try scrub the lips with a 5 per cent silver mercury preparation.
- Do a resolution of Antibiotic drug or Aureomycuin by dissolving 50mg per gallon of water, a rapid cure is expected inside
48 hours.
You can try all of the above remedies, but the most common remedy is the popular Group blue solution. To perform this remedy the sick fish should be placed in a jar, bucket or a treatment tank into which has been adscititious a group per blue to colour the water deep blue.
