(1) Pathogen and transmission route: the pathogen is mycobacterium. Transmission: water fleas, sick fish or tools. There are several species of tropical fish susceptible to this disease. Such as two years of tiger, more than one year of small peach kernel, red peach kernel, trailing dragon. These fish are particularly susceptible to death from this disease. However, the incidence is not high. The natural mortality rate is not high.
(2) Symptoms: Hard bubbles grow from the muscle layer of the fish, and sometimes a large amount of pus and blood can flow out.
(3) treatment: to be bubbles ripe open and drain the pus, and then rinsed with furacilin water, coated with furacilin dry powder or antibiotic powder can be received better results. The serious ones are immediately eliminated, and those who are found to have bulging bags on their bodies are fished out and treated separately. Large fish can be injected intramuscularly with penicillin (40,000 to 80,000 units) or rinse the sores with medicinal solution. Prevention of this disease should keep the water clean and prevent fish trauma.
Parrotfish water mold disease control
(1) pathogen and symptoms: the pathogen is a variety of water mold. Infection pathway: water flea, sick fish. Raised 2 to 3 years of fish houses have mold everywhere, new water 2 to 3 days can be contaminated with mold. In the fish without trauma or when the fish is robust does not develop. On the contrary, the disease can develop immediately. Although infectious, but the morbidity rate is not high, the mortality rate is not high, but the disease is long (several months), and it is not easy to cure. White long hairs or white hairs grow outside the fish trauma. Fish eggs are more susceptible to infection.
(2) Treatment: there is no specific drug, to prevent the main. Keep the water quality clean, and fish body robust. Daily operation and fish should be light, do not cause fish body trauma. Use 0.5%~1% salt to inhibit the growth of mold. Ventilation and more sunshine, increased ultraviolet radiation, as well as flowing water are the best preventive measures. In addition, you can also fish out the affected fish, the trauma of the white hairs with tweezers to remove, in the affected area coated with some furacilin dry powder, has a certain effect.
What to do if your parrotfish is not red now
The fish will have some discoloration when they first arrive in your tank because of the lack of acclimatization. It will get better as they adapt. Gradually adding pellets (that add color) to the feed will also make the color better. Give two hours or more of light a day. Frozen shrimp are great for color enhancement, but they cost more. Fish that are used to eating live bait will not like pellets as much. Before feeding the fish love to eat the feed, first a small amount of pellets can increase the color, to be less, when the fish adapt, gradually add more pellets, reduce the love of the feed, slowly turn around.
Why parrotfish have black spots
Breeding parrotfish requires weak and less hard water.
There are several possibilities for parrotfish to turn black and develop black spots:
1 Parrotfish can also develop black spots when they are frightened, which will disappear after a while.
2 Parrotfish like old water, if you just change the water to appear this situation, may be the water quality is not suitable for the original trap.
General water quality is not good before you should change the water, the water quality is not good, then you should change the water immediately, re-regulate the water quality, the water quality should be similar to the previous.
3 Red parrots sometimes develop black spots as they grow, but they fade after a while. One of my previous ones did this, and it got better after a while. (Since parrotfish are hybridized from cichlidae, it's not unusual for them to develop black spots when they're young.)
During this period, you should pay more attention to the water quality and feed, and if you want the red parrot color to be more beautiful, feed more shrimp or red-enhancing feed like Bao Zeng Hong.