Fish health

One of the best ways of dealing with ‘Fish Diseases’ is preventing them from occurrence in the 1st place. If you have the habit of not overcrowding, not overfeeding, doing partial changes of water at a minimum time interval of two weeks and, last, but not the least, quarantine all the new plants and fish, then you have averted almost 90% of the whole range of fish problems.

Toeing the line with KIS way to simplify aquarium keeping, two different medicines are normally used to treat fish illnesses. Salt is the 1st one. It needs to be added to water at the rate of 1 tbsp/gallon. Salt helps in preventing or killing majority of parasite problems, aids in healing of wounds faster, and pacifies the fish. Copper can be termed as the second one. The simplest way of using it is buying an ‘Aquarium Medicine’ containing copper in certain form. The most popular variety is ‘Had-A-Snail’. Apart from killing snails, it carries out the killing of all the invertebrates including hydra, parasites, shrimp, and worms. Aquarisol is another copper medicine. While using this medicine, it is advisable to follow the ‘less is more’ rule.