Tropical Platty Pictures

This tropical fish from South America is one of the ornamental fish that have long been introduced. Platty varieties such as sunset, Hawaii, red coral, black tail, Samson, and platty forked widely spread in the market of ornamental fish.

Care bear fish is actually very easy because platty have a fairly high tolerance to various conditions or water quality. However, to obtain optimal results, water quality must be maintained.

Variety of platty fish ( Xiphophorus sp. )greatly affect quality, coral red for example, including the quality if the body is rather short and red. While the varieties of Samson called good when his body elongated and stocky.

Generally platty fish can be kept in the pool or open cement tanks with high density. However, that environment is often disturbed pests such as dragonfly larvae, small Argulus lice, and lernaea, thus platty susceptible attack by fish diseases.

Dragonfly-larvae’s attack can cause skin of platty injured, while Argulus lice and lernaea who entered by the feed will be attached to the skin of fish. This condition could be make platty fish quality lower. To prevent the pests attack is by soaking platty fish in salt water, PK or abates solution.

White Spot Tropical Fish Disease

White spot is a fish parasite that most often appear. The parasite is long settled in the aquarium. If there are fish to stress, for example in fish that had just entered into the aquarium, then this parasite will soon be activated and infect the skin, gills, fins and eyes of fish.

White Spot prevention alternative is to increase water temperature by 2-3 ° C, can boost the immune system of fish. If accompanied by a treatment, it is quite effective way to eliminate White Spot disease .

Fresh Water Ornamental Fish - Diseases Pictures

White spot or Ich (ick) as it is also known is one of the more common diseases found in fresh water aquarium fish. Ich is a protozoan disease. The scientific name for the disease is Ichthyophthiriasis. It is wide spread in all fresh water fish, but is more common in aquarium fish, most likely because they live in close contact with other species and because of stress.

Black Spot Disease caused by the larvae of parasitic digenetic flukes, Cercaria and Metacercaria. This disease is caused by a parasite (larval trematode) that burrows into the skin of a fish causing the formation of a cyst approximately one millimeter in diameter. In general, even heavy infestations of these parasites do relatively little damage to the fish. Fish with heavy infestations on the eyes may be blinded.

The term "Black Spot" refers to the formation of small cysts in the muscle and skin around which the parasite lives. The cyst accumulates black pigment cells. These cause little harm to the fish. Young fish have growth problems if heavily infected.

Chilodonella is a single cell microscopic parasite that attacks a fish skin and gills. Later the skin may be broken down and the gills destroyed. The fish will rub against objects and become inactive. The fish may also behave like they have irritations, by glancing off aquarium decor, they may have clamped fins and difficulty breathing. If the gills are affected they will stay near the water surface and gasp for air. Cloudy spots develop on the skin. The skin patches turn white and begin to disintegrate and usually over a couple day period. This opens the door to secondary infections and/or fungus.