Have any of your fish ever caught a disease?

[Eelzor]

At least once a day, I see on the forums there is someone with a fish that has a disease. Now, not saying this is bad, wrong or not normal - It's perfectly fine. It has just intrigued me to take such notice that it seems to happen reasonably often. I guess these are just newbies learning, but my fish in my whole life have never caught a disease, ever (Even as a newbie ). Have yours? Vote now and make your say count! B)

 

[Doggfather]

Lucky Eel!

My dwarf Gourami just died of TB, thats about all i'v ever had though...

 

[guppykeeper]

I have had fish die from deasese... Like my Bettas.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I've had whitespot and internal bacteria. I have an awful lot of fish so I don't think that's too bad really.

 

[Ahmad]

After so many years I am glad to say No.

I Just make sure the only thing I add to my tank water is dechlorinator an nothing else. Many water changes aswell....all this keeps illness down since your cleaning your tank many times....Atleast thats what I think. Also Great Filtration is an important Key to disease!

You should also have a seperate tank to take out any fish that have fallen ill...That helps keep the illness to only one fish and not to spread to all the fish in the tank! (I have 2 10gallons for this situation).

 

[Eelzor]

I try to keep my nitrates ppm below 5 at all times. Even though my fish don't need it.

 

[Grams]

yes i have had my fair share of dieases

 

[mrV]

Fishes carry along many diseases although they dsn't show any sign of illness.

 

[Eelzor]

Fishes carry along many diseases although they dsn't show any sign of illness.

Correct point mrv , but I'm sure you know what I mean.

 

[mrV]

Yep and I answered your question "yes"

 

[Wyld-Fyre]

Still relatively new to fish-keeping, but luckily no casualties to diseases yet. Everything that's been said above, but also I don't use chemicals, feed 'live' food (because I don't know how 'clean' they are, and I aerate the water for a good half day.

My beauties are still healthy, colourful and 'energetic'. Here's hoping I never catch anything.......

 

[millym]

we've had a couple cases of finrot (cured) , a couple of cases of fungus ( 2 died, 4 survived)& most recently a fish (red eye tetra) that developed flexibacter(we think) mouth fungus a day after we bought him. didnt have the heart to take him back so tried paragon in the hosp tank & melafix & he's now fine all traces of the disease gone.
we've noticed that fish bought from the same shops seem to be susceptible to the same disease. what i mean is the fish that developed fungus(danios) came from one shop & the ones that have had finrot came from another,but same shop at different times (does that make sense ) and we only use lfs that have healthy looking fish,clean tanks etc.. we've also still got 3 neons that look like they have dropsy ( theyre fat....really fat) we've treated them 3 times no improvement but they still are very active,eat,fight etc etc ....we really were stumped as what to do with them, we kept them quarantined for ages but have ended up (3 months ago) putting them back in the main tank & theyve been there ever since. we were very reluctant to euthanase fish that seem quite happy and in no distress. no other fish has come down with the same problem (fat neons have been like this for quite a long time now)
i supose the stress of being moved etc etc must affect a lot of fish & some fish shops must have higher levels of certain bacteria/fungus floating around than others.
we do test our tank & do 25% water changes at least weekly & always are keeping an eye on everyone in the tank to make sure theyre all ok.... i hate hate hate it when you get a sick fish & even worse you have to euthanase. i have to confess its my other half that does the dirty deed - i cant bear it.
kribs youre very lucky!!! no disease but then im sure you look after your fish very well. we try to but still end up with the odd ailment every now & again.........i suppose its just like us people

 

[Guppylover]

The disease I had the most was fungus... It attacked my tank twice killing nearly every single fish I had in there ... now I'm really careful around that tank... and I do 3 water changes a week, it really helps and I haven't seen fungus for a long time
The only other disease I had was tubercolosis... only effected one fish, so that was pretty lucky!

 

[BIGMAC]

Have had two outbreaks of ich in seperate tanks each case was after adding a new fish,but it soon cleared up

 

[pandapops001]

I had velvet slime, and although i treated i still lost my black molly, luckily nothing else, but he will be missed greatly.

BTW - what is ICH, i've looked in all the books i have, but cant find any reference to it. Is it short for something ??