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Goldfish Care – Types of Goldfish Diseases

Goldfish are susceptible to diseases and here I will discuss the different types of goldfish diseases that fish can develop. Goldfish usually develop diseases or sickness largely due to lack of maintenance on the aquarium. They sometimes can develop them due to injury they suffered by scraping off the protective slime coating that goldfish have on their skin.

Here are the different types of goldfish diseases and illness.

1. White spot disease or ich (Ichtyopthirius)
2. Velvet disease
3. Anchor Worm
4. Argulus
5. Fin and Tail Rot
6. Ulcers
7. Cloudy Eye
8. Mouth Rot
9. KHV Virus

Learn All You Can About Goldfish and How You Can Treat Common Goldfish Diseases & ParasitesThe good thing about all these common fish diseases that happen in goldfish is that they are easily cured with the proper medication and care. Next I will talk about each individual disease and how to properly cure them step by step. Proper goldfish care and action is essential in getting these goldfish back to health and getting the goldfish disease under control.

For more information on what types of medications you should use to treat goldfish diseases and where you can buy effective fish medication please visit Goldfish Medication Treatments For Illnesses and Diseases .

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Debride Medicated Fish Food For Internal Parasites and Diseases

Debride Medicated Food is a treatment medication for both koi and goldfish. Koi and goldfish can become infected with internal worms and parasites causing bacterial infections to occur. Debride Medicated Fish Food will eliminate all internal worms as it contains the active ingredient Praziquantel, a deworming agent. People should treat their fish once a year for internal worms. Left untreated can cause severe damage to internal tissue and organs which is one of the causes of dropsy, which is an internal bacterial infection. Using Debride Medicated Fish Food will help ensure your goldfish and koi stay healthy and disease free.

Tip: Buy Debride Medicated Fish Food Online as it’s cheaper then buying it at your local pet stores. In fact most dealers don’t carry Debride DW Medicated Fish Food 2lb

Debride Medicated Food - Deworming Food For Koi and Goldfish

Debride Medicated Food and is mostly available online. See above link if you wish to purchase some to treat your fish.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Prevent Ich Fish Disease – How To Prevent Ich ( White Spot Disease)

By Jamie Boyle

Many people often wonder ” How Do I Prevent Ich ” from reaching my aquarium and infecting my fish. There are ways in which you can prevent ich from reaching your tank. Here are some simple ich preventative measures you can do to keep ich away and how to prevent white spot disease from reaching your fish:

1. Never buy fish from an aquarium that contain sick fish at a pet store. Look for signs of ich, other external parasites or fish diseases before you make a fish purchase. You may be bringing home more then fish, some hitch hikers as well.

Sarassa Comets2. Before adding new fish to your aquarium or pond you need to quarantine new arrivals for minimum 2-4 weeks to make sure fish are okay and healthy. If not, you may be introducing ich, other external parasites or fish diseases to already healthy fish.

3. When buying aquarium plants or pond plants be sure to disinfect them before placing them in your tank or pond. To do so you can use Potassium Permanganate solution and dip the water plants in it. By doing so you can reduce the chance of introducing ich and other parasites to your aquarium.

4. Never add water to your aquarium or pond from the pet store where you may have bought fish or water plants. Fish should be netted out and water discarded. Water may contain parasites like ich (white spot disease) or other external parasites.

5. Never use the same netting and equipment from other tanks if you have more then one. By using the same net from one tank to another you risk introducing ich and other parasites from a tank that may have been sick. Have a seperate net for each tank.

6. Use an ultraviolet steriliser to help kill ich parasites. As the free swimming ich parasites known as tomites gets killed as they pass through. This may be away to help prevent ich or white spot disease in a way but there is no sure way that all tomites have been killed or destroyed. May help prevent ich but not a 100% sure way to do so.

7. Use CopperSafe From Mardel Labs fish medication to help prevent ich from occuring. One treatment last over a month. It not only helps prevent against ich but velvet and other external parasites as well.

These are just some simple ways you can help reduce the risk, and prevent ich disease from infecting your fish. Preventative measures are the best way to prevent against ich or white spot disease. In case your fish have developed ich or white spots seek ich medication and begin treatment right away.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Kordon Malachite Green Fish Medication For Ich and External Parasites

By Jamie Boyle

Kordon Malachite Green Disease Treatment is an effective fish medication used to treat a wide variety of fish diseases for both freshwater and saltwater. Malachite Green is a medication that I’ve been using for fish treatment for years due to it’s effectiveness at healing and treating fish diseases and parasites including ich.

Kordon Malachite Green treats the following common protozoan parasites: Ichthyophthirius (freshwater ich) , Chilodonella, Costra, Epistylis, Ambiphyra, Oodinium, Cryptocaryon (marine ich) and Trichodina. Malachite Green not only treats against ich and other external parasites but is very effective against fungal infections. Kordon Malachite Green Fish Medication For Ich and External ParasitesThis fish medication works well to control against fungus on fish eggs after fish breeding. By using Malachite Green it helps increase the hatching rate of fish eggs as left untreated the fungus would take over the eggs and kill the baby fry.

Directions: Use 1 teaspoon per every 10 gallons of water. Remove carbon from filter. Perform water 25% water change daily and repeat dosage until fish are treated. Kordon Malachite Green is a very effective fish medication for treatment of ich and other external parasites including fungus found on fish. This is one product that I recommend when fish treatment is needed.

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