Water garden fish - ailments and treatments II
The commonest of organisms are the spores of Fungus Infection which are present in all water. They infect fish which are out of condition and also develop rapidly in wounds caused by cats or bird, producing whitish or grey threads on the skin or fins or gills, sometimes abundant enough to resemble tufts of cotton. The tufts may be stained green if the water is soupy, but the disease is in no way connected with the thread-like algae called blanketweed.
Treatment of fungus (salt bath mtd)
Treatment for Fungus Infection is to place the fish in a shallow dish to which salt has been added at the rate of two heaped teaspoonfuls per gallon of water (sea salt, if obtainable, is much better than table salt). Keep the fish in the container for three days, changing the water daily and (unless the fish shows sign of distress) increasing the salt content by one teaspoonful each day. After three days hold the fish in a damp cloth and, using a soft brush dipped in weak iodine (solution 1 in 10), brush off the fungus, taking care to avoid touching areas of healthy skin. Return the fish to the pool; the treatment can be repeated after a week if the infection persists. The disease is not infectious from fish to fish. Changing the pool water may clear any suspected pollution, but will not get rid of saprolegnia spores because they will be present in the new water too. Infection is most common in spring before fish have recovered from the effect of their winter fast.
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