Cotton disease also known as Mouth Fungus is a disease your fish can get and it should be dealt with quickly. Cotton-mouth is not as common as the while spot disease, but it is highly contagious and infectious.
The victim fish shows a whitish fungus around the cheeks and lips. The lips may be swollen and rot away. Sometimes a rotten strip of lip attached only at one end is transmitted to and from the mouth as the fish breathes.
Fungal infections in the mouth fish lose their appetite and their movement become sluggish. If adequate treatment is given, the entire front of the head eaten away finally and the fish died.
Unless the fish value consideration must be slain before this fatal disease attack sRemoving other tenants, the tanks. Think about it ... tries to save life of a fish worth risking the death of the other fish in your aquarium?
But if you insist on keeping the fish or in cases of infection are shared with other tenants, the following treatment is advised:
- Swabbing the mouth of the victim fish with a soft cloth soaked in a strong salt solution. Then you must then keep a few patreat in a bucket or pot with a strong salt water.
- Try swabbing the lips with a 5 per cent silver mercury preparation.
- Make a solution of Terramycin or by explaining Aureomycuin 50 mg per liter of water, a rapid cure is expected within 48 hours.
You can try all of the above remedies, but the most common remedy is the popular methylene blue. To do fish pain management should be placed in a pot, bucket or a treatment tank to which was a methylene per blue color in the blue water.
The victim fish shows a whitish fungus around the cheeks and lips. The lips may be swollen and rot away. Sometimes a rotten strip of lip attached only at one end is transmitted to and from the mouth as the fish breathes.
Fungal infections in the mouth fish lose their appetite and their movement become sluggish. If adequate treatment is given, the entire front of the head eaten away finally and the fish died.
Unless the fish value consideration must be slain before this fatal disease attack sRemoving other tenants, the tanks. Think about it ... tries to save life of a fish worth risking the death of the other fish in your aquarium?
But if you insist on keeping the fish or in cases of infection are shared with other tenants, the following treatment is advised:
- Swabbing the mouth of the victim fish with a soft cloth soaked in a strong salt solution. Then you must then keep a few patreat in a bucket or pot with a strong salt water.
- Try swabbing the lips with a 5 per cent silver mercury preparation.
- Make a solution of Terramycin or by explaining Aureomycuin 50 mg per liter of water, a rapid cure is expected within 48 hours.
You can try all of the above remedies, but the most common remedy is the popular methylene blue. To do fish pain management should be placed in a pot, bucket or a treatment tank to which was a methylene per blue color in the blue water.
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