The fishes
As all the people, the fishes are threatened by the disease. In spite
of attentive cares, an agent carrier of disease always can succeed to slip itself
in the aquarium. Uniformly effectuated, the partial water renewing (see maintenance)
play an important role while liberating the water of the aquarium, polluted losses
of all sorts, germs of diseases. A healthy flore and a good filtrage are not enough.
It would be difficult to describe all the diseases becoming in an aquarium. Nevertheless,
the most shed is the disease of white points: here its symptoms.
WHITE POINTS (Ichthyophthirius)
The parasites causing this disease are visible by the nude eye under
the form of dirty white points of 1 mm of diameter on the skin. The Ichthyophtirius
has a cyclic evolution: it leaves the fish for to reproduce itself, leaving to
him in the skin a cavity that the exposition to a bacterial infection or secondary
fongique. The parasite fall to the bottom of the ferry and surrounds itself of
a go out frost that it make: the cyst. It multiplies itself inside this cyst.
Then the cyst burst and of young parasites leave to the research of a new host.
The stadiums intradermique and enkysté withstand the treatment.
Sign to oversee : the skin and the nageoires are covered
Of tiny white points to net outlines. A very attained fish shake
fébrilement its branchies.
Treatment : when the parasite is located under the skin of the fish and
to the state cyst, it cannot be treated. It is necessary therefore to act very
quickly. To eliminate the l'Ichthyophthirius, dilute in the l'aquarium, before
the cyst does not form itself or after his explosion, the fitting remedy. Withdraw
the plants and active coal of the filter.
Counsel : I counsel you to have always to disposal the fitting remedy for
the disease of white points appears suddenly. She is often consecutive to the
introduction again fishes in the l'aquarium.
The
plant
When it is a question of the maintenance of the aquarium, one
not ready often enough attention to the plants. This is to forget totally that
the beauty of your fishes and of your aquarium really is not put in value that
by a flore perfectly healthy.
Sad and decomposed plants, a damaged foliage (because holed, fade or damage) are
often the result of a modification of the chemical composition water (for example,
a too high pH) or of owed diseases be to carences, or to a excess of nutritious
elements. The plants lose then all reason to be in the aquarium.
A change water and an uniform apport of fertilizers, weekly elimination faded or dead leaves and a sufficient lighting - and this, to the ground - you will allow to preserve a long time a flore in good health.
Apparition of seaweeds and of gastéropodes
in your aquarium
Certain sorts of seaweeds (as the blue seaweeds) are the sign of a bad biological
balance (for example a too important empoissonnement, changes water too rare,
a bad nutrition, a bad lighting, ... ).
From time to time, it can do himself that of the seaweeds and snails appear in
your aquarium. A massive apparition of snails or other invertebrates (For example,
bloodsucker) harms the beauty of your aquarium. She reveals also a bad biological
balance. It arrives also as the installation again plant bring snails. The appropriate
stores sell a wide palette of products that you will allow to resolve the problem
(Limacid is a very effective product ). In cases proliferation of snails, in a
first time, take they of with by hand. You next can introduce in your aquarium
fishes that nourish themselves with snails and to thus treat the problem biologically
: the Botia macracantha and the other Botia
suit perfectly. Of another side, it exists varieties of snails that have a biological
function in the l'aquarium: they nourish themselves seaweeds on the panes and
on the plants, as well as surplus food. Some fishes can liberate in permanence
your aquarium of seaweeds. Quote among them: the Pleco,
l'Ancistrus, the Epalzeo, the Gyrino, the
Mollys (Black Molly and Molly-Lyre), the Labeo
Bicolor. If you install these fishes by small groups, they will be again more
active and will put your aquarium under cover of all undesirable proliferation.
My counsels:
Place a piece copper at the far end of your ferry, it seams that it prevent
the diseases. I did it and it is true that I am quiet since.