Fin fungus - treatment in a common aquarium

Alas, small marine or river inhabitants are prone to diseases that can not only ruin their species, but also completely destroy the population of the artificial reservoir. The list of infectious diseases of fish fin fungus occupies a special place. She is a frequent visitor to home aquariums and even beginners, you need to know how to cope with this most dangerous problem.

What is fin rot in fish?

Symptoms of the disease can be distinguished visually without the involvement of a specialist:

  1. The edges of the fins begin to color in black or brown shades.
  2. On the fins, closer to the edges, incomprehensible milky-white zones are formed.
  3. The disease destroys the fin, and it takes a shabby and uneven appearance.
  4. At the base of the fin on the body of fish begins an inflammatory process that causes redness.
  5. In the later stage of the disease, the fins can almost completely collapse, only the rays remain visible.
  6. If treatment of fin rot in a general aquarium is not carried out, the disease will affect the trunk of the fish.

What causes fin rot?

Most often it occurs in aquariums with dirty water, contaminated with impurities of ammonia and chlorine, when there is an excess of organic matter in it and the liquid is rarely replaced. This disease leads to sharp temperature fluctuations, especially when the liquid is very cold. Degeneration of the fin develops during fish tuberculosis and lymphocytosis. Most often affected by rot are weak creatures that have undergone various infections. In addition, such problems cause improper feeding, for example, there is an excess of food in the aquarium.

How to treat fin rot?

First of all, you should clean the tank and change the water , you should treat the walls of the aquarium with special bactericides (Melafix, Myxazin and others). Soil and devices can be disinfected with boiling, and seaweed with a solution of the drug bicillin-5. For treatment in a common aquarium of a disease such as fin rot, biomycin, a white streptocide, is used.

A good combination of copper sulphate with a solution of malachite green (5 drops of each drug per 10 liters of liquid). First, the preparations are dissolved in a separate small container, and then they are gradually poured into the reservoir. Explore your fish regularly, so as not to miss the re-development of the disease, the treatment of fin rot in your general aquarium will be more successful if it starts on time.