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  2. List of aquarium diseases - Wikipedia

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    The goal of quarantine is to prevent problems in the main tank due to sickness. A quarantine tank should be used before to introduce any newly acquired animals in the main tank and to treat fish that are already sick. By doing this, the aquarist can avoid the spread of the disease and make it easier to treat the fish. [1]

  3. Fish diseases and parasites - Wikipedia

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    Parasites of coral reef fish include nematodes, Platyhelminthes (cestodes, digeneans, and monogeneans), leeches, parasitic crustaceans such as isopods and copepods, [52] [53] [54] and various microorganisms such as myxosporidia and microsporidia. Some of these fish parasites have heteroxenous life cycles (i.e. they have several hosts) among ...

  4. Cryptocaryon - Wikipedia

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    Cryptocaryon irritans is a species of ciliates that parasitizes marine fish, causing marine white spot disease or marine ich (pronounced ick). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the most common causes of disease in marine aquaria .

  5. Diseases and parasites in salmon - Wikipedia

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    The fish responds by walling off the parasitic infestation into a number of cysts that contain milky fluid. This fluid is an accumulation of a large number of parasites. Henneguya and other parasites in the myxosporean group have a complex life cycle where the salmon is one of two hosts. The fish releases the spores after spawning.

  6. Bluestreak cleaner wrasse - Wikipedia

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    The visitors are referred to as "clients". Bluestreak cleaner wrasses clean to consume ectoparasites on client fish for food. The bigger fish recognise them as cleaner fish because they have a lateral stripe along the length of their bodies, [13] and by their movement patterns. Cleaner wrasses greet visitors in an effort to secure the food ...

  7. Ichthyophthirius multifiliis - Wikipedia

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    The parasite can infect most freshwater fish species and, in contrast to many other parasites, shows low host specificity. It penetrates gill epithelia, skin and fins of the fish host and resides as a feeding stage (the trophont) inside the epidermis .

  8. Bath treatment (fishkeeping) - Wikipedia

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    A number of medications and water treatments are used in this way. Salt is the most effective bath treatment, and is used to eliminate ciliated protozoan parasites (including ich in small fish); also used to curb the absorption of nitrite, and to reduce the osmotic pressure exerted by fresh-water on any hole in the skin or gill.

  9. Black spot disease (fish) - Wikipedia

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    It can affect both freshwater and marine [1] fish. [2] [3] It appears as tiny black spots on the skin, fins, and flesh of the fish. The life cycle of the parasite typically involves a fish-eating bird, a snail and a fish. [4] The black spot larvae grow to sexual maturity in the infected bird's intestine. The adult worms pass eggs with the bird ...