Head hole disease is a common disease of ornamental fish, mostly seen in colorful, Luohan, parrot and other beautiful fish, fish head has holes, mucus secretion increases, appetite loss, body color darkening, weight loss, serious endanger the life of fish.
Medical dissection found that there were a large number of parasites at the lesion: the six-haired whipworm, a parasite that perennially parasitizes the intestines of fish, which is what causes the head hole disease of fish.
How to deal with this little bug, let the fish stay away from the harm of head hole disease, today with you to discuss, I hope to bring help to aquarists.
1. Early detection and early treatment.
If you like your love fish, you will often watch it, pay close attention to its state and body surface changes when watching, once you find that there is a poor state, or the head is abnormal, you need to focus on taking care of it in a separate tank.
The initial stage of the head hole is only slightly inverted, and there is no pustule, at this time, you can use a large white tablet or a medicinal bath of enemy insects to heat up appropriately, and if there is no accident, it will soon be cured.
2. Treatment method when symptoms are severe.
If a head hole has appeared, indicating that the symptoms have worsened and treatment needs to be intensified, the local application method and the overall medicinal bath method should be used.
Many aquaclists are afraid to move the fish out of the water for artificial treatment of fish diseases, so they must first learn to anesthetize the fish and let the fish receive treatment in a quiet state.
There are two common ornamental fish medical anesthetics, namely tricaine and benzocaine, which are generally called fish stability and fish tranquility in fish shops.
Pour an appropriate amount of anesthetic into the medical tank, depending on the size and weight of the fish, generally 25-100ml/L, after a few minutes the fish only enters a quiet state, and is wrapped in a wet towel after fishing.
Use a cotton swab to dip the drug, generally with bactericidal and anti-inflammatory drugs, such as erythromycin ointment, furacillin, metronidazole powder, etc., in advance in another small tank poured into the old water, dissolved in yellow powder or other bactericidal drugs, the fish smeared with the drug are only put in.
3. How to prevent it.
Six-haired whipworms perennially parasitize the intestines of fish, and complete elimination is almost impossible, so we have to find other ways.
The first is to maintain good water quality, replace the new water regularly, and clean the filter media regularly, especially the filter sponge, which is too dirty to be replaced. The second is to ensure the comprehensive nutrition of the fish, and the lack of calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D is one of the causes of head hole disease. Feed should be changed frequently, frozen live bait should be appropriately replenished, and healthy fish are only naturally immune to parasitic diseases.
Controlling the number of fish, raising too many fish will only cause a burden on the filtration system of the aquarium, it is difficult to ensure water quality, and the density is too large to make the fish only have a sense of urgency and are prone to disease.
Many aquarists like polyculture, different fish only mixed together can easily lead to fights, and fish with trauma are only easily invaded by parasites or other germs.
When the amount of water is too large, it is easy to cause a rapid drop in temperature, which can easily lead to the body temperature regulation disorder of fish, and germs and parasites will take advantage of the void and cause fish diseases. Therefore, it is better to change the water in a small amount of times, trap the water in advance, and move it indoors, so that it is consistent with the temperature of the fish tank feed water before pouring it in.
If your fish frequently develop various fish diseases, which eventually cause the fish to die, it may be that your fish tank is actively adjusting the number of your feedings. A fish tank is a small ecology, and survival of the fittest still works here.