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SYMPTOMS
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Grey white
film over the whole body surface of fish If untreated,
fins deteriorate shallow ulcers appear on body. Fish
generally appears off colour, sickly and weak with no
interest in food.
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Fish's body bloats
out, as if full of fish eggs and, scales stand away
from body that looks like a pineapple
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Body-rot, fin-rot,
tail-rot, patches of red tissue on body, haemorrhagic
discolouration of vent (anal) area of abdomen; any or
all of the above symptoms if not promptly treated may
quickly deteriorate into the following terminal symptoms:-
bloat..Popeye, abnormally high respiratory rate (i.e.
faster than 90 gill beats/min.)....
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Greyish-white cotton
wool like growths around mouth area.....under chin...
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White skin lesions
(body rot), haemorrhages or red spots, emaciation, ulcerations.
Greyish-white film develops over eye and can lead to
"pop-eye" and be terminal, very fast breathing
ie: 90+ GB/min....
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Small, pure white,
clearly-defined spots (about 1/4 - 1/2 dia..... of pinhead)
appear on body AND finnage. (CAUTION: do not confuse
with same-sized GREYISH-WHITE, blurred-edge spots appearing
on finnage only - see FLUKES below.
If untreated, spots slowly (6-24 hrs..) advance to cover
whole body/finnage area. Fish do not show same early
sickliness as with Fungal Ich and may even continue
feeding lightly...
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Within 6-8 hours of
the fish becoming infected the respiratory rate rises
very steeply from the normal 60-90 GB/min. to as high
as 200-300 GB/min. If not treated quickly at this stage,
tiny greyish-fawn cysts (difficult to spot with naked
eye unless fish can be manoeuvred into a head on position
with light behind it) appear in enormous numbers on
body and finnage. Can never be confused with
"white-spot" disease since - a) the spots
are much smaller, and b) "white-spot" disease
doesn't cause an increase in respiratory rate until
several untreated days have passed and the fish is dying.
Some species occasionally seen to flick and twitch pelvic
/ dorsal fins and even close down the worst-infected
gill chamber if disease progresses untreated....
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Greyish-white, cotton-wool-like
threads growing from the fish's body and particles of
uneaten food, etc., on gravel.....
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Large, (1-5mm) off
white granular growths - often spherical and attached
to any part of body or fins. Very rare in f/w fishes.
Fish shows little signs of distress and often continues
feeding normally. Surface appearance of cyst resembles
small ball of cauliflower or raspberry. No increase
in breathing rate.......
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Rapid loss of body weight
- often despite good appetite, leading to vertigo (loss
of balance) and abnormal swimming pattern, (CAUTION these
symptoms can be confused with same symptoms produced by
physical or pressure damage to swim bladder if present.
Early symptoms later deteriorate to ulceration
and fin damage probably as a result of secondary bacterial
infections on damage sites caused by loss of balance.
Finally if untreated, the spleen, liver kidneys
and brain become infected, "Pop-eye" develops
and in the last few hours, breathing rate increases to
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