Tropical Fish Information – Your Fish Tank Guru

Fish Dieses well besides Ick which seems to be the most popular tropical fish dieses there are plenty of others and are harder to cure and sometimes harder to even see.

1. Clamped Fins – The fish clamps its fins close against the its body. Experienced aquarists use this to quickly spot problems with their fish. If you see that some of your fish have clamped fins and treat your fish immediately, you can usually cure them and avoid more serious stress and disease.

2. Shimmy Looks like the fish is swimming fast but staying in the same place. Shimmy is easy to spot, and if the fish is treated immediately, you can usually cure it and avoid more serious stress and disease.

3. Red Sores Many things can cause sores on fish such as fights with other fish, scraping on sharp rocks, and small wounds that get infected and grow bigger. A new small sore can usually be cured. Older or larger sores are more difficult to treat, but sometimes you can succeed, and treating your fish will make it less likely that other fish will be infected by the fish with the sore.

More advance tropical fish diseases

1. Fin Rot where the edges of the fish’s fins disintegrate and becoming ragged.

2. Pop eye where the fish’s eye bulges out.

3. Cotton mouth where the fish has patches that look like cotton around it’s mouth.
Sometimes accompanied by a Cloudy eye this is actually a fungus that effected the eye similar to cotton mouth. This is really advance and should be treated immediately.

Two great medications for the listed tropical fish dieses are E.M Erythromycin by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc. TC Tetracycline also by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

TC Tetracycline by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Anti-bacterial medication for common tropical fish diseases such as bacterial tail rot, cotton mouth fungus and gill disease. Aquarium filtration will not affect treatment. For use in freshwater aquariums. This medication will not harm the biological filter. Note: This medication will cause a slight discoloration of water which can be removed with activated carbon. More information on this product click here for the pdf

This product is great and should be in every ones tropical fish emergency kit.
E.M Erythromycin by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc.
For broad spectrum treatment and control of bacterial disease, such as body slime, mouth fungus, Furunculosis (open lesions and swelling), bacterial gill disease and hemorrhagic septicemia (blood spots without sign of skin damage). For use in both freshwater and saltwater aquariums. Can be used with any API Ich, fungus or parasite remedy to help prevent secondary bacterial infection. This medication will not color the aquarium water. More information on this product click here for the pdf.

Well this is the first time I had ich in my tank, I am going to test the water and find out if it is the water condition. After doing that I have to actually buy some Ich medication, and the best one I have found was Rid-Ich By Kordon. I already tested the heater and that is OK.

I also discovered a great new way to prevent ich in the future and that would be to actually add non idonize salt mix it in with the water when you change it do not dump it directly in the tank, this would burn freshwater tropical fish. I found this information on nunnie.com

Ich is easy to see in light it is little salt looking dots on your tropical fish.

The Black Moor Goldfish is a telescope-eyed variety of fancy goldfish that has a characteristic pair of protruding eyes. May also referred to as popeye, black telescope. In Japan the Black Moor is called the kuro demekin and dragon-eye in China. The Black Moor is very popular goldfish, and ironically it totally no where near the color of gold.

Black Moor’s would be raised and need similar conditions as any other type of gold fish would need. Goldfish could be in colder water 65 to 70 Degree Fahrenheit then normal tropical fish such as Danio, Tetras or Swordtails which needs above 70 Degrees. I think these fish are really pretty and I might be getting some real soon. Even though Black Moor have big eyes, don’t let that fool you Black Moors like most Goldfish have very poor eye sight. Also Black Moors like other Goldfish will over eat and this could kill them so be very careful about doing so.

Well I think these fish are very pretty and would make a great pet, and if you have Goldfish it will bring out the beauty of your aquarium and make all the pretty Goldfish colors pop.

Black Moor Goldfish (4″-5″Length) Goldfish have been bred to bring out beautiful colors and unusual characteristics. Goldfish are hardy coldwater fish that require no extra heating to survive. The Black Moor is black in overall coloration with metallic scales.

To learn more on how to take care of the Black Moor Goldfish or any other breed of Goldfish I would recommend the Goldfish Secrets By Dane Stanton

Well the tropical fish food I use regularly is Tetra’s TetraMin Tropical Flake in with a brown trim. My Swordtails and Danios seem to like that the best. I just do a pinch of the tropical fish food a day. Once a month I will give them bloodworms or larva.

TetraMin Large Tropical Flakes (5.65 oz.; Large Flakes) The world’s leading fish food for more than 40 years. Each highly nutritious, vitamin enriched flake is firm and highly digestible. Essential nutrients and added vitamin C promote optimum health, energetic fish, and long life.

Besides once a week feeding my Crowntail Betta bloodworms, I would feed him Wardley Premium Betta Food Pellets, I normally just drop in 3 pellets a day, I notice when I did more with past Betta they do not eat them all. Betta’s I found out have smaller stomachs then fish in there size range.

Wardley Premium Betta Food (1.2 oz.) Nutritious ingredients specially blended for bettas. Extraordinary color enhancement is achieved from natural ingredients.Floating mini pellets will not cloud the water.