How can my flowerhorn acquire internal parasite? can someone tell me all the factors that a flowerhorn may acquire internal parasite. thanks so much guys
Internal Parasite
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I believe its colonized in the fish’s gut normally. When fish are stressed and the immunity goes down. The population grow out of control and start to infect the fish.
So triggers like poor water quality, bad choices of tankmates and food can affect the fish.
So triggers like poor water quality, bad choices of tankmates and food can affect the fish.
thanks a lot, one more thing, can algae be a factor of poor water quality? the algae affect my flowehorn?
Poor water quality comes from a lack of water changes, and undersized filtration, but even excessive filtration does not replace the need for water changes.
The bacteria that cause "some" internal problems, are ubiquitous, and become pathogenic when stress lowers the fishes immune system ask Kno4te said.
And although algae is not usually dangerous (depending on species, slime algae(Cyanobacteria can be)), it is sometimes an indication that not large enough, and frequent enough water changes are being done, because algae thrives on nutrients like nitrate.
If your tank is small, under 100 gallons, you need to do more water changes to keep the tank from becoming a fish toilet, the a larger tank, the longer it tanks to become polluted.
I test for nitrate, and if the tank water hits 10ppm, I consider it time to change 40%-50% of the water ( that may be considered excessive by some aquarists, I consider it minimal).
Another indicator of the need for water changes for me, is my tap water has a pH of around 7.8.
If after couple days, pH of the tank drops 7 or 6.9, that means to me its time for the same type water changes as above., because of acidification, brought on by, an excess nutrients.
These numbers may mean more than one water change per week, they may mean a water change every other day, or maybe not.
The bigger the fish gets, the more water changes it needs, often dependent on tank size.
The bacteria that cause "some" internal problems, are ubiquitous, and become pathogenic when stress lowers the fishes immune system ask Kno4te said.
And although algae is not usually dangerous (depending on species, slime algae(Cyanobacteria can be)), it is sometimes an indication that not large enough, and frequent enough water changes are being done, because algae thrives on nutrients like nitrate.
If your tank is small, under 100 gallons, you need to do more water changes to keep the tank from becoming a fish toilet, the a larger tank, the longer it tanks to become polluted.
I test for nitrate, and if the tank water hits 10ppm, I consider it time to change 40%-50% of the water ( that may be considered excessive by some aquarists, I consider it minimal).
Another indicator of the need for water changes for me, is my tap water has a pH of around 7.8.
If after couple days, pH of the tank drops 7 or 6.9, that means to me its time for the same type water changes as above., because of acidification, brought on by, an excess nutrients.
These numbers may mean more than one water change per week, they may mean a water change every other day, or maybe not.
The bigger the fish gets, the more water changes it needs, often dependent on tank size.
Doesn't your buffering capacity (KH) also protect your tank from a PH drop? With a KH of 8 degrees, it would take a lot of acidification to drop my PH from 7.8, and I would see an increase in nitrates (past 20ppm) long before this happens.