Summary of Salt Treatments for Fish. Salt is often recommended as a โnaturalโ medicine for fish. There are many levels of salt ย that can be used with fish.
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12.9. Avoiding Diseases in Fish
The best preventative for fish diseases is to have water that is heavily biofiltered, bacteria-free and crystal clear.
12.8. Euthanizing a Fish
Euthanizing a Fish: What is the most humane way to euthanize aquarium fish? This article provides the 5 most humane ways.
12.7. Making Medicated Fish Food for the Aquarium
To treat internal diseases of tropical fish it is necessary to make special food. This article explains how to do it right: Making Medicated Fish Food yourself!
12.6. Sterilization of Aquariums
When an aquarium has had a virulent organism such as the bacteria columnaris wipe out most of the aquarium many people try to sterilize the aquarium and its contents. Intuitively this sounds like a good idea. But this โsterilizationโ simply doesnโt work for several reasons.
New Species: Serrasalmus magallanesi
Serrasalmus magallanesi, a new species of piranha from the upper Madeira River basin in Bolivia is described. The authors note this new species has often been confused with Serrasalmus hollandi in literature previously. A key to Serrasalmus spp. from Bolivia is provided.
New species: Phoxinus adagumicus – Taxonomic revision of Phoxinus minnows
In this study researchers present a taxonomic revision of Phoxinus minnows (Leuciscidae) from the Caucasus and describe a new narrow-ranged endemic species Phoxinus adagumicus from the Adagum River basin, Russia.
New Species: Bashimyzon cheni
Researchers present Bashimyzon cheni, a new genus and species of sucker loach (Gastromyzontidae) from the You-Jiang of the Pearl River basin in Guangxi Province, South China. ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ is established as the type species for the new genus – ๐ต๐๐ โ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ .
12.4. Ineffective Medicines for Fish Diseases
Ineffective Medicines for Fish Diseases: All the medicines mentioned in this article can be obtained in large quantities for reasonable prices. Yet none of them are used in commercial aquaculture of fish to treat any diseases!
Type localities Apistogramma
Have you always wanted to know where Apistogramma species occur? The map below shows the type localities of the different Apistogramma species. To see the legend with species, click on the arrow below to the left of the Title: Type localities of Apistogramma. A big thank you to Roland Kipper for providing the map!
