Taking Care of Goldfish Diseases

Diseases are common for almost every creature on this planet. Goldfish are very vulnerable to diseases and can become sick in a matter of hours. Learning how to prevent goldfish diseases is a lot easier than curing them. Usually people learn how to cure a disease before preventing it.

The most common diseases are: anchor worm, costia, cotton mouth, cotton wool, dropsy, finrot, flukes, hole in the head, ich, lice, swim bladder disorder, trichodina and velvet. Some of these diseases are easier to cure than others. For example, the swim bladder disorder is one of the very common goldfish diseases. This disease manifests itself as the goldfish will start to swim upside down, gulp at the surface or not swim at all. The swim bladder disorder can be caused by overfeeding. To cure this disease you need to starve your goldfish for a few days or give him a diet of peas for 2-3 days.

There are three ways to prevent goldfish diseases:

-having a high quality water
-feeding your goldfish fresh and healthy
-taking care of what you add to your aquarium

Water quality is probably the most common cause of goldfish diseases. It is very easy to have low quality water than having a high quality water. Doing water changes can prevent the water from getting polluted and your goldfish will have a healthy environment to live in. Do a 20-30% weekly water change to keep things under control.

Feeding your goldfish is very important. You must know what to feed it and how to feed it. It is best to feed your goldfish fresh vegetables and fruit. Your goldfish also loves brine shrimp and blood worms. With a healthy diet like this combined with feeding your goldfish once a day what it can eat in 2 minutes, you will have a healthy goldfish.

You must be careful what you add to your aquarium. Adding a new fish or a new plant to your aquarium, you can bring a diseases into it. This will harm your goldfish and will be hard to get rid of. Remember to always quarantine your everything before you add it to your aquarium.

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