Have you seen that your fish is inactive for a while? Well, if the fish stays at the bottom of the tank and is not happily swimming, you should observe the behavior carefully. It may be the beginning of cotton mouth disease.
This disease is a kind of whitish bacteria, formed on the face of fish, especially on the lips and cheeks. Your lips will look swollen and rot. You may notice additional strips at the end of the lips that move around the mouth of the fish each time the fish breathes.
There are other symptoms. Fish lose their appetite. So even if you provide food, they do not aspire to catch it. There are reasons for this. Because of this illness they can not easily open their mouth. They move very slowly, as the white liquid frequently comes out of the mouth of the fish, the water is also cloudy.
If it can not respond promptly, water will be contaminated immediately and other fish schools will be infected. Later, in a very short time, the fish will die one after another.
There is no cure for this disease. There is only one solution.
You must be very fast and cruel. If you see a single fish infected with this disease, you should immediately remove it from the aquarium and dispose of it. Many people like to be inactive for a while and they simply speak to the owner of the pet owner about the behavior of the fish. If you do not take this powerful action, other fish will infect soon.
If you feel that the disease is not spreading, you can do one more thing. Take some water and add a lot of salt to it. Then take a piece of soft cloth and soak in that water. You need to swipe the mouth of the fish with this cloth. Afterwards, this fish has to be kept in a separate tank. At the same time add a solution containing Terramycin to the aquarium water. You can quickly notice the difference in behavior of other fish population.
It can also be treated using a methylene blue solution. It is equally effective. However, the main solution is to isolate the infected fish as soon as possible and handle the aquarium water.
