If you own an aquarium, keeping your fish happy and healthy is the most important thing. Fish can get many diseases and this can be costly and stressful. Preventing disease is the best cure. There are some things that you can do to stop and prevent diseases.

The most common way for your fish to get sick is by contracting it from another fish. This can be easily prevented, by paying attention to the tank. When you bring home new fish, you can get lots of disease in your tank. Before you purchase a fish make sure it acts normally and does not have any weird bumps or things on their body. After you buy the fish, just make sure you watch them for a while to make sure nothing weird happens.

Diseases can enter a tank if the tank is not cleaned properly. When you clean your tank, wash out the tank well. Try not to use bleach, because if any residue is left it will kill your fish. If you use soap, you need to make sure all of the soap is washed out of the tank.

The plants, gravel and dcor should also be washed. When the fish are healthy move them into the clean tank. Watch that tank for a few days to make sure the disease if fully killed. If any disease re-established, move the fish back into the infected tank until the disease is gone. Move all the healthy fish into the other tank that is healthy. Clean the infected tank out fully.

If you get a disease in a tank, you should always have a backup tank to move the fish into. If some of your fish are already infected, move the healthy fish into the other tank. The sick fish should be treated in the same tank until they are healthy. After the fish are healthy again, move them into the other tank, and clean the infected tank out.

Keeping your tank clean a healthy is key for your fish to survive. If your tank gets a disease, try to clean the tank ASAP. The best weapon to not getting a disease is to not buy infected fish. When you spot a fish acting differently, it may have a disease. Watch your tank if a fish is acting strangely, to spot a disease before it infects others.

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