for the white hair on the fish body? The white hair on the fish body is due to Saprolegniasis. This is a common disease, and sick fish are usually injured, causing mold to invade the wound and grow white mycelium from it, which looks like white hair. This disease has a certain degree of treatment difficulty, there is no specific medicine, usually based on prevention, to avoid fish injury is the first step, followed by attention to temperature, low temperature season is the high incidence of the disease.
1, isolation stop food: fish long white hair, first of all to isolate it, the purpose of isolation is two, one is to prevent sick fish to spread the disease to healthy fish, the other is to facilitate treatment after isolation. After isolation, it is necessary to stop feeding, because the appetite of fish decreases after illness, and it is easy to deteriorate the water quality by continuing feeding.
2. Change water and heat up: In order to prevent the disease from getting worse, it is necessary to change water and heat up in time. Changing water can improve the water environment, reduce the content of harmful substances in the water, and warming can promote metabolism, so that fish can recover as soon as possible. However, this is only effective in the early stage of the disease, and medication is needed in the later stage.
3. Medication: There is no specific medicine for Saprolegniasis, because there are many kinds of bacteria that cause fish to get sick, but many bactericidal drugs have therapeutic effects, such as povidone iodine, potassium permanganate, etc., which can also be treated with oral antibiotics.
