Aquarium fishes are inclined to various infectious diseases – are not an exception and guppies, often suffering from plavnikovy decay. This disease is caused by bacillary bacteria and affects all species of small fishes with an identical frequency. As plavnikovy decay is treated?
Reasons and symptoms
Plavnikovy decay is an infectious disease which is brought with themselves by new small fishes which the owner bought and placed in an aquarium. Usually before it they have to pass a special quarantine and processing in preventive bathtubs – only after that they can be let out to other small fishes. Besides, plavnikovy decay can develop because of too cool water in an aquarium or its rare replacement that especially negatively affects whitebaits.The infectious origin of a disease significantly complicates technology of its treatment therefore it is necessary to follow all rules "safety". Symptoms of plavnikovy decay represent turbidity of edge of fins at the first stage of a disease – they gain white or light blue color. Turbidity of eyes is sometimes noted. At late stages of a disease of edge of fins take a "uncombed" form and subsequently disappear. At the started plavnikovy decay the fins can collapse completely, and on sick sites ulcers are formed then the small fish cannot already be saved therefore it is important to notice development of a disease in time and to begin the correct treatment.
Treatment of plavnikovy decayAt aquarian guppies it is possible to apply to treatment of plavnikovy decay levomitsetin, having dissolved 1 its tablet in 20 liters of water. After that it is necessary to replace each three days a third of aquarian water with otstoyanny water and again to add in it medicine. Also plavnikovy decay can be cured by means of salt – for this purpose it is necessary to dissolve a tablespoon of salt in 10 liters of water and for half an hour to place in the separate container with salt solution of sick small fishes. For koridoras and tarakatum the limit dosage of salt has to make no more than 1-2 grams of salt on water liter. Treat plavnikovy decay and by means of the bitsillin 5 which is released in bottles which dosage is calculated for 6 days. The portion of a bitsillion is daily dissolved in 10 liters of water and place the guppy there for half an hour. Well proved "Biseptol-480" whose pounded tablets dissolve in 10 liters of water (in calculation ¼ tablets on this amount of water) and place small fishes there for day within 7 days. Also often at the guppy such medicines as Antipar, "Malachite green", by "Fiosept", Sera baktopur and Tetra GeneralTonic which are used in separate capacity with aeration and without water plants are applied to treatment of plavnikovy decay.