| Comments: | Outward signs are: heavy breathing, rubbing on objects, skin cloudiness from excess mucus production, and severe lethargy. Once a fish who is infected isolates itself near the surface of the water or filter out take it is usually too late for treatment.Mortality is about 50% in untreated specimens, and the lifecycle is direct, temperature dependant, and in most tropical tanks of anything from 70-82f this disease will require multiple treatments, usually repeated every 7 days. Two treatment courses seperated by at least a week are usually necessary. Uv steralisation usually controls this protozoan ok without the need for medication, as with other protozoa, it is the amount of parasites that kill rather than purely the presence of them.
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