Ornamental fish kept in aquariums are susceptible to numerous diseases. Due to their generally small size and the low cost of replacing diseased or dead...

Swim bladder disease, also called swim bladder disorder or flipover, is a common ailment in aquarium fish. The swim bladder is an internal gas-filled organ...

Like humans and other animals, fish suffer from diseases and parasites. Fish defences against disease are specific and non-specific. Non-specific defences...

Dropsy is a condition in fish caused by the buildup of fluid inside the body cavity or tissues. As a symptom rather than a disease in its own right, it can...

Velvet disease (also called gold-dust, rust and coral disease) is a fish disease caused by dinoflagellate parasites of the genera Amyloodinium in marine...

price than the more ornamental fish that require better conditions. In some cases, species of predatory animals, typically large fish such as catfish, european...

symptom of disease or the actual disease in fish. This is a disease which is most often observed in aquaria and aquaculture, but can also occur in natural...

fish poisoning (CFP), also known as ciguatera, is a foodborne illness caused by eating reef fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. Such individual fish are...

Columnaris (also referred to as cottonmouth) is a symptom of disease in fish which results from an infection caused by the Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped...

disease (AGD) is a potentially fatal disease of some marine fish. It is caused by Neoparamoeba perurans, the most important amoeba in cultured fish....

admiration. Instead, it is an active part of human daily life. For example, an ornamental flower bed may be considered a biotope (though a rather small one) since...

least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians...

scombroid, is a foodborne illness that typically results from eating spoiled fish. Symptoms may include flushed skin, sweating, headache, itchiness, blurred...

distress. In salt water fish, Monogeneans can infect the skin and gills, resulting in irritations to the host. Heavy infections could result in erratic...

bony fishes. Digenea — which comprise the majority of trematodes — are found in certain mollusks and vertebrates. Flukes that cause disease in humans...

freshwater fish. Piscine mycobacteriosis has been known to affect over 200 species of fish and is a major cause of mortality in ornamental and farmed fish. Piscine...

causes whirling disease in farmed salmon and trout and also in wild fish populations. It was first described in rainbow trout in Germany in 1893, but its...

salmon anemia (ISA) is a viral disease of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) caused by Salmon isavirus. It affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, Scotland and...

temperature. Infectious diseases and parasites can also lead to fish kill. Toxicity is a real but far less common cause of fish kill. Fish kills are often the...

populations of fish. They can also become abundant in aquaria, sometimes resulting in the death of ornamental fish. P. Myers; R. Espinosa; C. S. Parr; T. Jones;...

Laboratory in Sweden, near to the river Indalsälv. At the time, it was not thought to cause disease in the host fish. The presence of G. salaris on fish became...

Diseases and parasites in salmon, trout and other salmon-like fishes of the family Salmonidae are also found in other fish species. The life cycle of many...

David W. Bruno, L. H. Susan Lim. Diseases and Disorders of Finfish in Cage Culture. Malaysia: CABI, 2002. Pond Life: Fish Health: Skin Flukes. 2007. Pond...

tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters fish through the gills. The female attaches to the tongue, while the male attaches...

; Starkey, N. (July 2008). Common diseases of wild and cultured fishes in Alaska (PDF). Alaska Department of Fish and Game. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored...

commonly seen in individuals who clean fish tanks, handle ornamental fish and work in wet fields. Aquatic systems with a high density of fish and warm waters...

heterokonts in the order Saprolegniales. Saprolegnia, like most oomycetes, is both a saprotroph and necrotroph. Typically feeding on waste from fish or other...

cycles involving fish and marine mammals. They are infective to humans and cause anisakiasis. People who produce immunoglobulin E in response to this...

Novirhabdovirus. It causes the disease known as infectious hematopoietic necrosis in salmonid fish such as trout and salmon. The disease may be referred to by...

parasitizes marine fish, causing marine white spot disease or marine ich (pronounced ick). It is one of the most common causes of disease in marine aquaria...