How many fish deseases are there...

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Or are very rare ones?

Recently i have seen some deseases in the emergency or other sections of the forum that have realy got me stumped...A black finrot like desease that eats away at the fish's fins and body for example...There also appears to be an oto desease that makes their stomachs red/pink and inflamed before killing them...
Also over the year my lfs has had some very odd deseases, there was a super infectious one that killed off 30 common/sailfin plecs in a day and turned their stomachs green before it killed them...There was also a betta one that covered the fish's skin in a yellow slimey substance- it reminded me of a slime coat reaction gone very bad, but i have always associated it with turning the slime coat white or grey.
They also had a goldfish once that have a grey desease that was literally eating it away and have eaten half the fish's side off and had also turned much of the remainding fish's skin to make it look like it was skin draped over the skeleton .

Have you ever come across any fish deseases that simply could not be explained or indentified...?
Do any of you know of any very rare deseases that affect aquarium fish? The only rare one i know of is "Enteric red mouth"...
I want to educate myself and others on this issue and hopefully incourage some debate of what we do and don't know...

 

[WILDER]

Never had any strange deseases myself but there is also whirling desease out there, alot of fish are now being brought in from the wild, so i can see alot more strange desease popping up in the near future, best bet is for fishkeepers to buy quarantine tanks as lately i don't seem to be able to buy a fish free of desease.

 

[OohFeeshy]

The thing is though, it can be very hard to tell what causes what disease. For instance, every time your fish is, say, covered in white spots, and you add ich meds and it doesn't work, in all possibility its something completely different causing it. It is impossible to name and describe all diseases when scientists can discover several hundred types of unnamed bacteria in a single teaspoon of soil.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Some deseases though which used to be considered very rare are now becoming more and more common...On the other hand other deseases which used to be very widespread are becoming less and less seen in the fish trade; for example fish TB used to be practically unheared of but now i hear of it more and more every week, Fish Fungus on the other hand used to very common but now the most common fungal esease is Columnaris....
There also seems to be alot of unexplained spinal bending/warping desease popping up all the time which share alot of symtoms with fish TB but are not...It is difficult to advise somone wether to euthanise a fish which such sysmtoms at times as there is so little known about them...
I myself have a platy, who for the last 4months has been living with a desease that has slowly caused her spine to bend- she is in good health apart from that and no other fish have had the desease and i am unsure of wether to put her down since she is very healthy and active otherwise and no other fish have had what she has and the bending of the spine has not progressed at all in the last 2months...Odd huh?

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Tokis. I have seen several fish in my store from time to time that had the spine bending diseas. As you said, no tankmates were ever infected, and the fish all seemed to be in good health. However, I think this disease does weaken the fish and make it more succeptable to stress because, having a bent spine, no one ever bought the fish. Then after a few months the fish with the spine disease would die with no warning. Most of the cases I have seen were danios. Another disease that I have seen almost exclusivley in danios is one where the mouth is held open, unable to close. Like the spine disease, it was not passed on to other fish and the infected fish are healthy in all other obnservable aspects. I have never seen one of these fish die from the disease.

 

[WILDER]

I bought some harlequins and the next day there mouth were stuck open sadly they died, but they didn't pass anything onto the other fish, and some of the harlequins made it that didn't have stuck open mouths, it awful to see them in that condition.

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

^One of my harlequins had that! I thought it was an injury that had caused it. He didn't seem to grow and he actually reached the point where he could close his mouth again. Sadly he was weakened by the problem and died soon after.
hugs,
P.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Anyone else seen or had any weird fish deseases ?

 

[Synirr]

Um... tumors and cancer aren't rare or unknown, but it's one of those things people don't usually consider when their fish has a bloated stomach or something like that.
Pandora's Aquarium is a great site for examples of many fish diseases.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Um... tumors and cancer aren't rare or unknown, but it's one of those things people don't usually consider when their fish has a bloated stomach or something like that.
Pandora's Aquarium is a great site for examples of many fish diseases.

Who said anything about cancer/tumors? where does it say bloating is associated with cancer/tumors on pandoras aquarium ?