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Fighting fish make wonderful pets – they are interactive, interesting and fairly easy to look after once you have established an ideal habitat for them. That said there are a number of things that you as a fighting fish owner need to be on the look out for. Fighting fish can be negatively impacted by their tank environment, by parasites and bad bacteria and through bad genetic strains. To find out what can be causing problems with your fish, and what you can do about it, check out the list of symptoms below and the corresponding information about them.
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If Your Fish Is Looking Sick
What to look for: if your fighting fish dies suddenly, or stops eating, is loosing its color and either spend abnormally long periods of time at the water surface or the bottom of the tank.
What this could mean: There could be 3 possible causes of these symptoms. Firstly the fish might be suffering from poisoning. This can occur when the water in the tank has not been treated for chlorine for example, or if the fish had contracted some form of bacterial or parasitic infection. Secondly the water might contain low oxygen levels which can adversely affect the fish and thirdly the symptoms could be the result of a bacterial disease.What can you do? If you suspect poison then you need to check the water in the tank for chlorine and other harmful chemicals. If you find traces of chlorine you will need to completely change all of the water in the tank, and replace it with aged water that you have previously prepared. Don’t forget to check the container you are storing the water in for contaminants as well.
If you suspect low oxygen levels in the water you may need to install an air pump. Although fighting fish do breathe air from the surface of the tank water, they still need a certain percentage of oxygen in the water as well. When testing oxygen levels do this in the morning when oxygen levels are at their lowest.
Keep a look out for Part Two of this post and we will be discussing what to look for an what you can do about it.
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