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Fish
diseases are either systemic or infectious. Systemic diseases
are either iatrogenic (induced by an external condition)
or congenital. Nothing can be done about a congenital condition.
An iatrogenic condition can usually be reversed by removing
the cause. A congenital disease can usually be recognized
as some kind of deformity or behavior that affects only
one fish, while an iatrogenic disease is more likely to
affect many or all fish. |
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| Despite
a long history of the use of copper, the preferred agent for
the eradication of external parasites from marine fish, many
discrordant recommendations of expert aquarists betray a limited
understanding of the basic chemistry of coppe rin the marine
aquarium |
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| A
common complaint of many substrates is that they tend to cloud
up water when first setting up a tank. This clouding can mitigated
by filling the tank slowly or adding water over a dish so
it does not stir the gravel., If it is important that clouding
be completely illiminted, you might want to try one of these
methods... |
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