DISEASES: Prevention & Cure

from – Saltwater Fishkeeping: A Guide for Young Adults and Teens

Prevention of disease is always better and easier than curing disease. The adage of ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ is particularly relevant to keeping saltwater fishes. Especially with marine fishes, sooner or later a disease or parasitic infection will happen. The two most commonly seen and prevalent diseases of saltwater fishes are in the very broad categories – parasitic infections and bacterial infections.

See Saltwater Fishkeeping: A Guide for Young Adults and Teens for more information.
Some common treatment medications

(Scroll over a bold italic item, and click for a product link. The links provided below are examples typically sized for a starter 29 gallon aquarium.)

PraziPro: Used to treat parasite and fluke infestations.

Cupramine: Used to treat either Marine Ich or Marine Velvet parasitic infections

Maracyn: Used to treat many different bacterial infections.

Acriflavin: Used to treat protozoan infestations, ciliate parasite infestations, bacterial infections and external fungal diseases.

Beta Glucan: Used to boost the immune system (a flaked food).

Ich-X: Used to treat either Marine Ich or Marine Velvet.

Paraguard: Used to treat parasite infestation, and to treat fungus and infections.

Praziquantel: Used for de-worming.

Stress Guard: Used to repair or replace the mucous coating.

UV Sterilizer: for quarantine tanks up to 15 gallons: Used to remove ‘free floating’ – parasites, fungi, viruses, algae, bacterial, and other pathogens.