Dieases in Fish

I talked in an earlier post a little about fish disease and medicines. I would like to add just a little more on this subject. As I said earlier,fish develop disease primarily due to an inadequate environment. Let me compare human life to fish life. If you lived in an area surrounded by heavy pollution,poor air quality or poor sanitation and drinking water chances are you would develop some type of disease. You would go to your doctor and he would probably diagnose the disease and make recommendations for your health. Chances are if your environment caused the disease you would take steps to solve the problem. With today's medications and there side effects you would think first if an environment change would take care of your health problem. Fish in an aquarium environment are the same. If I look into my tanks and see problems with fish I try to look at their environment and diagnose the problem. Cause of disease in the tank could be from many things. Just keep in mind that the best medicine for fish is to keep your aquarium as close to the natural habitat that the species of fish you have live in. Also keep in mind the food you give your fish determines the overall health of the tank. A poor diet for fish equals poor health.