Diagnosis
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Select the symptoms most closely resembling the ones exhibited by the fish and click on the link. This will take you to another page with more information about the possible cause, and in most cases suitable remedies.

• Small white dots covering the fishes body and fins.
• Cottonwool like growths, restricted to the mouth area.
• Cottonwool like growths, but not restricted to the mouth area.
• Deep open sores on the fishes body or head.
• The Eye is protruding and is very swollen.
• Bleeding from gills.
• Erratic swimming and spiraling.
• White stringy faeces.
• Several fish in the same aquarium are wasting away.
• Small Tetras and similar fish - Become emaciated, and patches of colour fade away.
• Irregular shaped whitish lumps mainly on the fins, but also on the body.
• Swollen body and protuding scales.
• Heater Burns.
• Loss of appetite, distended body.
• Darkend colours, gasping and lethergy.

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