Aquarium Fish Wasting Disease. Eventually those five fish pass away and then a couple of months later you notice five more fish are getting thinner and are also starting to die one by one. Also called wasting disease tuberculosis is more common in marine species than in freshwater tropical fish.
Types of Fish Disease Fish ailments can be separated into 4 general types including bacterial infections fungal infections parasitic or protozoan infections and physical ailments and wounds. Wasting away can be flukes internal parasites to fish tb. You buy 20 fish and a month later five of them look very skinny while the rest are acting fine.
Most often the disease affects zoototyh fish although it also occurs in tropical fish.
This disease is usually chronic slowly progressive and causes low to moderate mortalities. You buy 20 fish and a month later five of them look very skinny while the rest are acting fine. Wasting away can be flukes internal parasites to fish tb. Wasting disease is also known as Fish TB.
