CATFISH COMMON DISEASES SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT

While it may be difficult to avoid fish diseases completely, it is better to try prevent their occurrence rather than to allow them develop and then attempting to cure them once they start to cause problems, problems becomes uncontrollable when it hit the fish so hard. To cure a fish disease is much more difficult and generally calls for the services of a specialist. By the time proper treatment can be organized, the disease may have become more serious. In some cases surviving fish are so weakened that effective treatment becomes difficult. However several simple and effective treatments can be used, either for prevention or early control of disease before it becomes too serious. These methods and preventive measure was analyzed in this book.

Table of content

1. Introduction

2. How to manage your water

3. Most common water parameter’s and correction

4. Why catfish farmers test for oxygen in fresh water

5. Fish categories and there resistances to disease

6. Fish categories during harvesting to grow out farming system

7. Catfish size rages from fries to grow out stage to determine any diseases outbreak

8. Common types of fish pounds for fish farming

9. Disease incidence in catfish farming

10. Different types of fish diseases infection treatment symptoms and cure

11. How can we inspect fish disease by feed in take

12. Infectious diseases cause by a living organism

13. Non infectious diseases

14. Stress is the inability of fish to adapt to change cause of stress

15. Common catfish diseases causing agents

i. Bacteria

ii. fungal

iii. Viral

iv. parasite

16. Common bacteria diseases and treatment

i. Columneris disease

ii. Bacillus infection

iii. Ragged tailfin

iv. Fish ick

v. Tailfin and month rot

vi. Fungus

vii. Clumped tin

viii. Dropsy

ix. Anchor worms

x. Body flukes flat worm

xi. Lice

xii. Gill mites

xiii. Haemorrhagic septicaemia

xiv. Enteric red month disease

xv. crack head disease

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17 Fungal conditions

18 Viral diseases

i. infections pancreatic necrosis

19 Channel catfish virus (CCV)

20 Common treatment for sick fish

21 Parasitic infections

22 Swelling of head, bulging eyes

23 swelling of abdomen, raised scales around swollen area

24 Ragged or decaying fins

25 Use of salt treatment in fish

26 Organic ways in which you can treat your fish

27 How make organic antibiotics, probiotic for fish and other livestock’s

28 Organic treatment preparation using garlic and scent leaf extract

29 simple ways to calculate stocking density in conversion of feet’s to square meter

30 Best way to handle occurrence of disease

31 Symptoms identification and treatment

32 Water parameters in disease control

33 Natural cure to correct water PH

34 important points to consider being successful in catfish business

BONUS

1. Introduction to maggot culturing and production

2. Simple steps to produce odourless maggot with rice bran,pkc etc.

3. Simple step to produce odourless maggot with neem and moringa leaf

4. Simple step to produce maggot from black solider flies (BSF)