Freshwater vs Saltwater

[67chevellemalibu2]

I was wondering if freshwater fish are susceptible to the same diseases as marine fish? Do they get the same diseases? Can you medicate the display unlike saltwater?

 

[67chevellemalibu2]

There are some really cool and colorful cichlids.

 

[nereefpat]

I was wondering if freshwater fish are susceptible to the same diseases as marine fish? Do they get the same diseases? Can you medicate the display unlike saltwater?

There may be an exception I'm not aware of, but freshwater diseases can't live in saltwater and vice versa.

Freshwater fish have there own set of diseases. But they are generally easier to manage. Depending on what is in the display, you can sometimes treat a display tank.

I agree there are lots of awesome cichlids.

 

[mort]

I was wondering if freshwater fish are susceptible to the same diseases as marine fish? Do they get the same diseases? Can you medicate the display unlike saltwater?

Depends on your definition of same diseases. Whilst they aren't the same parasite you can get whitespot and velvet, or what is commonly called that, in both water types but they are very different beasts. Many freshwater diseases are killed by adding salt to the water and some marine ones killed by diluting the salinity.

In terms of treating freshwater is generally easier as you can dose more in your tank, if you don't have shrimp or snails but that is no different to if you were running a fish only marine system.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Treating freshwater for disease is generally easier. Freshwater ich can be eradicated just by bring the temp up to 86, some fungal diseases can be stopped by doing large water changes which is easier to do for freshwater. Freshwater holds more O2 which is more forgiving for an overdose.

 

[Jesterrace]

Ich, and some fungal type of diseases are similar in freshwater but they are definitely not the same parasites as neither can live in the other environment for very long. To my knowledge though there are several types of marine diseases that have no freshwater counterpart (ie Velvet, Brooklynella, Uronema). As for the freshwater fish, I agree that the Electric Blue Cichlids and Discus would be high on my list of choices.