Use fish probiotics to prevent fish diseases and for optimum fish health.

With fish probiotics, prevent fish diseases by improving the quality of the water and increasing efficiency in the fish’s digestive tracts, so that they will be able to properly digest food.

If you have tropical fish, you want your pet fish to be healthy and disease free. If you have a pond in which you eat the fish out of, surely you do not want to eat sickly diseased fish.

So, let’s take a look at some common fish diseases and see if we can find this common thread in how to prevent fish diseases.

FISH DISEASES:

Gill Disease

Symptoms: The fish’s gills become swollen and discolored. Though the fish are not moving, the fins rapidly flap. The fish is unable to get sufficient oxygen, so the fish surface and gasp for air or either lie at the bottom of the water body motionless.

Causes: Bacteria, fungi and parasites in the water.

Columnaris

Symptoms: Early signs are grayish white patches and marks around the mouth and on the body. Signs of deterioration of the fins. Advanced stages, the fish hold the fins very close to the body and do not spread them. If untreated the disease can spread into the internal organs.

Causes: Bacteria and poor water quality. Can occur from the shock of being introduced to a new environment.

Mouth Fungus

Symptoms: Deterioration around mouth. Whitish gray spots.

Causes: Bacteria and poor water quality

Dropsy

Symptoms: Swollen or hollow abdomen. Diseased fish are often mistaken for being pregnaut. Loss of appitite and inactive. If untreated, fatal kidney damage can result.

Causes: Viruses and bacteria. Poor water quality. Contaminated food.

Fin Rot

Symptoms: Darkening of the fins, often blood streaked. Erosion of the fins.

Causes: Bacteria

Fungal Infections

Symptoms: Whitish cottony growth on fish body.

Causes: Undaunted fungi in the water.

Eye Conditions

Pop Eye

Symptoms: Enlarged eyes which appear as if they are about to pop out of the fish’s head

Causes: Bacteria and excessive dissolved oxygen in the water.

Cloudy Eye

Symptoms: Eyes become cloudy looking to white. Possible loss of vision.

Causes: Poor water quality., severe stress, old age and malnutrition

Other Diseases Caused by Poor Water Quality

Nitrate poisoning due to excessive nitrates caused by excessive organic wastes, and with ponds, nitrogen enriched storm runoffs from surrounding fertilized land and plants.

Ammonia poisoning form excessive organic waste, causing toxic high pH level of the water.

Prevent Fish Diseases Naturally

Prevention and Treatment:

Improve the water quality immediately.

Aquarium: use little or no chlorine. Change the water frequently.

Ornamental ponds: Drain water if possible. Reduce or eliminate chlorine

All water bodies, including aquariums and ornamental ponds: Use beneficial bacteria to keep the water free of solid waste build up and harmful bacteria, fungi and parasites.

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We will soon be offering a completely natural, environmentally friendly, corn starch based polymer that will absorb 200 to 250 times its weight in water, which is optimum for most soils.

However, there are several parts of the globe that have high saline soils. For areas where the agricultural areas have been or are being covered with salt water at times, there are also plans to develop a more absorbent product. Salt dissolves the polymer and reduces  the products absorption rate. Testing indicates that our organic polymer will only absorb 28% of the absorption rate that can be achieved with distilled water. An organic polymer that will absorb 250 times its weight in water will only absorb 70 times its weight in salt water. Therefore, for highly saline soils, a higher absorbency rate is vital.

We have the potential to produce such an organic  polymer that will absorb 400 times its weight in water and even more. I personally produced a corn starch based polymer that would absorb 380 times its weight in water. This was done with an inferior water supply. Had the water supply had been up to standard, the absorption rate would have been higher. It is safe to say, that with the proper water supply, an absorption rate of 450 to 500 , or more, is possible.

But for now, we will soon be offering an organic polymer that will retain 200-250 times its weight in water. The higher absorption rates will follow an interest and demand for better water retaining qualities.

For outstanding results in water care, microbes are our main source of control which are living animals that multiply rapidly when adequate food is available. Our treatments will last up to a year under the right conditions. Many waste water ponds will last 6 months between treatments. And on top of it all. our products are competitively priced to maximize your savings.

Is your lawn plagued with insects? Do you use insecticides over and over again and they just keep coming back? Are you are killing most of the adults, only for more to hatch and grow? The natural way to eliminate insect larvae is starvation.

Natural  insect control: Natural microbes can help you reduce the insect population of your yard by starving the larvae, but will not affect adult insects. The microbes contained in AQ-3 will reduce the nitrate levels in the soil, killing the nematodes that feed off of the nitrates. Nematodes are a major food source for insect larvae, so when the nematodes die off, the insect larvae starve. The insect population is reduced, all but  eliminated.

If you have an area that is covered with decomposing grass clippings,plants and leaves, it must be raked as thoroughly as possible before treatment. Since, decomposing matter produces nitrates which feed the nematodes,  which feed the insect larvae, you need to remove as much decomposing plant life as possible. Otherwise, you will have to use more microbes and the insect control process will take considerably longer.

Insect Control Technique

In the fall of the year, apply AQ-3 as a soil spray at the application rate of 1 pound per acre. In the spring, apply  GPN-2 soil spray to populate the soil with the beneficial microbes needed for a beautiful lawn. GPN-2 is a soil spray that contains a balance of microbes and minerals which is vital a lush,  insect and disease free lawn. The application rate for the GPN-2 Soil Spray is also 1 pound per acre. Thus you have natural organic insect control.

One of the most disheartening things in the world for a pond owner and its users is to see the pond’s water overcome with blue green algae and various species of algae and species of moss. Surprisingly, most pond owners don’t understand the causes of the pond algae problem, therefore the remedy to the pond algae control problem eludes them. It is quite simple really and so is the treatment.

For starters, the algae forms in the shallow areas, so for algae control,increasing the depth of the water is an option. Dying the water is much cheaper and works pretty well in preventing the sunlight to reach the bottom of the shallow areas. Once the sunlight is filtered out, the algae and moss will begin to die. As this dead matter decomposes, the nitrate level in the water increases. Algae feeds off of nitrates, so it is a never ending circle. Another source of nitrates in the pond water is storm and rain run off from fertilized ground. The nitrate enriched water drains into the pond and increases the algae level.

Natural Algae Control

For algae control, if you can lower the nitrate level, the algae and moss will continue to die off. That is where the AQ-3 formula comes in. The application rule for algae control is one pound per acre foot. You simply multiply the acreage of the pond by the average depth of the pond to determine how much AQ-3 to apply. A one acre pond that has an average depth of 5 foot would require 5 pounds of AQ-3 to treat it. Dying of the water is often a necessity. To keep the nitrate level down and accelerate the treatment, it also helps to rake out as much of the decomposing vegetation as possible.

Another point to mention is that as the algae dies, it will come to the surface, it gives the temporary appearance of getting worse before it gets better. This is especially true when the water is dyed, the algae at the bottom will die and surface. Give it a few days, natural algae control will prevail.