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Fish disease library

Every disease, parasite, and infection in our knowledge base. Tap the keywords to narrow the list — the page updates with a clean, shareable URL.

Fish type
Brackish Water 2 Freshwater Tropical 46 Goldfish 29 Koi 4 Koi & Pond 24 Marine / Saltwater 13
Symptom
Bloated Abdomen 2 Bloated belly 2 Clamped Fins 3 Cloudy Eye 1 Color Fading 1 Cotton Like Growth 1 Cottony Tufts 2 Darkened color 4 Dropsy 1 Emaciation 4 Erratic Swimming 7 Excess Mucus 3 Eye Discharge 1 Fin Erosion 1 Fin Rot 3 Fin Whitening 1 Flashing 4 Flashing / rubbing 8 Floating 1 Frayed Fins 6 Gasping at surface 4 Gill Damage 1 Gold Dust Coating 1 Gold-dust film 1 Granulomas / nodules 3 Head Pitting 1 Hemorrhage 1 Hemorrhaging 13 Lateral Line Erosion 1 Lethargy 19 Listless near bottom 1 Loss Of Appetite 7 Loss Of Balance 1 Mouth Erosion 1 Open Sores 4 Pale Gills 4 Pinecone Scales 1 Pop Eye 17 Rapid breathing 4 Rapid Gilling 4 Red Fin Bases 1 Red Ulcers 2 Scale Loss 1 Scratching 3 Sinking 1 Skin Erosion 1 Skin lesions 4 Spinal Deformity 2 Sudden death 3 Sunken Eyes 1 Swimming Sideways 1 Tissue necrosis 8 Ulcers 1 Visible parasite 1 Wart-like growths 2 White Fin Edges 1 White Grey Patches 1 White Patches 1 White Patches Gills 1 White Spots 5 White Stringy Feces 1 White Tail 1
Cause
Aeromonas hydrophila 1 Aphanomyces spp. 1 Argulus spp. 1 Bacteria 16 Branchiomyces spp. 1 Columnaris 1 Dactylogyrus spp. 1 Environmental 2 Fungus 3 Ichthyophthirius multifiliis 1 Lernaea spp. 1 microsporidian 1 Parasite 18 Pleistophora hyphessobryconis 1 Pseudoloma neurophilia 1 Pseudomonas fluorescens 1 Saprolegnia spp. 1 Trichodina spp. 1 Virus 14
Severity
Critical 20 Mild 2 Mild To To To Severe 1 Moderate 22 Moderate To To To Severe 2 Severe 9

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Goldfish

Bacterial Diseases in Koi & Goldfish

Bacterial diseases are among the most common and serious health challenges facing koi and goldfish keepers worldwide. Caused…

Moderate To To To Severe

Freshwater Tropical

Aeromonas (Ulcer Disease)

Bacterial infection causing open ulcers, hemorrhagic patches, and red sores. The #1 cause of mortality in koi ponds…

Critical

Freshwater Tropical

Mycobacteriosis (Fish Tuberculosis)

A slow, chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium spp. Symptoms include emaciation, spinal deformity, and granulomas. Zoonotic risk —…

Critical

Freshwater Tropical

Dropsy

Bloated body with pinecone-stuck-out scales — a symptom of organ failure, not a disease itself. Prognosis is generally…

Critical

Freshwater Tropical

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN)

Virus disease of aquarium fish. Key signs: fry: dark color, exophthalmia, abdominal distension, spiral swimming, white mucoid faecal…

Critical

Freshwater Tropical

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS)

Virus disease of aquarium fish. Key signs: acute: exophthalmia, anaemic gills, hemorrhages on skin and at fin bases,…

Critical

Freshwater Tropical

Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) Disease

Virus disease of aquarium fish. Key signs: skin congestion, scale erosion, exophthalmia, abdominal swelling, ocular alterations, behavioural changes;…

Critical

Goldfish

Spring Viremia of Carp (SVC)

Virus disease of aquarium fish. Key signs: lethargy, darkening, exophthalmia, distended abdomen (dropsy), petechial hemorrhages in skin and…

Critical