What is Snotmouth Disease?

[@LushSaltyAquariums]

Hello from my fish room channel in Chicago, where I am a subscriber to yours. It is most disheartening (and morbidly interesting) that on top of the sick fish all of your effort, time and resources yielded results that are at best inconclusive. It begs so many questions, one of which is "doing nothing" a better approach than all the work and cost it takes to treat? I often just up the water change, feed less and, if necessary, cull. The mysterious ailment goes away as often as not.

[@MattKeepsFish]

@@LushSaltyAquariums Hello from Ontario! Fishkeeping really is unique in how it disregards disease, and I suppose that it’s just because of how cheap a replacement is in comparison to treatment. I guess I’m prompted to keep digging into research because I find it interesting to explore undiscovered avenues, but I also really do get attached to my fish and want them to be healthy if it is at all in my power. An ember tetra is sick? I may try medicating, but their lives are already so short that I often just see if it worsens or not - and sometimes they live for years more! Now if it’s a sick twig catfish, Bolivian ram, or something similar I’m taking it seriously. Such fish are rare, expensive, long-lived or extremely personable and complex in their personalities; losing fish like these would be like losing a dog or a cat for me, and their maintained health is the core reason for my research.

[@hopeballinger5113]

Interesting

[@hopeballinger5113]

It's annoying when fish get sick