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7 Killer Diseases That Can End Your Catfish Farm

7 Killer Diseases That Can End Your Catfish Farm

1. CRACK HEAD DISEASE: This is the most common catfish disease in ponds. The cause of this disease is not yet understood unlike earthen ponds and natural water bodies, although adverse water quality due to over feeding is believed to be the main factor and also unbalanced nutrients in the diet of the food.
A fish affected by this disease shows the following symptoms;
Distended abdomen due to septicemia and hemorrhage.
Occasional exopthalmus (pop eye).
This disease can detected at early stages, affected fish show reddish lateral line on the skull between the two air chambers, as soon as this symptoms is observed in some fish during sampling, feeding should be substantially reduced and pond water should be replace.
Generally, the fish recovers after few weeks after which feeding can be increased little by little.
N/B: At the final stage of the disease the skull will break laterally followed by death

2. WATER QUALITY DISEASE: Oxygen deficiency is a major ….

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