Fish health management is a term used in aquaculture to describe management practices which are designed to prevent fish disease. Once fish get sick it can be difficult to salvage them.

Disease prevention, rather than treatment, is the key to effective fish health management. Fish disease can be avoided with proper water quality control, nutrition, and sanitation. It is difficult to avoid opportunistic disease outbreaks without this base. Potential pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and parasites are continually bathing the fish. Even the use of sterilisation technologies (such as ultraviolet sterilisers and ozonation) does not guarantee that all possible pathogens are removed from the setting. These potential pathogens can cause disease due to poor water quality, poor nutrition, or immune system suppression caused by stressful circumstances. Medications used to treat these diseases provide a means of buying time for fish and enabling them to overcome opportunistic infections, but are no substitute for proper animal husbandry.

Regular monitoring of fish behaviour and feeding activity allows for early identification of problems, allowing for a diagnosis before the majority of the population becomes ill. If treatment is required, it will be most beneficial if it is begun early in the disease's development while the fish are still healthy.

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