Title: (Optional) Explain how to maintain a healthy aquarium.
Course: Small Animal Care I (18102-18) > Section: Caring for and Managing Fish

Explanation should include

- the processes, both routine and intermittent, required to keep the aquarium environment clean and healthy
- the components of a wellness check
- a list of the signs, treatments, and prevention of the most common diseases and ailments of fish.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the most common symptoms of disease in pet fish? Why is it important to act quickly to treat these symptoms?
- Which parasites and bacterial diseases are common to most pet fish? Which are associated with one type of fish? How are these parasites and diseases treated?
- How might the aquarium environment contribute to a fish's good health? To a fish's poor health?
- What are the primary differences between breeding egg-laying and live-bearing fish?
- How can the presence of snails affect the health of an aquarium?