Talk:Disease in ornamental fish

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Is this Page mis-named?

A disease is a condition of the body which causes discomfort or dysfunction. A disease can be caused by a body organ becoming faulty due to age, diet, faulty DNA or infection due to bacteria or viruses.

A animal can have a virus and so the animals is diseased. But if another animal is feeding of it then it is parasited. You may call the animal ill but not diseased surely?

Comments?

--Quatermass 21:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

In a few places in this article it describes "cotton mouth" which is hyperlinked to the wiki article on Xerostomia (dry mouth in humans). It's kinda funny actually: a fish with a dry mouth --now that is a fish with a problem! Anyway, how to fix?-- I would like to see information on diagnosing and treating fish with true cotton mouth as I have a fish that seems to have this problem. 24.9.107.6 02:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the recent changes
On 16 May 2007 this article was renamed from Fish diseases to Disease in ornamental fishes. Then, the fish diseases and fish disease were replaced by redirects to the fish article. In addition, the "main article" link from fish to this one was removed. As a result, this article became almost a dead page that nobody would get to see. And "Disease in ornamental fishes" is most likely not a search term either. So, these changes practically have put this article out of existence. This is about the same effect as deleting the article. I found this change a bit weird and not logical. Why go all the trouble to make this confusing change instead of cleaning up the existing article? And that was quite a big change without any discussion. Or was there a discussion somewhere that I missed? This article definitely needs some cleanups and a bit of reorganizing but that all it takes to make this a "fish disease" article. --Melanochromis 00:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Page updates - Finding this page and Diagnostic list
it was really difficult to find this page, I had to go neon tetra>list of freshwater fish>category:fishkeeping>ctrl + f: "disease">this page

It should not be that difficult, if I didn't know how wikis work, I would have never found it. In addition, this page, or similar page should REALLY have a basic diagnostic list for common diseases in freshwater aquariums. It would be incredibly helpful and I can't, for the life of me, understand why this isn't already here.--71.113.226.43 (talk) 11:09, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to recreate "fish disease" article
Well, your experience kind of proved my point stated above. "Disease in ornamental fishes" is obviously not a search key word for most people, but "fish disease" is. So, this should be moved back to "fish disease", which was the old name of this article before it was made a redirect to fish article. Some contents of both this and fish articles should also be moved/merged/rewrote accordingly. Please post your opinions whether you support or oppose my proposal to move it back --Melanochromis (talk) 11:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * SUPPORT as I am the one who proposed it. --Melanochromis (talk) 11:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * SUPPORT That definitely makes sense to me. I guess the only question I have is whether there should be, perhaps separately, something about fish disease in general (fish in nature, food fish) as opposed to just ornamentals. It is very wrong that the redirect goes to the top of fish, rather than, at least, to the section on disease within that page. But that section should link to here. --Tryptofish (talk) 14:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that External bacterial infection (fish) be merged into Disease in ornamental fish. I think that the content in the External bacterial infection article refers to ornamental fish only and can easily be incorporated into Disease in ornamental fish. The External bacterial infection article doesn't cite any sources, but the content could be equally well improved if it was within the Disease in ornamental fish article. DferDaisy (talk) 01:02, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. Yes, that makes good sense. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:00, 16 November 2017 (UTC)