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)
[edit] 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)
