rotting nose disease

rotting nose disease
the formation of small, grey, pin-hole abrasions around the nose that eat at the flesh, leave the fish open to secondary infections, and eventually can kill the fish. Attributed to malnutrition and found in ssuch fishes as oscars (the cichlid Astronotus ocellatus)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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