This interferes with respiration (resulting in additional stress), and eventually causes gill membranes to become susceptible to bacterial and parasitic invasion.
They told me that it used dechorinator (which to me is Sodium Thiosulfate - I stand corrected) to remove the chlorine and a special ingredient that formed a colloid with the freed ammonia that was too big to cross the gill membranes, ...
If ozone can destroy cell membranes, keep in mind that it can do the same thing to the sensitive gill membranes of fish and outer membranes of invertebrates. Ozone also can be harmful to humans. Ozone has a pungent "odor.
(Actually they breathe oxygen not air.) As water passes over a system of extremely fine gill membranes, fish absorb the water's oxygen content.
Branchiostegal
rays bones that are ventral (under) to the opercles (gill covers) which support gill membranes.
Caudal fin
the tail fin.
are hemolytic in their action, splitting up blood cells. Additionally, in sufficient concentration, the actual gill membranes will dissolve in their presence. Both these reduce respiratory capacity (no duh!) ...
Vitamin B5 (Pantothene acid)
effect: hormone production, metabolism
symptoms of deficiency: weakness, sticking gill membranes
source: liver, paprika ...
does not look like much when small, but when they mature - and especially when they are in breeding colors - they are spectacular to behold. Mature fish, when sparring with each other or trying to scare away an opponent, distend their gill membranes ...
The Digestible Energy or the DE of food is the amount that is utilized and digested, minus the portion that ends up in the feces. In fish, some DE is lost through the urine and across the gill membranes.
 See also: Fish, Water, Gill, Aquarium, Plants
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