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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Follow effective personal health management practices
   • Maintain personal hygiene and cleanliness standards according to WHS and workplace policies and procedures
   • Identify disease agents and their impact on aquatic animals
   • Implement work practices to protect self from, and minimise spread of, zoonotic diseases
2. Identify unhealthy aquatic animals
   • Identify unhealthy aquatic animals and record information according to workplace policies and procedures
   • Identify injured aquatic animals and report to supervisors
   • Identify abnormal behaviour and condition in aquatic animals and report to supervisors
   • Maintain records for unhealthy aquatic animals according to workplace policies and procedures
3. Sample, analyse and adjust aquascape water quality
   • Collect water samples using appropriate equipment according to workplace policies and procedures
   • Test samples using appropriate equipment and according to manufactures directions
   • Record sampling results according to workplace policies and procedures
   • Adjust water quality to better suit the requirements of the aquascape and species
   • Maintain optimum water quality records for the aquascape and species according to industry requirements
4. Administer aquatic animal treatments
   • Identify broad categories of parasitic infestations and viral, fungal and bacterial diseases
   • Administer appropriate and authorised aquatic animal treatments
   • Implement preventative medicine programs for internal and external parasites
   • Store treatments and medicines appropriately
   • Maintain records for treatments and medicine programs according to workplace policies and procedures and legislative requirements