Parasite Videos

[Davej]

Maybe useful to have these in one place.

Few clips for you to enjoy

Costia

[youtube]xhd3SJVh4OU[/youtube]

Whitespot

[youtube]bN_iocsWjBY[/youtube]

Skin and Gill Fluke

[youtube]rudMoriCEHA[/youtube]

Trichodina
[youtube]S1m1VHcPC88[/YouTube]

Apiosoma (Parasitic gill disease)
[youtube]nKbyHxzXLQo[/YouTube]

Chilodonella
[youtube]6apw6xkM8yU[/YouTube]


Epistylis
[youtube]5wUJNy2QqBo[/YouTube]

[miles41]

Good idea Dave. Not the most glamourous of videos, but very useful for when you gazing into your microscope

[Kanundra]

Agreed, the critters suck but we need to know them.

[MonkeyHarris]

Great videos Dave, very useful. I guess that Costia is getting zapped now

[Davej]

Great videos Dave, very useful. I guess that Costia is getting zapped now

Yep Paul, the Costia is work in progress

Will see what PP does, if not in the interests of science I may just have a play with something a little different from the usual PP or M&F.

The mag is a little confusing when using a USB camera, to give you an idea of scale - towards the end of the clip I changed lenses and the size on the Vid at the very end is typical of what you would see at 100x.

Dave

[MonkeyHarris]

The 100x really gives you and idea of how many there are.

What magnifications do you use for each critter? I know this is probably posted somewhere

[voodoo_15_uk]

brilliant, its a fab idea.

Trichodina
Trichodina - YouTube

Apiosoma (Parasitic gill disease)
Apiosoma Parasiten 2009.AVI - YouTube

Chilodonella
CHILODONELLA CILIATE - YouTube
Chilodonella Uncinata 400X - YouTube

Epistylis
Epistylis colony - YouTube


(sorry i dont know how to get it on like you)

[voodoo_15_uk]

can this be made a sticky??

[Davej]

The 100x really gives you and idea of how many there are.

What magnifications do you use for each critter? I know this is probably posted somewhere

Not sure what exact mag the USB camera is producing but I would think that the images are showing on screen at around 250x - 300X mag, the whitespot zooms in to double this at around the 2min mark.

Dave

[Davej]

brilliant, its a fab idea.

Trichodina
[youtube]S1m1VHcPC88[/YouTube]

Apiosoma (Parasitic gill disease)
[youtube]nKbyHxzXLQo[/YouTube]

Chilodonella
[youtube]6apw6xkM8yU[/YouTube]


Epistylis
[youtube]5wUJNy2QqBo[/YouTube]


(sorry i dont know how to get it on like you)

You just done it

Dave

[voodoo_15_uk]

yay! thanks lol

i am feeling rather itchy now though.....maybe need a skin scrape

[markf1fan]

Awesome dave thanks for adding this and its now a sticky thread.

[voodoo_15_uk]

good stuff, wont have to look through all my books now can just scroll down and press play to compare

thanks guys

[greengrass]

Its good to be able to recognise your foe , I remember seeing Trich on my microscope and thinking oooh look Trichodina ..oh $hit I got Trichodina , do you think partasites are more prolific now than they were say 10 years ago due to resistance of the treatments

[Davej]

Ive added Laura's critters to the opening post..

Dave

[voodoo_15_uk]

a few more, feel free to move them as you see fit.

Fish Lice
Common Koi Parasites - Fish Lice - YouTube

Fish Leech (dont need a scope for these little suckers)
Fish leech (Piscicola geometra) - YouTube

it cost me £600 to get rid of these from my pond and i lost 14 large koi it was a very sad and infuriating month for me

[greengrass]

a few more, feel free to move them as you see fit.

Fish Lice
Common Koi Parasites - Fish Lice - YouTube

Fish Leech (dont need a scope for these little suckers)
Fish leech (Piscicola geometra) - YouTube

it cost me £600 to get rid of these from my pond and i lost 14 large koi it was a very sad and infuriating month for me

£600 ..bloody heck what was you treating with , how did you finally get rid of them

[voodoo_15_uk]

the general ''pond stuff'' wasnt strong enough so i had to use the aquarium stuff at £9.00 per 20ml bottle.

i also had to treat every koi topically as where the leeches had attached themselves and bitten ulcers started.
one koi that was 2 ft had 175 leeches on it.

[perks842]

This is a great topic, I don't suppose anyone has close ups of carp pox do they? I suspect one of my koi has it and have been advised to do a scrape however I don't want to do it till I have something to compare to.

[Davej]

This is a great topic, I don't suppose anyone has close ups of carp pox do they? I suspect one of my koi has it and have been advised to do a scrape however I don't want to do it till I have something to compare to.

Hiya

You wont see carp pox on a scrape, its clearly visable on the fish with naked eye.

A scrape would help confirm whether the white patches on your fish are something other than carp pox.

Duncan put together a useful article on Carp Pox on his Koiquest site that may help you.

http://www.koiquest.co.uk/Cpox.pdf

Dave