Can anyone help with ID and possible treatment?
Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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lobowind
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Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
I have 10 SAPs in a 240g. Ph 6.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10. 10% of the water is replaced with RO every day. All puffers have good appetites and are acting fine. However, 3 of them have an external parasite of some sort. These three all have a few white cylindrical or conical protusions. Maybe around 1/2mm or less. (it is not ich). I have treated the tank twice with Jungle Parasite Clear with no effect. Today we removed these 3 puffers for obsveration and treatment in a hospital tank. While examining one fish, we used a tweezers to pull one of the "cysts" off the fish. While removing the cyst, it detached from the fish's body and contained a thread-like filament that extended into the fish's body. This filament came out with the cyst, and we placed it on a glass to observe under magnification. I have a drawing of it to give you an idea of the arrangement of the cyst and worm on the fish. Enjoy the stick fish.
Can anyone help with ID and possible treatment?
Can anyone help with ID and possible treatment?
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Re: Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
Do a Google search on "gill flukes" and "anchorworms" and see if either of those are something like what you are looking at.
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lobowind
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Tetraodon schoutedeni
Also kept:
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Carinotetraodon travancoricus - Location (country): USA
- Location: New Mexico
Re: Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
Definitely not anchor worm, and I don't think it's gill flukes because there aren't any other symptoms except these "cysts" you can see.
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Dadof4
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Re: Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
Possibly Roundworm? They have a soft "cyst-like" structure with a extension in to the body.
Picture http://badmanstropicalfish.com/fish_pal ... ymous.html
Picture http://badmanstropicalfish.com/fish_pal ... ymous.html
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Re: Does this parasite sound familiar to anyone?
Here are some links you can look through (It's really depressing pics):
http://www.fishforum.com/tropical-fish- ... ases-8179/
http://www.carolinafishtalk.com/forum/f ... luded.html
http://www.jbl.de/onlinehospitaluk/perp ... alleryId=2
http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseas ... rders.html
You can also have a look through this topic (you can click on the small pics to enlarge them). It's in Norwegian, so you can't read it. But if you find something that looks like what your fishes have, I can translate it for you. But not all the pics here have a diagnosis.
http://www.fishforum.com/tropical-fish- ... ases-8179/
http://www.carolinafishtalk.com/forum/f ... luded.html
http://www.jbl.de/onlinehospitaluk/perp ... alleryId=2
http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseas ... rders.html
You can also have a look through this topic (you can click on the small pics to enlarge them). It's in Norwegian, so you can't read it. But if you find something that looks like what your fishes have, I can translate it for you. But not all the pics here have a diagnosis.
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