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Unread 03/24/2013, 04:25 PM   #1
snake42490
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Parasite Identification - Microscope Pictures

Hey guys, I had made a thread earlier about possible brook outbreak with my new shipment of fish. Anyway, neighbor is a biologist and thought what the heck I will ask them. We took all the new fish down to the lab this morning for three hours and took various samples from the fish. Mostly gill samples. Anyway, I think we ruled out brook for sure. I think what we found though is
Amyloodinium ocellatum aka VELVET!

This is for sure a parasite, what the books he found showed is that ich is more a clearish form and that velvet is more brownish and doesn't move. The can be round or pear shaped. There were thousands of these parasites on the tissue and we had to dilute the sample multiple times because of the amount.


We also found many copepod parasites on the gill tissues (Anyone, are these deadly or common?) The guy I did this with thought these weren't deadly to the host unlike the other one.


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