| Re: mystery fish ailment - can anyone help? |
Subject: Re: mystery fish ailment - can anyone help? by fredrick_more on 10/10/2007 21:40:16 Ive had a look in my book and it can be; "Elongated oval objects measuring up to 10mm, stick up out of the skin. - This involves the egg pouches of copepods (parasites)" "A swelling forms in the muscle under the skin during the course of several weeks, and my protude way out from the surface of the body. The scales can be lifted too at the site. - A sporozoan cyst or lesion form in musculature" or "Light coloured spherical prominences which look like eggs but cannot be wiped off form on the skinn and fins. 0.5 to 2mm in size - Your fish is affected with Lymphocystis, an incurable viral disease" More info to follow Refence: Handbook of Fish Diseases, Dieter Untergasser |