Do yourself a favor..Get a Microscope

[f793wm]

This one only cost me about $80 on Amazon. Learn to use it and you’ll know exactly what your dealing with.

Note: Tang in first video was Ok. 2nd short video is from an Angel. In that video you can see both ich and velvet.

Hope this helps.

 

[Big G]

Nice scope. Consider adding a gram staining kit.

 

[Deinonych]

I see Cryptocaryon (large spheroid object in center of frame), but not Amyloodinium. Amyloodinium is much smaller. The smaller protozoans moving about look more like Brooklynella or Uronema to me.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Can you please post a link, and your bottom video looks a bit blurry, is it just the camera or that’s the best resolution you can get ?

 

[f793wm]

I see Cryptocaryon (large spheroid object in center of frame), but not Amyloodinium. Amyloodinium is much smaller. The smaller protozoans moving about look more like Brooklynella or Uronema to me.

Maybe. Based on the fish symptoms and how quick it hit, I concluded that the little clear circles were Marine Velvet (Amyloodinium), but it could be Brooklynella. Additionally, the protozoans moving about looked like the free-swimming theronts stage of Ich (Cryptocaryon), but it's possible they are Uronema. Both look very similar. I would not have suspected that a fish came down with 3 different parasites simultaneously though. Ich and Velvet are much more likely and wide-spread. Thanks for your feedback.

Can you please post a link, and your bottom video looks a bit blurry, is it just the camera or that’s the best resolution you can get ?

sorry the video isn't clearer. It's actually from my iphone looking through the lense of the microscope. Here is the link, however there are more expensive microscopes that have USB plugin to record and transfer video. I went the cheap route though. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AM5XB5O/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[dansreef]

Great Post. I am a big believer that if you are in this hobby, a microscope can be a great tool. I have not used it for fish parasites and or illnesses. I have used it often to get an idea of what may be growing on the sand, rock or glass...i.e algae, diatoms, cyano or dinoflagellates. I have a previous version of the scope you have and have had it for a few years now. I think I paid $70 or so... Given how much money we spend on fish and coral, not to mention other equipment.... it is a nice tool to have.

Good luck with your fish in QT!

 

[f793wm]

Great Post. I am a big believer that if you are in this hobby, a microscope can be a great tool. I have not used it for fish parasites and or illnesses. I have used it often to get an idea of what may be growing on the sand, rock or glass...i.e algae, diatoms, cyano or dinoflagellates. I have a previous version of the scope you have and have had it for a few years now. I think I paid $70 or so... Given how much money we spend on fish and coral, not to mention other equipment.... it is a nice tool to have.

Good luck with your fish in QT!

Thank you. Indeed $$ well spent. I only wish I had gotten one that has digital video capture and transfer.

 

[Deinonych]

Maybe. Based on the fish symptoms and how quick it hit, I concluded that the little clear circles were Marine Velvet (Amyloodinium), but it could be Brooklynella. Additionally, the protozoans moving about looked like the free-swimming theronts stage of Ich (Cryptocaryon), but it's possible they are Uronema. Both look very similar. I would not have suspected that a fish came down with 3 different parasites simultaneously though. Ich and Velvet are much more likely and wide-spread. Thanks for your feedback.

Theronts are much smaller, and it's unlikely you would see them from a skin scrape due to the fact that they are the free swimming stage (i.e. once they identify the host, they bury themselves in the fish's epithelium and transition to the trophont, or feeding stage). Here's what a free-swimming theront looks like: http://www.labspaces.net/pictures/blog/4d77b0cadac781299689674_blog.jpg

Totally agree that Brooklynella and Uronema are difficult to distinguish. Anyway, totally agree that a microscope is a powerful tool in this hobby!

 

[K7BMG]

Yes I can see a microscope could be of use, however.
Need to find a reference on aquarium microscopic organism and parasite identification first though.

Microscope purchase easy.
Obtaining the sample, then preparing the slide properly, needs to be learned, so maybe not so easy.
Then understanding what you see even more complex information, to discern and get right.

Went through several threads here so far, most answers seem to be, looks like or could be, over this is.
Maybe I am or have just been searching the wrong threads.
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[SDK]

If you take your time, you can pore over the used microscope listings on EBAY and buy a quality scope for pennies on the dollar. They are often part of fire sales when schools or businesses upgrade or are closed/liquidated.

I picked up a $500 microscope there about ten years ago and paid somewhere around $20 for it.....