I watched a friend loose much of his prized pleco collection to parasites, and I also had major issues with a bunch of bristlenose in my fish room years ago, so I always suspected that many sucker catfish are carrying parasites, but I never realised just how bad it was until I got a qualified vet to do some testing on store bought catfish, we bought 3 species of catfish, 2 out of 3 were carrying parasitic worms.
We made this video link below, which shows you how to find and identify parasitic worm eggs under the microscope and how to detect whether your catfish are infected with worms or other parasites, I hope you find the info useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GKXnnXyuss
We plan to send the eggs we found to the lab and get a parasite expert to identify the exact species of worms and we will do another vid with exact details for effective treatments in a video in the future, will keep you updated.
If you are having issues with diseases that have been hard to solve or have a high loss rate please let me know in this thread and Dr Loh and I will try to cover the topic in one of our future videos and try to work out an effective treatment plan.
Cheers
Den
We made this video link below, which shows you how to find and identify parasitic worm eggs under the microscope and how to detect whether your catfish are infected with worms or other parasites, I hope you find the info useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GKXnnXyuss
We plan to send the eggs we found to the lab and get a parasite expert to identify the exact species of worms and we will do another vid with exact details for effective treatments in a video in the future, will keep you updated.
If you are having issues with diseases that have been hard to solve or have a high loss rate please let me know in this thread and Dr Loh and I will try to cover the topic in one of our future videos and try to work out an effective treatment plan.
Cheers
Den