Mmathis
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A pond-wide problem!!
Found one of my gold fish semi-floating earlier. She looked like she was struggling to breathe. I put her in a bucket with an airstone, then started through all the diagnostics I could think of. Did the best exam I could.
Nothing external seems wrong with her. She wasn't previously acting any different than normal.
Her gills didn't look normal, though -- they looked like they were all mashed up, like hamburger. They looked more like an internal organ, say a liver, instead of like gills Normally, when I pull the gill cover up, I see layers of "gill things" [sorry] underneath -- I didn't see separate "things" this time.
I did multiple scrapes but didn't find anything [still learning to "operate" the microscope and still never 100% sure what I'm seeing....]. Did actually get some gill tissue, so I watched a video that showed the difference between normal & abnormal gill tissue under the microscope.
That prompted me to re-do my scrapings and I think I hit pay-dirt! I was able to take pictures via my camera [not smartphone], but will have to wait for hubby to get home so we can set up the wi-fi allowing me to "share" them with the iPad -- then I'll have some microscope shots for you. There was nothing moving on the slides, but things were there that I don't recall seeing before.
Also, on the slide with the gill tissue, it looked like there were little grains of rice scattered around, but they weren't moving and I didn't see "eye spots" or anything, so don't know if they were significant. I went back to take a picture, but couldn't find them the 2nd time.
Here are pics I took when I brought her in. I'm going out now to check water, but will post this now and report water later.
I'm really NOT expecting her to survive -- she isn't even struggling much any more, but if this is what has been causing the occasional deaths [like one or 2 a month] that I was having, and is something I can treat....... Well, I don't want to lose her, but.......something good will have come of her death
Found one of my gold fish semi-floating earlier. She looked like she was struggling to breathe. I put her in a bucket with an airstone, then started through all the diagnostics I could think of. Did the best exam I could.
Nothing external seems wrong with her. She wasn't previously acting any different than normal.
Her gills didn't look normal, though -- they looked like they were all mashed up, like hamburger. They looked more like an internal organ, say a liver, instead of like gills Normally, when I pull the gill cover up, I see layers of "gill things" [sorry] underneath -- I didn't see separate "things" this time.
I did multiple scrapes but didn't find anything [still learning to "operate" the microscope and still never 100% sure what I'm seeing....]. Did actually get some gill tissue, so I watched a video that showed the difference between normal & abnormal gill tissue under the microscope.
That prompted me to re-do my scrapings and I think I hit pay-dirt! I was able to take pictures via my camera [not smartphone], but will have to wait for hubby to get home so we can set up the wi-fi allowing me to "share" them with the iPad -- then I'll have some microscope shots for you. There was nothing moving on the slides, but things were there that I don't recall seeing before.
Also, on the slide with the gill tissue, it looked like there were little grains of rice scattered around, but they weren't moving and I didn't see "eye spots" or anything, so don't know if they were significant. I went back to take a picture, but couldn't find them the 2nd time.
Here are pics I took when I brought her in. I'm going out now to check water, but will post this now and report water later.
I'm really NOT expecting her to survive -- she isn't even struggling much any more, but if this is what has been causing the occasional deaths [like one or 2 a month] that I was having, and is something I can treat....... Well, I don't want to lose her, but.......something good will have come of her death
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