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Leech?
#1
Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:11 PM
#2
Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:31 PM
I have never taken one off of a darter, but have removed them from sunfish before.
I would be concerned with a darter as they are so small, but if you can catch the fish and do the tweezer removal task underwater, you might not stress the fish too much...
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:50 PM
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Guest_gerald_*
Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:56 PM
#5
Posted 02 November 2014 - 08:42 PM
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 02 November 2014 - 08:57 PM
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 02 November 2014 - 09:06 PM
#8
Posted 09 November 2014 - 10:24 AM
#9
Posted 09 November 2014 - 12:00 PM
#10
Posted 10 December 2014 - 09:03 PM
#11
Posted 24 February 2015 - 02:15 AM
Saltwater bath or brackish water bath. That'll make any clingy parasite drop right off. I've used it on isopods and ich parasites, and it should work quite well on leeches. It's basically my go-to solution for any issue involving any form of the phrase "eww, bloodsucking thing on my fish!"
Try a bottle trap to catch him.
Edited by Betta132, 24 February 2015 - 02:15 AM.
#12
Posted 24 February 2015 - 11:04 AM
Parasitic isopod on freshwater fish? I'd like to see that. Did you get any pictures of it?
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#13
Posted 25 February 2015 - 04:48 AM
No, it was years ago. I'm not actually certain it was an isopod, that's just the closest match I've seen. It was on a zebra danio, and it had burrowed under the slime coat and attached to the skin. Once it detached, the slime coat was bulged outwards slightly in that spot if you looked at it from the right angle, like what's left after you pop a blister. The parasite was about 1/8" long, about half that wide, isopod-shaped, white, and segmented. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was a parasite of some kind, and I knew saltwater baths work on external parasites. It dropped off after a minute or two in the saltwater and I got rid of it.
I don't think it was a worm, and it wasn't anything else I've seen. Are freshwater parasitic isopods a thing?
#14
Posted 25 February 2015 - 05:13 PM
I just didn't realize there were any, until now, thanks to you and Google:
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
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