![]() The folks with the healthiest ponds will probably have a few million of these little crunchies in their ponds, living among the plants or on the pond bottom.Īs I mentioned, most of what I have seen in Koi and Goldfish has either been a Tapeworm or a Capillaria species.Īnother word for Tapeworm is “Cestodes” and they infect Koi. These vaguely-referred “copepods” include all your “fish favorites”: Tiny, naturally-occurring fish food-organisms like Cyclops, amphipods, isopods, microcrustaceans, insect larvae, and even annelid worms like Tubifex. Regardless of whether we are talking about Tapeworms, Nematodes, or whatever, the vast majority of intestinal parasites depend on transmission through a happenstance copepod. In other words, they are feeding on, or living in the Koi. They are squiggly tubular living organisms and usually, they’re USING a host. Worms can be short, or long, thin or fat, white or red. ![]() Half the time, it’s “Capillaria” and the other half the time it’s Tapes, probably “Bothrio” from a breeder farm. ![]() About once every 3 months I necropsy a fish and find this. In the first place, I have diagnosed worms in Koi and Goldfish. Let’s take a look at “worms” in Koi and see if we can make heads or tails of it. And if you were in a group of fish farmers and breeders who lost almost all your fish to a tapeworm like “Bothrio”, you would immediately challenge my nonchalance. ![]() Which is true, however, there are many notable exceptions. In fact, your Koi and goldfish could have worms and you would probably never know it.” In the past, the discussion of intestinal and other parasitic worms in Koi and Goldfish has been abbreviated thusly: “Worms and intestinal parasites of Koi and Goldfish are usually not severe enemies. A discussion of the major worms and their control ![]()
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