Fish disease case nr. 253 Oranda panda goldfish: white spots in gills caused by parasites Sporozoa

Hello, dear Aquarist, welcome again to one of my cases on fish diseases. And today it's about an oranda, a fancy goldfish called Oranda panda, which is a nice, beautiful variety of fancy goldfish. And this was a special case, very unique in my findings because it was very uncommon to find this kind of, how can I say this? This kind of problem. So I will share with you my PowerPoint and to show my findings during my observations as a fish doctor. It's the Oranda panda with white spots in the gills, caused by parasites, sporozoa. Details on fish diseases you can find in my books, available in different languages. The link is below, where you can purchase them. Here we see an Oranda panda, which we took out of the new arrival of pandas that came in at an importer. And we could see, well, looking normal, behaving, maybe normal, but behavior of the gills, the respiration was too heavy and some of them were swimming abnormal. You can see this one here. Try to stay straight into the water. Have a hard time to have a good balance in the water. Swimming upside down. And here we see it again, some hanging at the surface upside down. So the fish was somewhere badly affected and was suffering. That's why it's the time to take that fish out to check. Another good example of examination is here. Just opening the gill cover, and we could spot in the gills some big white spots. See how big they are. It's much bigger than the white spot disease. Some people might suspect it's a white spot disease, the ichthyophtherias or neo ichthyophtherias. Well, it was not, because we did an examination with a microscope, and that reveals us something else. So we took out gills. You could see that the gills were in bad shape. There are a lot of other things around the gills. Smears that really well obstruct the gill lamellae. So the gills are not properly functioning anymore. You can see it here also, all this dark tissue that is engulfing the lamellae. So the lamellae will not function properly anymore. So we could see a white spot that we took out and we put it on a little glass plate. That's what you should do when you have a case like this. Take out that white spot, press it on a glass plate with a glass cover. And then we could see this in a microscope. All little spores, millions of spores that are organized as a white spot sitting together, encapsulated in one big ball with millions of spores inside. And we go to high magnification here. To 400. And we see the typical sporozoa parasites that do not move, they're sitting still. It's like the neon diseased, the Pleistophora, which also have this kind of looks. Well, this is a kind another kind of sporozoa. We checked on the skin and on the gills and we found well, one skin fluke. We found one little gill fluke. It's only one or two. Is that an infection? Well, it might become. But on this case we found one here, second one here in the skin and one here in the gill. So a skin fluke, one or two. Well, you. I can tell you when a fish is weak or weakened by a bacterial infection or like in this case the sporozoa infection, he will certainly have a chance also to attract other parasites. He's more vulnerable, more susceptible to get these kind of parasites on their body. Although they're not becoming an infection yet. An infection is. It means there has to be a larger quantity of parasites and there are always a few skin or gill flukes in the aquarium particularly you have a lot of fish together. It's always a risk. But that doesn't mean there is an infection. That's with all the pathogens we found inside. Also the sporozoi here. And we found a very bad spleen. So the organs, the liver was bad. We had the organs internally. So lessons to be learned here. Learn to check the gills without killing the fish. Maybe as a proper examination, just check the gills. How it looks? Maybe they look completely white necrotic like a bacterial infection. So far I know there is no medication that kills those porozoa parasites to kill them eventually to get rid of them. Usually the breeder is the cause during the contact with fish with sporozoa. Usually it comes from the wild with water that he gets supply from the river or with fish food that is contaminated with sporozoa. Some fish might do well and have little or no infection and do perfectly normal. So it's sometimes very specific for a few fish, but still interesting to learn that this infection cannot be treated and that you can have a little amount of flukes that might become an infection. So you have to watch out for it, of course that this might have an effect on the quality of the fish. And you can help with our Dr. Basler the BAI fish food that can help the health of the fish like aloe vera or professional treat. We have special ones you can check on our website to find details on our fish food. 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