Elite Koi Fish Health Skin Fluke & Costia - Main focus on the very small Koi / Fish Parasite Costia

Really interesting Scrape this, Two Koi brought in for a look at. One was obviously very healthy and the other was very weak and emaciated. It also had a largish patch of green fungus on its shoulder which I would suspect had been there quite a while. Water came back good so we took a scrape from both Koi on the same slide.
The upper part of the slide which had the mucous on from the healthy Koi only showed up 2 Skin Flukes. The lower part of the same is the mucous from the sick Koi and you can clearly see the opportunistic Costia on this weak Koi. The young lad was quite upset about his small Koi so I've tasked him with getting rid of the Costia and bringing a Koi back for a scrape next week. We also let him pick another Koi.
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This Mucous sample was examined using the
GX Microscope UltraBIO-3 series (trinocular)
The GX range of microscopes is a great entry level microscope for using to check your Koi Mucous samples. They have 4 objectives, which when used with the 10x eyepieces deliver 40x, 100x, 400x and 1000x (oil immersion) magnification. You can see from the microscope tuition videos and Koi Parasite identification videos we are producing that these simple to use microscopes deliver clear images of the Koi parasites allowing for early and correct diagnosis of Fish parasites.
If you purchase your microscope from Elite Koi, we will give you a place on one of our Microscope use workshops free.
The Microscope is one of the most important pieces of equipment for any Koi hobbyist / enthusiast but knowing how to use one correctly is vital for identifying Parasites such as
Whitespot - • Elite Koi Fish Health ...
Costia
Chillodonella
Trichodina
Skin Fluke
Gill Fluke

[@Zeamus634]

Fascinating what you can't see with the naked eye.

[@elitekoi]

Very fascinating. There is a whole new world awaiting on the pond walls and this is an excellent place to use a sample from when starting out with a microscope 🔬

[@Chequr_Prostate]

This video is so helpful to newcomers like myself, cheers 👍

[@elitekoi]

I'm really pleased to hear this Andy. Using the microscope can be a bitter sweet experience as we do not want to see something but if we do not, we tend to start questioning ourselves if we are using the scope correctly. Another top tip to get used to the microscope is to take a sample from the pond side or from the filter side. It's amazing the amount of life you will find in a tiny sample.