This is followed by a 'rogues' gallery of common freshwater fish parasites.
Set up for a parasite check, microscopes, digital scales etc
'Ich' - white spot
Trichodina
Lots of Trichodina plus two scales
Chilodonella and Myxobacteria
Lots of Costia in mucus
Dactylogyrus - gill fluke
Dactylogyrus attached to gills
Gyrodactylus - skin fluke
Gyrodactylus in skin mucus and calls
Argulus - fish louse
A rainbow trout with a massive Argulus infection
Ergasilus from the gills
Diplostomum around and in the trout lens
Cystidicola in the trout swimbladder
Eubothrium in a brown trout, protruding down the gut into the lower intestine
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