stickleback disease; white boils?!

[lipase]

check out this stickleback I found:


Does anyone have any idea what disease this is?
It's the only stickleback I caught in that specific pond but I kept it because of the interesting disease and to see if I could cure it!

I have almost no idea about fish diseases but to me it looks too big to be white spot. My best guess in LYMPHOCYSTIS but apparently it's rare in freshwater fish. Admittedly I did find it in ediburgh in a pond about a mile from the sea

[AshLee]

Could be Glugea anomala, in which case I don't think there is a cure (this is a guess; I'm only trying to help this thread out as I saw it hadn't had an answer yet. But there is a picture on the net that shows a Stickleback with a similar condition).

[Kayleigh]

Hope you find out what the poor fish has..
Is the fish still alive lipase..

[tom00_uk]

best thing for it would be to cull it, its not going to survive with any quality of life and could go on to infect other fish in your aquaria esp if it dies in the tank and they eat it

[Lance Morgan]

I agree with Ashlee - microsporidium infection Glugea anomala

[lipase]

Originally Posted by AshLee

Could be Glugea anomala, in which case I don't think there is a cure (this is a guess; I'm only trying to help this thread out as I saw it hadn't had an answer yet. But there is a picture on the net that shows a Stickleback with a similar condition).

yes! I think you must be right assuming the dude on the net knows what he's talking about!

found that pic you were on about I think:

Cheers Ashlee and Lance

[lipase]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Hope you find out what the poor fish has..
Is the fish still alive lipase..

Hi Kayleigh, yeah the fish is still alive! Unfortunately I think It might be best to kill it having found out what the parasite is . It’s probably best I don’t give this parasite a chance to spread to other sticklebacks and I’m guessing the stickleback’s not having a great time

[lipase]

Originally Posted by tom00_uk

best thing for it would be to cull it, its not going to survive with any quality of life and could go on to infect other fish in your aquaria esp if it dies in the tank and they eat it

Yeah I think you’re right. Apparently this sort of thing can transfer to humans sometimes which would be interesting!

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by lipase

Yeah I think you’re right. Apparently this sort of thing can transfer to humans sometimes which would be interesting!

OMG....was that YOUR hand it was on in the pic..

glad you found out what was wrong with the little guy although it was bad news you may have stopped the parasite spreading to the other fish..
Disgusting thing parasites.

[tom00_uk]

[quote=Kayleigh
Disgusting thing parasites.[/QUOTE]

they are some of the most interesting things on the planet in mho, the way some are so specialist and go through five different hosts and make use of land and water species and then when they have outgrown their current host they can alter behavior to ensure the animal is either predated or moves to a location where infection of new individual is more likely is fascinating