Blisters on fish?

[Donna (UK)]

Hi All

My boyfriend and I pulled out a baby fish from last year as it was
swimming around the top of the pond. Upon looking at it, it has a pine
cone effect (second fish to get dropsy now) and on its sides it has
what looks like round blister type lumps... Any idea what this is, I
have tried looking for parasites but am drawing blanks as can not find
any photos to compare it to.

Thank you

[Charles]

On 7 May 2006 15:45:14 -0700, "Donna (UK)" >
wrote:

>Hi All
>
>My boyfriend and I pulled out a baby fish from last year as it was
>swimming around the top of the pond. Upon looking at it, it has a pine
>cone effect (second fish to get dropsy now) and on its sides it has
>what looks like round blister type lumps... Any idea what this is, I
>have tried looking for parasites but am drawing blanks as can not find
>any photos to compare it to.
>
>Thank you


Try a Google image search for argulus.

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http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/disease/symptom/byname.htm#dropsy
click on "dropsy pictures"\
I had one like that too. Ingrid

"Donna (UK)" > wrote:

>Hi All
>
>My boyfriend and I pulled out a baby fish from last year as it was
>swimming around the top of the pond. Upon looking at it, it has a pine
>cone effect (second fish to get dropsy now) and on its sides it has
>what looks like round blister type lumps... Any idea what this is, I
>have tried looking for parasites but am drawing blanks as can not find
>any photos to compare it to.
>
>Thank you



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