Re: cammalanus

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Bob,

The only people I have seen with it or heard of getting it are from people
who feed tubifex/black worms.  We have friends who feed wild daphnia and
have never heard of any problems.  Now we raise ours in a kiddie pool in
the back yard :).   I have only seen this twice, once from fish I picked
up fish at an auction, those died, after the tank was treated.  The others
are the ones I picked up from a Vancouver buddy.  Fortunately I had kept
them isolated for months.  Usually I had heard a four week isolation was
enought, these guys were going o 3 or so months.


Kathy


On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 IDMiamiBob@aol.com wrote:

> Mike Wise writes:
> 
> > 
> >  In Andrews, et. al. The Manual of Fish Health it says, "Although Camallanus
> >  nematodes usually require a copepod ('water flea') intermediate host to 
> > convey
> >  the juvenile worm from fish to fish, this parasite also appears to be able 
> > to
> >  pass from fish to fish directly - at least for several generations.
> 
> Does this mean we could have problems from collecting wild daphnia?  Or is 
> this cammalanus strictly a tropical critter?
> 
> Bob Dixon
> 
> 
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