Nasties or not?

[Gajowa]

Hi everyone
Friend of our imported heckels recently. He check them, and this is what he forund

http://pkmd.pl/pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=5860

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2909/98y.mp4
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1969/m0k.mp4
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1182/5pk.mp4

[Jennie]

isn't that pretty! Is this a skin scrape or poop slide

[Gajowa]

Hi everyone
Friend of our imported heckels recently. He check them, and this is what he forund

http://pkmd.pl/pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=5860

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2909/98y.mp4
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1969/m0k.mp4
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1182/5pk.mp4

Will be greatfull for any help

[Eddie]

Hi everyone
Friend of our imported heckels recently. He check them, and this is what he forund

http://pkmd.pl/pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=5860

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2909/98y.mp4
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1969/m0k.mp4
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1182/5pk.mp4

Will be greatfull for any help

When you say he checked them, what is this a sample of?

[Gajowa]

That I don't know. He wrote only "sludge" from heckels.
Lot of them didn't survive the trip to Poland

[Eddie]

That I don't know. He wrote only "sludge" from heckels.
Lot of them didn't survive the trip to Poland

Thats difficult to diagnose as anything in the water could be on that slide. Ask to see if he performed a scrape from the fish.

[Jennie]

I swore I saw few flukes

[Gajowa]

That sample was taken from the bottom of the quarantine tank, which was sterilised before heckels arrived. More samples

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2053/j81.mp4
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5061/45z.mp4

[plecocicho]

The creature with legs, who is akwardly moving around is a Tardigrade. Member of the prearthropode lineage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade Harmless and it evokes your parents feeling, at least by female biology students. :)

[scottthomas]

There are vast numbers of creatures in our tanks all of the time. You could freak yourself out and worry needlessly all the time if you keep looking at samples from the bottom of the aquarium. That would make me quit keeping fish probably. The only ones that I dont like the look of are the worm like things in first pics. Maybe nematodes? Still, probably just harmless critters unless your fish showing symptoms.

[jimg]

There are vast numbers of creatures in our tanks all of the time. You could freak yourself out and worry needlessly all the time if you keep looking at samples from the bottom of the aquarium. That would make me quit keeping fish probably. The only ones that I dont like the look of are the worm like things in first pics. Maybe nematodes? Still, probably just harmless critters unless your fish showing symptoms.

+1

[pcsb23]

Looks like a poop sample and those look like capillaria (the long wriggly things)

I merged two threads together as they both had answers on.