I have gotten to a time in my koi keeping after 4 yrs that I am ready to start scoping my fish and want to have my own STUFF instead of going to Mississippi to my friends with a baggie of fish slime.......thanks for replies in advance....Billy
I have gotten to a time in my koi keeping after 4 yrs that I am ready to start scoping my fish and want to have my own STUFF instead of going to Mississippi to my friends with a baggie of fish slime.......thanks for replies in advance....Billy
I bought my scope from Ebay.
slide samples like with parasites already on them?
I've seen some on Ebay in the past(very reasonable) as Vipertom has mentioned.
If you are looking for pre-prepared samples of various parasites, they don't exist. When you take a sample, it is hard to keep the parasites alive for more than a few minutes. Between drying out, and the heat of the lamp, they are very fragile.
If you are looking for a microscope, there are some good ones on ebay. Just be sure that it has the optics for 40/100/400 power, a light source (not mirror), and a moving stage.
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If looking for parasite identification, here's a great thread that Cindy created and has helped me alot...
https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showth...s-in-the-works
I used to teach parasitology, so I know that there are a lot of prepared slides out there for this topic. I have an entire set of them that I inherited when they closed this departmet down at the university. Also, at the clinical lab where I do parasitology, we also make our own prepared slides after staining. they are permanently mounted with a resin-type mounting medium (that for the life of me I can't remember the name of). It's probably called perma-mount or something similar. We've used it to make permanent mounts of insects, worms, protozoan parasites in a liquid solution; stained mounts that have gone through a fixing process, etc.). Not sure if they have koi parasite slides, but most of the university slides were purchased from either Carolina Biologicals or Ward's Scientific. I believe Fisher Scientific was also starting to get into biological specimens. As for a mounting medium (if you want to try to prepare some of your own for reference): Try doing a google search of permament mounting medium for microscope slides.
Here is a review of different types of mounting medium:
http://www.microbehunter.com/2010/01...or-microscopy/
hope this helps a bit,
Nancy
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