I took a picture of some of my fish and someone noticed a Y on one of them and told me it was an anchor worm. I've never seen one.
Can anyone confirm?
I took a picture of some of my fish and someone noticed a Y on one of them and told me it was an anchor worm. I've never seen one.
Can anyone confirm?
,Karen
Charter member #57
My motto: Trust No One
I'm trying to find a photo of my significant other.
KD
Have You Hugged Your Koi Today?
I guess that could be another name for children too.
,Karen
Charter member #57
My motto: Trust No One
I hope that's a small fish... That's the longest one I've ever seen.
sarah
It's not about the storms we endure, it's about learning to dance in the rain! (even when it's INSIDE your house)
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Where there's grass.... there's room for pond...
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sedate it, use PP at the base where the worm attached itself and gently pull it with tweezers. Treat the pond with dimilin or Anchor's away(2 treatments/14days apart). Watch the area for secondary infection.
sarah
It's not about the storms we endure, it's about learning to dance in the rain! (even when it's INSIDE your house)
North Florida Koi Club
www.koihealth.org
http://www.koistuff.com
Where there's grass.... there's room for pond...
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
If it is an anchor worm it won't move to another place on the fish , right?
So it should still be in the same place tomorrow.
Maybe I'm in denial but I don't think it is a worm. But anything is possible.
I was looking thru all the photos I took and there is nothing on any of the other fish. That I can see anyway. I can zoom in pretty good.
I did notice the Iris plant leaves look like strings when they rot.
I'll check them out though and do what needs done.
,Karen
Charter member #57
My motto: Trust No One
I don't think it is an anchor worm. I've never seen one that long.
Mitch
I vote no too
The only finished bonsai is a dead one
V. Wood "92
It looks like one, but its too big.
I think its something floating on the surface of the water.
Definately check the fish in the am.
"To bosom friend, to gracious host
To those who fall, and those who lift
To those who give, yet mark not gift
To healing, hope, and circumstance
To faith, to fate, to meetings chance"
-Bob Kublin (who I have not met)
Y'all are making me feel much better now.
The pictures I've found of anchor worms on the web look more like koi wiskers stuck to the sides and belly of the fish. Not like thin strings.
I think it's debris.
,Karen
Charter member #57
My motto: Trust No One