Who or what are the carriers of diseases infecting ponds?

[Gazza]

Hi Sam,

Glad we can help and yes its amazing what some people think they need to do to treat their ponds for parasites

[Duncan]

i will give you an example with gill fluke

gill fluke are egg layers and they are not like other egg layers who usually shed a pond to the pond floor or lay on some blanket weed in an orderly fassion. once fluke shed there eggs into the water column they literally go anywhere through your pump and pipe work into your filters you name sit they will scatter every where now these will eventually settle out by catching on Mulm/ detritus in your pipes pond and filters , here they will get covered up with still more filth till they are submerged

on thr back of this there is no set incubation time indeed they can stay in stasis till things like temperature come to a more suitable zone for them to hatch

now along we come with some supaverm or flubenol and treat for fluke and sure as eggs is eggs ( pun intended ) a few days later we can find no flukes but how far did that treatment get into the the dead stinking spots where these eggs were lurking and waiting in the short times the treatment is viable. But your now convinced you have done a great job, coupled to this there will also be some trich in the spots where the eggs are as well as the odd fluke thats wonder in in muc the same way to boot, and if we get really lucky that odd flukes has been reproducing all the time because as you know or should know flukes are hermaphrodites and require NO partner to reproduce and not being a true parasite there are neutrients in that gunge

when considering this kind of thing you have to take the blinkers off and consider the unconsiderable "look for the Gorillas in the mist rather than looking at the mist"

dunc

[sam51]

hi dunc a very good post,and thanks for the info.i guess we can now put the fluke topic to bed,
how about more info on other parasites.all the best sam.