Flukes In Aquarium Fish. Flukes do TONS of damage to goldfish by chewing away at their slime coat to suck the fishs blood. Cestodes or tapeworms are internal parasites which affect a wide variety of fish species including carp.
Confirmation of flukes can be obtained via a freshwater dip. After 3-5 minutes the fluke will become opaque and dislodge from the fish. Flukes will if left untreated kill the fish by destroying its gills.
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Often the skin gets small red dots what looks almost like a pink cast to it. Flukes are a type of parasite with the broad group of gyrodactylus parasites. You can either bathe the sick fish in a potassium permanganate solution 10mg per litre water for about 20-30 minutes or treat the entire holding tank. The most common kind affecting pet fish are the Dactylogyrus and Gyrodactylus species.
