Clownfish skin scrape, any diseases?

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Do you see any thing worry some in these microscope pictures?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Jay Hemdal do you see anything? And if you don't see anything what power should I look at for a bacterial infection or the flukes?
 
Do you see any thing worry some in these microscope pictures?

1.
IMG_20210818_155937038_HDR.jpg

1(1).
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2.
IMG_20210818_155921096_HDR.jpg

2(1).
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3.
IMG_20210818_160027241_HDR.jpg

3(1).
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4.
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4(1).
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Jay Hemdal do you see anything? And if you don't see anything what power should I look at for a bacterial infection or the flukes?
You won't see bacteria unless you are at 1000x with a phase contract microscope.

Did you see anything moving? For me, that is what I key in on. Like in the second image - those faint brown spots are likely just chromatophores, but if they were moving, I would be suspicious.

Third/fourth image are either strands of fabric or algae.

Five and six have those two odd golden inclusions - if they were moving I'd be worried, else I don't know what they are.

Last image is likely just mucus cells.

Jay
 
You won't see bacteria unless you are at 1000x with a phase contract microscope.

Did you see anything moving? For me, that is what I key in on. Like in the second image - those faint brown spots are likely just chromatophores, but if they were moving, I would be suspicious.

Third/fourth image are either strands of fabric or algae.

Five and six have those two odd golden inclusions - if they were moving I'd be worried, else I don't know what they are.

Last image is likely just mucus cells.

Jay
I can go up to 2000 on my microscope btw, just a light microscope. And no I didn't see anything moving. Thanks for the reply. I still see a little haze on the fish. Idk what to do, I still have 1 more dose of prazi, and I put in 2 treatments of Kanaplex.
 
I can go up to 2000 on my microscope btw, just a light microscope. And no I didn't see anything moving.
I've never been able to determine anything regarding bacteria with a microscope, I don't even bother going above 150x any more. I can't think of any external parasite that won't move in some fashion, even ich trophonts will sort of tumble and ooze. I have really bad "eye floaters" so I rely on movement 100% - if I don't see movement, I call it good.

Jay
 
I've never been able to determine anything regarding bacteria with a microscope, I don't even bother going above 150x any more. I can't think of any external parasite that won't move in some fashion, even ich trophonts will sort of tumble and ooze. I have really bad "eye floaters" so I rely on movement 100% - if I don't see movement, I call it good.

Jay
I got them eye floaters too but gets worse with more power.
 
@vetteguy53081 this was a 2nd skin scrape of the clownfish, because I felt I didn't get a good one on the other post but I am concerned with the first image...clownfish scale?
 

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