Treating Ichthyobodo A.K.A. Costia
Lately I have been seeing a lot of concern for the disease/pathogen Costia. Because of this, I wanted to write a blog post about it that others could reference. Now I just want to make it perfecty clear I am not a vet, or a fish doctor, or have any prior background in the medical field, nor do I claim to know everything about everything, but, I do study Fish Medicine as a sub-hobby in addition to keeping fish as my main hobby. Everything you read in this post is based off of research I have done in Medical Texts, online reputable resources, and personal experience. Some of the information might be useful to you, and I hope that it is. Also, I hope I do not come off sounding like a complete idiot, I have a lot of thoughts and sometimes my mind trails off, so I did add a TL;DR section below. LOL. Enjoy! Costia is a fish disease caused by an organism in the genus Ichthyobodo/Ichthyobodisais AKA Costia/Costiasis. This parasite can only be seen using a scrape and scope with eithe