Reviving an old thread that seems to be the closest for my questions. If anybody knows of links to parasite threads that deal with it, please let me know.
I went fishing today at a friends pond that wanted to thin down BG numbers. Got home and started cleaning fish. They were loaded with worms like I have never seen. In the meat, black spots that opened up a worm. I'm describing it, because I don't know the proper name of this worm. No pictures in other threads to help identify it. This got me thinking about the scenario at the pond, and that no RES were caught. At his other pond, there are many RES with no problems of worms/parasites.
1)What's the actual name of this type of worm so I can research it more? (sounds different than what's mentioned above?)
2) How is it that RE stops the cycle--or otherwise, don't they get it? They eat snails, but does that kill it?
3)Does the fish have it for their whole life once it's in them?
