En la empresa exportadora de peces ornamentales ACUATRADE SAC, de la Región Loreto, la mortandad interna era de hasta 12%, detectándose que tales pérdidas obedecían a la inconstante calidad de agua, la cual proviene del sub suelo y es tratada con floculación diariamente luego de extraerla. El uso de humedales artificiales para reciclar y reusar las aguas efluentes de los peces en acopio, redujo drásticamente la tasa de mortandad y el uso de agua del subsuelo.

In Acuatrade SAC, tropical fish export company in the Loreto Region, the mortality rate was up to 12%, it was detected that such loses were due to the un constant water quality, this is well water and is treated every day with flocculation immediately after be extracted. The use of artificial wetlands for reuse and recycling of the effluent waters from the tropical fish facility reduced drastically the mortality rate and the use of well water

Platynematichthys notatus (Jardine, 1841), popularly known as "lince cat" stands out for being a very popular species in the ornamental fish market, being exported to different parts of the world. Despite its economic importance, the existing information on helminths that parasitize this species is very scarce. In this sense, the present study identified monogenoids that parasitize the gills of this fish. The gills of ten specimens of P. notatus from the commercial aquarium AQUATRADE SAC, placed in Iquitos-Peru were analyzed. After taxonomic identification, Boegeriella conica Mendoza-Palmero, Mendoza-Franco, Acosta & Scholz, 2019 was reported as the species that parasitizes the gills of P. notatus. The main morphological characteristics of the species are: a coiled tubular male copulatory organ forming approximately 2 1/2 rings, an accessory piece of a sigmoid shape, bars with anteri...