How large of a quarentine setup is required?
I've gone a limited yard. I couldn't do more thatn say a 20 gallon platic
tub or tank.
I assume water for quarantine should be from the pond?
"RichToyBox" wrote in message
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Get the salt at Home Depot or Lowes. The plain 99% pure water softener
salt, not the one with corrosion inhibitors or whatever. It comes in a 40
pound bag and is just a few dollars. For your size pond, I would use one
bag, split over two or three doses. Flashing generally means flukes and
salt is only effective with flukes about 1/3 of the time. Better would be
Praziquantel, or SupaVerm. Both of these are specific to the flat worms,
of
which the flukes are one of.

The quarantine should have been performed for the new fish before they
were
introduced to the existing pond and fish. Typical quarantine time is 3 to
6
weeks, and the quarantine facility has to have very good filtration, or
the
fish will not survive. Water quality testing is imperative.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"bk" wrote in message
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#&$% !!!
Where do I get this salt?
It certainly sounds like a ton of salt for my little pond.
1200 gallons at 4/100 is 48 pounds. Man I never expected to have more
slat
ware tanks.

Quarantine:
Should I be removing the rest of the fish or just the sick ones.
How big of a contanter can they survive in during the process?
How long is teh qurantine process.

This does suck. Three years and never the slightest problem.
"DesertPond" wrote in message
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Yep, the ponds been nailed :-(

Quarantine sucks but it's the only way to keep everything safe. 2#
isn't enough (won't kill anything), you need 4#, Use non-iodized,
mineral-free salt only. Dosage is 4 lbs. of salt per 100 gallons of
water add the dose over a day or two. Needs to be left in for at least
21 days. Followed by 50% water change.

Be sure to remove the plants before salting It's best if you can get a
look at what they've got under a microscope.

good luck


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:12:32 GMT, "bk" wrote:

I visited a Koi show at Fairchild Tropical Garden this past Saturday.
I added three fish to a happy pond. Bought two and he gave one for
free.
The largest of the new guys was dead on Tuesday morning and another
is
scratching at the bottom.
The third seems to be getting along. The vender says to add 2# rock
salt/100
gallons of pond. I'm concerned
weather I just contaninated my clean pond environment.