Oh thats really good thinking there CArol. Push off yur sick or
diseased fish and put it in a farm pond out of sight out of mind and
let who ever has the farm pond worry about their fish coming down
with what ever the koi had if its communicable. At a minimum it should
have been euthanized and not dumped in another body of water, but
better yet, just like you told me, if you can not afford to take care
of your fish properly you should not have any..........you do
remember that statement don't you? Probably not, your suffering from
yet another bout of selective memory recall when things don't agree
with you. Yet your tract record of erroneous and bad advice predeeds
you as usual.

Looking at those pics my "Guess" is not worth a darn as I really d
not have a clue. None of my info from the university of Florida eveh
has anyhting like this listed, however its possible its an ulcer.
Short of finding a bona fide answer, I would dab it with some
potassium permanganate paste..Only do this one time, then apply some
panalog or other antibiotic ointment, and cover it with denture
powder. Yea sounds weird but if its an ulcer it will fix it. Let me
send the pics to a "fish doc" I know here locally and see what he
says.




On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:47:39 -0600, Zëbulon
wrote:


"scs0" wrote in message
egroups.com...

Any ideas on what's going on? If so, what do I do about it?
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Check this site:

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/...phocystis.html

I had a beautiful deep yellow female diamond-scale butterfly koi with this
disease. It looked exactly like what your fish has. She would appear cured
at times but it always came back. She went to a farm stock pond rather than
keep her with the other fish and possibly infect them.



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!