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White spots and flashing. Help please.
Hi, all!
I have noticed in the last couple of days that some of my fish have small white areas on their fins and some have some on their bodies. A couple were flashing at times. My ph is 7.2 ( It is usually 7.6 - 7.8 but we've had a heap of rain this week) Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 I did a part water change. 200ltrs, drained the filter sump and then I added salt to the pond and bought the salinity up to 1%. It is a 2000 litre pond ( including filters) so I added 2 kilos of kiln dried salt, disolved and mixed in pond water. Is this enough salt or should I go to 2%? I have a vegi filter and lily's in the system. I have PP crystals but I have never used it before apart from cleaning stuff and I don't want to compromise the plants, good algae and bugs in my filter and pond system now the weather is getting cooler. Any other suggestions that might help, please? Cheers Bindi. |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
Hi!
I found out it is carp pox.(Ugly stuff!) Because of the lower water temps now. Whew! No real big worry but I will add a little more salt and bring the salinity up to 0.2% for a few days. Cheers Bindi. "Bindi" wrote in message .com... Hi, all! I have noticed in the last couple of days that some of my fish have small white areas on their fins and some have some on their bodies. A couple were flashing at times. My ph is 7.2 ( It is usually 7.6 - 7.8 but we've had a heap of rain this week) Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 I did a part water change. 200ltrs, drained the filter sump and then I added salt to the pond and bought the salinity up to 1%. It is a 2000 litre pond ( including filters) so I added 2 kilos of kiln dried salt, disolved and mixed in pond water. Is this enough salt or should I go to 2%? I have a vegi filter and lily's in the system. I have PP crystals but I have never used it before apart from cleaning stuff and I don't want to compromise the plants, good algae and bugs in my filter and pond system now the weather is getting cooler. Any other suggestions that might help, please? Cheers Bindi. |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
On Sat, 5 May 2007 02:38:02 CST, "Bindi"
wrote: Is this enough salt or should I go to 2%? I have a vegi filter and lily's in the system. I would think the salt cure would be best accomplished with a dip instead of adding more than .1% to the pond with plants. Note the D in the .1% column of the chart at this URL. http://tinyurl.com/2c8gwm Regards, Hal |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
"Hal" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 May 2007 02:38:02 CST, "Bindi" wrote: Is this enough salt or should I go to 2%? I have a vegi filter and lily's in the system. I would think the salt cure would be best accomplished with a dip instead of adding more than .1% to the pond with plants. Note the D in the .1% column of the chart at this URL. http://tinyurl.com/2c8gwm Regards, Hal Hi, Hal! Yep. Sorry. I meant 0.1%. Thank you for the URL. Cheers Bindi. |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
On Sat, 5 May 2007 02:38:02 CST, "Bindi" wrote:
Hi, all! I have noticed in the last couple of days that some of my fish have small white areas on their fins and some have some on their bodies. A couple were flashing at times. My ph is 7.2 ( It is usually 7.6 - 7.8 but we've had a heap of rain this week) Check your KH. This is more important than your pH, it is what keeps your pH stable. In another thread you said you found out it was pox not Ich, so we're talking white spots bigger than salt crystals, right? Usually you won't even see Ich on koi, like you do on goldfish. I believe that means koi do get it, but not as visible? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
They get it, it looks like a bad red rash. Ingrid
On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:14:46 CST, ~ jan wrote: Usually you won't even see Ich on koi, like you do on goldfish. I believe that means koi do get it, but not as visible? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
"~ jan" wrote in message news On Sat, 5 May 2007 02:38:02 CST, "Bindi" wrote: Hi, all! I have noticed in the last couple of days that some of my fish have small white areas on their fins and some have some on their bodies. A couple were flashing at times. My ph is 7.2 ( It is usually 7.6 - 7.8 but we've had a heap of rain this week) Check your KH. This is more important than your pH, it is what keeps your pH stable. Hi, Jan! My KH had dropped from 10d to 6d because of all the rain. ( 115mm! ) just over 4 inches in 2 days. I did a part water change to try to bring it back up a bit before I salted. I don't know the salt content of my water so I only salted to 1kg per 1000ltrs to be safe. 0.1 I only have bore water here and it is a little hard but fairly stable. In another thread you said you found out it was pox not Ich, so we're talking white spots bigger than salt crystals, right? Yep. They are more like long white bumps and mainly on the tail fins with just the odd one on the dorsal fins. It is affecting mainly 2 goldfish but some others have got the odd one. The water temp has dropped but I don't know how much exactly yet. I have got a thermometer coming in the mail soon. Usually you won't even see Ich on koi, like you do on goldfish. I believe that means koi do get it, but not as visible? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us Thank you, Jan! Cheers Bindi. |
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White spots and flashing. Help please.
On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:14:46 CST, ~ jan wrote:
Usually you won't even see Ich on koi, like you do on goldfish. I believe that means koi do get it, but not as visible? ~ jan On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:20:29 CST, wrote: They get it, it looks like a bad red rash. Ingrid Good to know. Tx, ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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