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adding new Koi
Hi bk, I'm a certified KHA (Koi Health Advisor) thru the AKCA www.akca.org
just to give you some back ground on where my advice is coming from. Sorry about your "slap in the face" submersion to koi keeping. This is the article you should read regarding the why's and how's to quarantining: http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/...t%20 Articles That said, what to do now? The koi that died may have died from shock. Since you didn't know to quarantine, you probably didn't know that sudden changes in pH & temperature could kill a fish. Or that taking a bagged fish, and letting the bag sit in the pond, to adjust to the temp, isn't good enough, perhaps you added pond water to the bag? This can be deadly if the fish was bagged for longer than 30-60 minutes. So if the fish was weak to begin with..... As far as the flashing fish, it could be flashing due to the different water, though I bet it does have something on it. Regarding salt, Morton's 99.9% water softener salt is fine. This is to be added slowly, and not to your filter, or skimmer where it feeds direct into the filter. The killing ratio with salt is measured in % not pounds, usually, but not always, 0.3% will kill most things, but 0.1% will sometimes help the fish fight off the problem on it's own. The measurement is 13oz salt to every 100 gallons of water. Do you know exactly how many gallons you have? This is important when dealing with medications. Most people, me included, have over estimated their gallons using the DXWXLX7.48 = gallons method. Click2Roark.com has a calculator to help one figure out gallons by using salt. So this might be a good time to check for sure. If you decide to use salt divide the maximum amount up by 3 to 5 and add over that many days. Otherwise you'll affect your filter and have water quality problems besides fish health problems, and water quality is far more important than a few parasites on a fish. That's not to say what you did was okay, as there are worst things out there than parasites. ~ jan See my ponds and filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:09:34 GMT, "bk" wrote: 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? |
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