Judi,

Ich doesn't present on koi like goldfish usually. On goldfish it will look
like grains of salt, but koi don't aways show this. If the white spots are
bigger than a grain, you've got something else going on. The safest thing
you can treat with is salt, regardless, get it up to 0.3%. You need to be
watching your water chemistry. I highly suggest you use that gift
certificate on test kits as others have suggested. I know we've already
covered how to add & use the salt in other threads for you.

If indeed you need other medications, there are better ones out there that
don't kill the bio-filter, that PetsMart doesn't carry. ~ jan

On 20 Feb 2004 05:38:14 GMT, (Judi9000) wrote:

At the end of last summer I bought some baby koi out of the feeder tanks at Pet
Smart. Along with the koi came lots of parasites(ich, anchor worms, etc.). I
brought the fish inside for about 3 wks. until it looked like the parasites
were gone. They were fine all winter until last week when the temperatures
rose. (I'm in Bakersfield, CA). Anyway, there are already new signs of ich!
Since I've been reading posts on this site regarding salt, the use of salt and
parasites, I'm not really sure what to do now. Do I use meds with salt? Will
salt really kill ich? Should I start treating now or wait until it's warmer?
Should I net the fish with spots and give them salt dips? Thanks for your help.
Judi

FYI-When I told the manager at Pet Smart what happened she GAVE me over a
hundred dollars in medication, loaned me a hundred gal tank, and gave me a
hundred dollar gift card to replace the dead guys! I'm sure now that it doesn't
hurt to ask. I've also learned a hard lesson!

~ jan