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Help Again Please-You Guys Are Awesome!
on koi it looks like a bad red rash and their fins are clamped. salt may work, but
the only other way to treat this right now unless you can bring em inside. PP can work on other stuff outside in the pond. I see some oodinium on my koi, but it disappears quickly when the temp got up to 55oF. what is the temp of your pond water? ingrid ~ jan JJsPond.us wrote: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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