I'm sorry to keep droning on about this twirling fish of mine, but I'm
really mystified. To recap....

I found it swimming in a corkscrew manner, rotating about its axis as it
swam. Took advice from folk here and gave it a salt dunk
Returned it to pond, fish normal for 2 days, then started twirling again
Another salt dunk, and normal swimming for about two weeks.
Then when I came home last night about 11pm it was twirling vigorously
But this lunchtime is lurking quietly just like all the others.

Is it just his little mannerism? Or does he have something the others might
catch??

bemused
cheers
Jon

worth finding out about, thanks very much, will do


Have you checked at www.koivet.com? When I had twirlers it was caused by,
as far as we could tell... gillmites and the bacteria that causes ulcers.
Dr. Johnson sent me a box of stuff to treat the whole pond. I haven't had
a
twirler since. We started with several PP treatments, a large water
change
and Koizyme to wipe out the ulcer bacteria. I'm not diagnosing your fish,
just telling you how we treated the problem.

McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
"WORK HARDER, millions in Welfare depend on you."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

worth finding out about, thanks very much, will do


Have you checked at www.koivet.com? When I had twirlers it was caused by,
as far as we could tell... gillmites and the bacteria that causes ulcers.
Dr. Johnson sent me a box of stuff to treat the whole pond. I haven't had
a
twirler since. We started with several PP treatments, a large water
change
and Koizyme to wipe out the ulcer bacteria. I'm not diagnosing your fish,
just telling you how we treated the problem.

McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
"WORK HARDER, millions in Welfare depend on you."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:13:01 -0000, Oxymel of Squill wrote:

worth finding out about, thanks very much, will do

Have you thought about asking a vet? I have a list of vets in the UK
who treat fish and can email you the details of one if you let me know
where you are in the UK, they are listed by county.

Our vet doesn't know anything about fish but she spoke to one in
Cheshire who approved the antibiotic I wanted to use and the dosage
when we had a systemic bacterial infection last year.

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