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Hi Kev, No problem - I forgot to mention that you should turn off your UV during treatment and ideally your skimmer and avoid doing water changes or reduce water changes to the absolute minimum during treatment as the prazi needs to remain at a certain concentration for a certain period in the pond ...

Hi Kev, I recently purchased some prazi from Duncan for a 4,400 gal pond and he advised a dose of 44grms per treatment so I would assume you would need 21 grms. If they are skin flukes just one treatment of 21grms will do the trick - if they are gill flukes it is 2 treatments of 21 grms each time wi...

Thanks Duncan - I will keep you posted on the outcome of the treatment.

Best wishes

Paul

Hi Manky, Thanks for this - I had sent Duncan a PM to which I had attached a number of photographs of some parasites I identified on one of my fish this morning which was basically in a state of lethargy and which sadly died earlier today. On the scrape I spotted a number of parasites and am despera...

Hi Everyone, As a recent new member of the forum, I have tried to PM another member earlier today via my User Control Panel. I notice that both PM s have remained in my Outbox and have not gone into 'Sent Items'. Does that mean they have not been sent to my desired recipient please and if so how can...

Hi Dunc, Yes - in the article I read from yourself on salt, it gave a link at the end to your diminished returns article - absolutely amazing those figures!! I have had some problems in the past coming out of winter with fish looking a bid red raw on their undersides and thought I would leave the sa...

Hi Everyone, Immediately following a PP treatment on my pond almost 4 weeks ago, my filter appeared to have been hit as I had a rise in Nitrite and I added salt to 0.3% to counteract the effect on the fish whilst my filter recovered. Readings this week are indicating that the filter is recovering, (...

Hi Duncan, Sorry to be a bit thick on this one but I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'directly across the flank'? Do you mean to insert the needle at a 90% angle to the side of the fish as if you were aiming to come our at the same point on the other side of the fish? Would you have any pictures o...

Hi Everyone, I recall reading somewhere in another thread that an antibiotic injection can be given IP into the 'crease' where the pelvic fin muscle joins the body. Could anyone please confirm that is the case and if it is - should the needle be inserted pointing back towards the tail rather than to...

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for your response - your comments/advice are always much appreciated.

Best regards

Paul

Thanks Duncan.

Best regards

Paul

Hi Ladies and Gents,

I have some 99.9% Silver Nitrate powder.

Could someone please advise me as to the strength/concentration of Silver Nitrate to be used on Koi, e.g. against Dermocystidium or fin rot?

Many thanks

Paul

Hi Duncan, What strength of silver nitrate did you use on the chagoi please - is the strength measured in a certain number of grammes of silver nitrate per litre of distilled water? I have seen silver nitrate reagent powder for sale - is that the same thing that you used mixed with distilled water? ...

Hi Duncan, Took another PH reading at 11.15am this morning and it was 7.8. which is more like what one would expect and a pleasingly small range difference from the reading of 8.0 at 11.15pm the previous night. Seems that I may well have not properly cleaned and prepared my new PH meter when taking ...

Hi Duncan, I have taken another PH reading tonight at 11.15pm and it was 8.0 - the same as at 9.15pm last night. I will take another at around 11am in the morning and will post both readings then. The readings I posted earlier were the right way around and that's what got me flummoxed in that they s...