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Final update I hope :) She's a lot better now but definitely not a prime specimen :) Still mainly swims in (large) circles to the right and her body looks a little bit asymmetrical; she definitely seems a bit 'clumsy' so she'll bump up against things sometimes. Buoyancy is pretty good although she d...

Hi We recently did a full pond clean as part of a serious upgrade to the filters and fitting a retro-BD. Everything is looking good but we noticed some flashing and found we have skin flukes (100% confident from scrapes - they don't have the 4 'eye dots') We did a treatment at 1g/89gallon dissolved ...

So I thought I'd post an update ... it's a month on and things are not looking too bad but there's more healing to happen. Where we left it she had buoyancy and orientation problems : she had a nose-down attitude and couldn't stay upright. She always settled on to her right side and she permanently ...

Sorry to hear about the outcome Amanda - it's good to hear what happened and how you treated her.

Thanks for the suggestion - it makes sense. However we haven't been able to bring the QT online yet. The focus has been on getting the main pond filter area sorted whilst the weather lets us dig and lay concrete. That means that there's zero chance of seeing anything pass through :/ We actually took...

Thought I'd post an update although it's not good news. She's lost a lot of orientation control now. She's "swimming" sideways with her right side down almost all the time. A fair amount of the time she's floating at the surface or on the bottom and she has vertical orientation issues too....

So Lee came around and did a health-check on the pond and everything was spot on from a water quality PoV. Oxygen was good too (and we measured first thing in the morning). He scraped 4 fish and found just 3 costia overall; no other parasites and no signs of any problems on any other fish. He said t...

Thank you Duncan That's very informative. I'll see if I can do anything to boost the aeration of the pond. As it happens I took a video of him breathing before we sedated him and I've uploaded it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlt33kzosE8&feature=youtu.be Also, as it happens, I got given ...

So the sedation went well but we found nothing :( We used 15 drops of clove oil in 3 gallons of water and used Duncan's "support him using one hand" advice to check he was out. It didn't take long - probably only a couple of minutes. (Aside - he did come round a bit whilst we were examinin...

Thanks Manky It seems clove oil is a safe way to do sedation. I found this: http://www.pondkoi.com/forum/index.php?topic=1600.0 Which seems to be quite detailed. Please yell if you have any reservations. We have a holding/capture pen in the main pond which we just transferred him to. One thing we no...

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We had considered sedation but were hoping to get some advice before just jumping in. If we don't hear anything else we'll try that next.

We have some clove oil and have just ordered some 2-Phenoxyethanol from Duncan - not sure which is best/safest though.

Update: He's definitely swimming with a bit of a head-down position.
He'll swim quite actively but when he stops momentum carries him forward in a head-down attitude.

Hi Summary : Our largest fish (18") hasn't been visibly eating pellets for a while (1-2 weeks). He's not closing his mouth fully. http://www.merproject.org/~lbt/pics/koi/skullface.jpg We have a fair amount of plants in the pond and he has eaten them and algae from the walls in the past so we've...

I (well we) are also new to the hobby but I recently met Tony (who's now making the Dracodrum) and he recommended Duncan's book (great resource btw) and I've been reading through various posts and articles in an attempt to find out how much I don't know. IMHO it'd be a shame for the forum to go read...