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Duncan just dont go on that site, nothing on it worth while anyway..... let them sink into their own sess pit of crap and ignore them, what you dont read cant hurt......do bears shit in the forest if no one sees them.......... dont give it all up, most of us truely appreeciate what you are trying to...

from the photo it looks more like a deformity than a health issue, better picture would really help.

Thanks for all the sympathy guys and thanks for the interest. This was my first go at autopsy and I made a few silly errors like not using bone cutters to cut through the ribs and using a scalpel rather than fingers to separate some of the organs. Overall it was a good experience although for some p...

Looked at the swim bladder and noticed the marked difference in colour and the flabby texture of the lower chamber http://www.koivista.com/pics2011/StuW100743_DSC01143.JPG As I removed the other organs from around the swim bladder I noticed what looked like a hole, on further investigation this was ...

Got home tonight to find my Sakuma Kohaku belly up in the Q/T tank. It had been a bit off colour sitting on the bottom of the pond and then put in Q/T for the last 2 days. Got home and this is what I found http://www.koivista.com/pics2011/StuW100735_DSC01132.JPG Could not believe the amount of damag...

Hi Duncan, think its got worse since this pic was taken for a grow and show so is now a lot yellower than the pic shows. Looks great in that pic though, I nearly voted for it but after a lot of debate between 3 of them, chose 14 cos it was so unique and the shirojo was just stunning

Hi Mark from my experience (and I am sure I will be corrected by people who have much more knowledge than me) I would not be expecting to see much visible healing at this stage, that looks like a pretty deep infection and will take weeks to begin to really heal so it is a long slog rather than a spr...

also you run the risk of the parasites building up resistance to said chemicals (as I think Duncan has already said) so the few you miss each time you do a prophylactic treatment would be more and more immune then when they do have a population explosion what are you going to do then??

does it control the buccal valve and thus help in the process of drawing in fresh water and opening the gill plates at the same time acting something like a cam shaft?

Are the bones of the lower jaw pivoting to close the gills as the fish is about to eat?
Seems from the diagram that they are all pivoting in sequence as the mouth opens.
Probably totally wrong, as usual

Stuart

hi Chris I thought it was part of the jaw. Think I even posted it on the other thread.

Big blobs look like air bubbles. If costia I would expect the black dots to be zooming everywhere. Do more scrapes.
Flukes will give the symptoms you have described as I saw recently on Emmaandaj's koi

Could you not remove all the membrane infected and leave the bony rays and then try to encourage re generation of the tail??
Dont know if this is feasable.

Could you not remove all the membrane infected and leave the bony rays and then try to encourage re generation of the tail??
Dont know if this is feasable.

well thats got me thinking...I will be putting a tape measure in my medicine box for all those pond visits, for some reason I just never thought of it till now