Simply Koi and More Koi

Hi I am seeing on a few forums that Fluke-M does not seem to be working any more,and there are rumors that an ingredient has been removed/changed.This is even when people have used acetone to dissolve it,It might be me going mad (nothing surprising there I hear you say)BUT if you work out how much F...

I have to agree you have done a good job there probably the most difficult place to treat dermo,I have treated it on the gill plate much easier to do.

Hi I can remember a few years ago Duncan telling me no matter how good someone is at treating Koi if the koi has lost the will to live regardless of what we do it wont survive.

Your not wrong there Duncan

I always find it amazing how clever nature is sometimes complex and other times very simple but nearly always perfect.

I cant think of a better way to describe this so bear with me is it like a fulcrum when one end is open the other is shut sort of like a beam engine working on a central pivot,I bet I am miles off track now

Does this bone flex or move to keep the gill covers held tight to the body and as the other bones etc move it allows them to open but then flexes back to its original position to close the gill cover tight again.Probably got it arse about face

Hi Chris I have never done stitches but having seen what you have done here having been shown by Duncan,I think if it came to it I would now have a go.Thanks for sharing,looking good now.

Hi Greg I would scrape three more koi to get a better idea of what is going on in the pond,also from the symptoms you describe it sounds like Costia.

Thats fine with me Boss

This is very thought provoking I have been a fisherman for many years (not so much in the last 4 years)when trout fishing I use a priest not had any come round again,when I euthanize a Koi I use phenoxytol I leave it in there over night and give it a visit from the priest in the morning just to make...

Hi this was posted on another forum and I have permission to use the photos,this is the worst case of carp pox on a Koi's mouth I have ever seen.

Spot on Gazza this is what I have been told when using a protein skimmer that it will also strip the meds a well as the protein

Hi Gazza the first thing I do is test my water it never really alters but better to know it is right.I turn off my protein skimmer but that is about it I turn it on later so some meds run through but I don't want it removing any treatment before it has done it's job.

Hi I have got a koi with this and have treated it three times very aggressively as described in Dunc's book but it has always returned,I have had the koi for five years and it has had this for four years no other koi have contracted it yet