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Hi All I've had my tap and pond water tested at my local water board's laboratory and am a bit confused by the results! :? The results I have are: Ammonium as NH4 (mg/l) Tap = <0.04 Pond = 0.14 Nitrite as NO2 (mg/l) Tap = <0.008 Pond = 0.073 Chloride as Cl (mg/l) Tap = 33 Pond = >150 Total reactive ...

Hi Dunc

Good luck for tomorrow mate, (assuming she hasn't been allowed to postpone it ).

Hope all goes well and you finally get closure on all the crap you've had to deal with - and you can start concentrating on the good things in life again.

Cheers

Bob

Hi All Just a quick update. Completed the 5 days feed with food soaked in ABs from Duncan towards the end of last week. The fins, particularly on the Kohaku and Goshiki I photographed do look better than they did, though still not right. Also, several of my other koi still have slightly pink/stresed...

Hi Bob You can only take on so much DIY at a time mate, and a house move will undoubtedly create plenty of it! :roll: Just remember you're only "taking a break" and spend some time thinking about what you really want from the hobby when you do come back to it - coz we all know you will. :w...

Hi Sam That sounds reasonable mate. :wink: Now you have sufficient information to believe in this system, would you care to share the questions you asked and the answers you got on here so that we can all learn from it please? :D Maybe you could paste it on our club site too so that our members can ...

Sam, I've got your PM, your list of questions and the suggestion that I should answer them here so that everyone else can see is a good idea The answers are no good if we don't know what the questions are in the first place! :roll: Don't understand why questions are asked privately via PM with a su...

looks like a bacteria problem.could be something to do with your high ammonia and nitrite. Hi Sam As I said when we spoke yesterday, the Ammonia and Nitrite are sorted - and have been for some weeks. The readings for both are exactly the same in the pond as they are for my tap water and the Nitrate...

Hi Guys Took some photos of a couple of tail fins - seem to be thickening up as well as getting redder! :( First two are a 50-55cm kohaku and the second two are goshiki that's probably close to 60cm - just examples, but typical of the signs on quite a few koi now! :cry: :cry: :cry: http://i33.photob...

Hi Dunc Several koi's fins reddened even more last night and I suspect it's a bacterial problem based on the fact that an 80% water change to reduce the salt level appears, if anything, to have made matters worse - maybe the salt was holding things back a bit? Anyway, I started with a CT treatment (...

Hi Dunc Thanks for the advice and offer of the AB but, TBH, I haven't got a clue which koi the faeces came from so can't isolate it and be sure other fish don't get to the food first or make sure it gets the correct dose! Presumably that would also create a risk of the Hexamita developing an immunit...

Hi Dunc

Thanks for the info. I'll try to get some clearer photos/videos. Will they need to be 400x mag for hexamita or will they be clear enough at 100x? The scope is clear enough, but the usb camera is not the best - and gets worse at higher magnifications!

Cheers

Bob

Has no one got any thoughts or ideass of what this could be? :o :( Currently doing an 80% water change to reduce the salinity just in case I need to use a treatment that won't go with salt! Any comments welcome - even if it's only suggestions of what other tests I can do or avenues I can investigate...

Hi Syd Not had time to get to this until now, so I thought I'd reply before reading your thoughts! :) I think koi must feel fear simply because they will swim away as soon as they are spooked - simply because their natural defence is flight rather than fight! Do they feel pain is not quite so simple...

Hi All My koi have not been 100% since I rebuilt my pond and I've identified several problems over recent months that I've dealt with - or at least thought I had!!! :roll: I've had persistent nitrite problems, but my water quality has improved lately. A couple of moths ago I had flukes and treated s...

Just looking at the new JKC website and can't believe how nature has produced a koi with an almost mirrored image pattern on each side - but in a different colours!

http://koi.japanese-koi.co.uk/koiforsal ... 06/showa-4

Cheers

Bob