Once again

[mark.r.uk]

Hi all

I've got to the stage were I've had enough!!!

I've had costia, flukes and lost a lot of fish.

I've treated with 0.9 salt to get rid of costia. Fluke M to get rid of flukes..

Done a scrap tonight and once again I've got costia and what looks like Chilodonella,

Salt is down to 0.15

The fish look a lot better and eating well.

What can I use to treat.

Many thanks

Mark

[Duncan]

Mark

please try my ICC treatment this is specifically for stubborn costia, white spot and chillo

salt up again and add this every other day to they have gone at 25ml to every 500 gallons

im getting glowing reports on it in fact one fish fixer is keeping me busy making the stuff he loves it

dunc

www.chemicalfactory.co.uk

[mark.r.uk]

Cheers Duncan

I've just ordered ICC. You advise salting back up,what percentage?

Roughly how many treatments do you recon?

Also what do I need to get onto your blogs section?? Lol

Thanks for your help

Regards

Mark

[Duncan]

salt to 0.6% all feed back says they vanish usually around the forth treatment

dunc

[mark.r.uk]

Hi Duncan.

Thanks for the quick delivery.

I've got 0.6% salt and done first treatment.

Any other tips you can give?

I will be treating every other day, but will do a scrape on the third treatment.

Temp is 24 degs.

When is it best to carry out a water change? And how much?

Sorry for the question but still learning

Regards Mark

[Duncan]

don't do any water changes till the blighters have checked out of the Hotel

dunc

[mark.r.uk]

Hi Duncan

Just to let you know I've still got the little blighters after using all the treatment. The fish are a million times better than what they were, there is a hell of a reduction of them when I carry out scrapes on other fish.

Is it worth ordering some more of the treatment or trying something else

Regards

Mark

[Duncan]

how many treatments did you do?
dunc

[mark.r.uk]

Hi Duncan

I did about 6 treatments then stopped.. then about 2 weeks later I noticed 1 or 2 of my fish hanging again. So carried out a scrape and found costia again.

I must say that are not in the same numbers as before

So last week I finished off the ICC. .

The pond parameters are salt 0.06%, 23 deg. PH 8, Amonnia 0.03

Regards

Mark

[mark.r.uk]

Any advice ??

Regards

Mark

[Duncan]

is that 0.06% or should it be 0.6%?

dunc

[mark.r.uk]

Sorry 0.6%

Mark

[Duncan]

Mark

My thought on this are: You wont have costia on all your fish the parasite does not work that way its opportunist in its nature and it picks on a weak fish other stronger fish wont display the disease

you need to isolate the ones with it and treat them separately when you do this you can start being more aggressive with the disease

dunc

[mark.r.uk]

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Would you suggest putting the fish in quarratine and ramping up the heat to 28deg ?

Also what treatment would you advise

Regards Mark

[mark.r.uk]

The reason why I'm asking is that this year there are many people that I know are having major problems with bacterial and costia .

So its not just me your helping but loads of others as well.

Once again thanks for your help

Regards Mark