Good morning all,
Just looking for a little feedback if anyone has used Dimilin-X? We are new to the pond world and a fellow Koi advocate was over to check out our Koi last week and suspected from their behavior they had fish lice. He suggested we use POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE.
I am a little leery after reading about it, to kill all the algae before winter because we are in Ohio and it is quickly approaching. I want to leave the pond as it is and not mess with that to destroy anything we built up in the last two months. But here is the question, my Koi ended up spawning, and to our surprise we have beautiful babies everywhere! Which is another reason I feel the water must be ok, to have so many babies! Due to the fact that they were so late in Spawning (AUGUST, SEPTEMBER) we quickly realized that these little ones were going to need help, so we opted to bring the babies in for this winter. So I ordered the Dimilin-X and was planning on treating the pond, but I felt that since the babies came from the pond, they may need a treatment too, but I can't find any literature anywhere telling me if it is safe for small fish too? Can anyone provide any info??? Also, just an FYI: we used the same pond water and put it in the 300 gallon stock tank in the basement. We felt since they were thriving in that water, it made sense to use that instead of tap water and starting over building up bacteria. Thanks ~ Molly
Just looking for a little feedback if anyone has used Dimilin-X? We are new to the pond world and a fellow Koi advocate was over to check out our Koi last week and suspected from their behavior they had fish lice. He suggested we use POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE.
I am a little leery after reading about it, to kill all the algae before winter because we are in Ohio and it is quickly approaching. I want to leave the pond as it is and not mess with that to destroy anything we built up in the last two months. But here is the question, my Koi ended up spawning, and to our surprise we have beautiful babies everywhere! Which is another reason I feel the water must be ok, to have so many babies! Due to the fact that they were so late in Spawning (AUGUST, SEPTEMBER) we quickly realized that these little ones were going to need help, so we opted to bring the babies in for this winter. So I ordered the Dimilin-X and was planning on treating the pond, but I felt that since the babies came from the pond, they may need a treatment too, but I can't find any literature anywhere telling me if it is safe for small fish too? Can anyone provide any info??? Also, just an FYI: we used the same pond water and put it in the 300 gallon stock tank in the basement. We felt since they were thriving in that water, it made sense to use that instead of tap water and starting over building up bacteria. Thanks ~ Molly