As you know here in Plymouth weve been having extremes in temperature this year,as such this year has seen our pond at its hottest ever with 24.8c at its highest.
Then out of the blue weve had hot, cold, hot cold repeatedly in quick sucsesion plus thanx to tropical storm bertha huge amounts of rain which have been adding to the stress of our koi
Its only after Bertha that we started to see signs of parasites on our koi .
So out came the microscope and we caught Tiny one of our oldest koi at 27 years old it was Tiny who originally tipped us the nod that things werent quite right and when we went out to do the scrape it was tiny we caught to scrape, you cold say he was typhoid Mary so to speak (remember how I said many threads ago to learn to read your fish) ?
Costia White spot and skin flukes came up on the microscope though not in equal numbers I was mortified at the results
Whitespot was the agressor on our slide it being seen in high numbers but the others could quite easily have taken advantage due to the weakend state had I not noticed something wrong.
Three treatments of Formalin at 75 ml and Malachite at 60ml combined should clear the lot but it will be a protracted battle to bag em all
How it all works , well the formalin strips the mucus allowing the adults to be killed off whilst the combined treatment takes care of the juveniles but then we have to make sure the next generation are knocked out in its juvelile form and then as a final treatment do it again each with a five day gap between treatments which should return things to normal
How can a couple who help out with health issues have so many things in the pond at once ?..simply because all ponds and fish have parasites but at the best of times when they arent stressed out the numbers are down and they are kept in check, its only when something happens to upset the ballance that they start to get out of control.
So if you have been having the types of weather weve been having of late keep a very close eye on your fish if you see anything untowards and you know how to do a scrape plus have a microscope do the right thing take that scrape it may just save a life
Dave
Then out of the blue weve had hot, cold, hot cold repeatedly in quick sucsesion plus thanx to tropical storm bertha huge amounts of rain which have been adding to the stress of our koi
Its only after Bertha that we started to see signs of parasites on our koi .
So out came the microscope and we caught Tiny one of our oldest koi at 27 years old it was Tiny who originally tipped us the nod that things werent quite right and when we went out to do the scrape it was tiny we caught to scrape, you cold say he was typhoid Mary so to speak (remember how I said many threads ago to learn to read your fish) ?
Costia White spot and skin flukes came up on the microscope though not in equal numbers I was mortified at the results
Whitespot was the agressor on our slide it being seen in high numbers but the others could quite easily have taken advantage due to the weakend state had I not noticed something wrong.
Three treatments of Formalin at 75 ml and Malachite at 60ml combined should clear the lot but it will be a protracted battle to bag em all
How it all works , well the formalin strips the mucus allowing the adults to be killed off whilst the combined treatment takes care of the juveniles but then we have to make sure the next generation are knocked out in its juvelile form and then as a final treatment do it again each with a five day gap between treatments which should return things to normal
How can a couple who help out with health issues have so many things in the pond at once ?..simply because all ponds and fish have parasites but at the best of times when they arent stressed out the numbers are down and they are kept in check, its only when something happens to upset the ballance that they start to get out of control.
So if you have been having the types of weather weve been having of late keep a very close eye on your fish if you see anything untowards and you know how to do a scrape plus have a microscope do the right thing take that scrape it may just save a life
Dave