Fish are acting strange.

[420benz]

Today's strange activity. They haven't moved all day.

 

[JamieB]

Tests all looked fine, btw, no need to do the high ph unless the regular one maxes out. To treat for parasites, you first need to identify what kind you have. I would start off by adding air pumps, and air stones, to add extra oxygen. Set up your quarantine tank, or a large tote, fill with pond water. Gentley catch a fish, put it in, look it over. You are looking for any sores, missing scales, red on fins, tail, or gills. Any weird blobs, worms hanging on them. If you can’t find anything on that fish, look at the others. We don’t have enough information at this time to say you have any particular problem other than one fish died, which could have been due to a congenital defect.

 

[420benz]

Thanks

 

[420benz]

This doesn't look good.

 

[j.w]

Maybe check this out and see if anything matches up? https://nextdaykoi.com/goldfish-facts/comprehensive-guide-to-goldfish-diseases/

 

[420benz]

So the fish have Icy. Can I treat the intire pond or only the sick fish? The problem is I don't realy know which ones have been exposed.

 

[420benz]

That's Ich

 

[j.w]

I don't know for sure if it is ick that's why I wanted someone else who knows more about fish diseases to pop in on this. In your other thread you started someone posted it looks like fungus. Ick looks like this below:

Fish w/fungus below:

 

[420benz]

I googled the cure for Ich and it said to add pond salt to the pond??

 

[j.w]

Does it look like ick to you? You could try the salt but if you have any plants it will prolly kill them. Or you could take the fish out of the pond and put them in a small pool to treat instead but then I think the pond will still be infected unless you let it stay fishless for awhile. Not sure about all this.

 

[Mmathis]

@420benz please take a look at this video. There is a section devoted to ick. From what I understand, ick isn’t something you treat once and it’s over. If this is indeed ick, the entire pond needs to be treated. Again, as someone else suggested, you might want to post this on KOIPHEN.COM — link below. They have an excellent topic devoted to diseases and illnesses. Rather than guess about this, if it was me, I would consult with the experts. It does no good at all to blindly treat a problem that you’re just guessing about!

An interesting video regarding parasite ID

What I especially found interesting is that the narrator repeated the fact that a healthy, non-stressed fish, living with good water conditions will normally be able to build defenses against diseases. IOW, these critters are in your water and on your fish — they are present whether we like it...

www.gardenpondforum.com

Emergency & Health Issues

Emergency aid for sick fish and sick ponds.

www.koiphen.com

 

[420benz]

Great Video.

 

[JamieB]

Ick has a three stage cycle, and temperatures affect how fast they move through it. Which means you’ll need to set up a qt tank where it can be heated, you want temps in the 70s or better to speed up the cycle. Add pond water, a filter, air stones, and the fish, then slowly get the temp up. Measure how many gallons it has, you’ll need that for dosing the meds. As for the pond, you’ll want to remove any invertebrates you have before treatment, as most treatments are copper based and thus toxic to them. Pull any plants, and then you have the option of large doses of ick treatment, or trying other things. But I would for sure treat the fish with proven medicine, such as rapid cure ick gone. Or if this is a fungus, with which ever anti fungal you find suitable for use.
As for the pond, I would treat what water is in it, then replace all that water with fresh, and give the fish more time in the qt tank than their medication requires while the pond water matures a bit.