Koi Diseases

There are many kinds of diseases in koi. Its very important to detect Disease as soon as possible, and apply proper treatment.

How to find diseases in their early stages

Its really very simple, as soon as you notice something unusual in the way your koi is acting, you have a problem. it could be the way its swimming, eating or not eating, breathing, swollen body, sores or lifted scales, parasites you can see, or red marks, fin or tail marks. A diseased koi will leave the group, note any changes in the body surface of the koi, eyes bulging, skin infections weeping sores. 

 You need to watch your koi from the time you first get them and take note of what is normal behaviors in each one so you can recognize abnormal behavior, most koi keepers do this when feeding.

 Diseased Koi  will stay in the bottom of the Pond with their pectoral fins open, they breathe hard, lose their appetite and their excrement s become abnormal, Gills are often affected when the koi is diseased

Treatments

There are many different treatments oral administration, Medicated Bath, applications, injections and in some case a vet may do an operation. 

• Medicines are added to the food , when koi suffer  lesions and bacterial diseases
• A Medicated bath is given to exterminate parasites and bacterially caused diseases. At the Windsor Fish Hatchery we sell a product you treat the whole pond with, its very effective, it protects fish against disease Click the link to buy this product.
• Applications are used for external wounds, Mercurochrome, tincture of iodine wounds must be completely cleaned before application.
• Injections of sulfa drugs and antibiotics

Gill Rot

This is a common disease,for all age koi. It often occurs at high temperature above  20 degrees Centigrade, but can occur below this temperature. the disease advances rapidly. If you open the gill, you will find red gill filaments turns grey or muddy, or some of them are broken. The germ is columnaris. Its treatment is oral administration of sulfa drugs or antibiotic substances or a medicated bath antiseptic wash 1000ml.

Anchor Worm Disease

Red swellings appear under the scales. When the tip of a swelling is pulled , a worm with an anchor-shaped top comes out. The worms stick to fins, mouths and the hypoderm. Sometimes fifty or sixty worms live on a Fish and weaken it to death. These parasites can be treated. We sell a product at the hatchery that will treat this problem. click to purchase product

Fish lice Disease

A koi with fish lice will swim a with jerky movements scrubs itself along the sides of the pond or rocks or swims along the walls of the pond. Being examined closely, it has worms about 5 millimeter long and 3 millimeter wide often on fins. They make the fish weak and cause some other diseases of which it dies. treatment parasite control

When treating any disease and using treatments, you should follow up with live bacteria to reestablish a healthy growth of bacteria back into the pond or tank. In the case of a Aquarium you should use bottled live bacteria and tonic in the case of a pond you should use pond block

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