Yeah I dont like this day much. After thinking things were improving, I actually don't think they are. I can't understand why the fish is still flicking. Water changes are every day, all water tests show nothing! But today he's managed to pull off two big scales and he looks bad. I'm cleaning the qt out hoping it will run just under where the crack is. And if he's still like this tomorrow, I think the best thing would be to put him in there on his own for a bit and add salt. At least it might ease his stress and help his wounds heal. He is still eating, but when I fed them today he started flicking right away and then decided to try and launch himself out the water. Something in there he just really doesn't like. And I can't work out what it is.

I just don't know what else to do. If my pond expert says there are no parasites in there, then what has happened to make this one fish go bonkers?

Lost soul at the moment.

Dawn

Dawn i would give him a salt bath then put him in the qt tank and not add salt to the qt tank yet and see how he gets on.

Thanks for the reply ghost.

I will try that tomorrow if there is no improvement. I'll lay off the food again for a bit even though there has been no indication there has been an ammonia spike. None of the others were flicking yesterday, or acting different. But saw a good few flicking today.

Fingers crossed hey, and thanks so much for the support.

Dawn

Got the salt today and gave him a salt bath, he was quite difficult to catch even though he's stressed.

Used a 3% solution and got him in the bowl, but he started to freak out big time even more, after 10 mins started to roll over on his side. So we had to put him back in the pond. Qt varies too much in Ph, so he's back where he started, probably even more stressed from being caught.

He was swimming around, but now he's still back to flicking himself silly off the sides of the pond. Paul is convinced he's going to die, as he's never seen a white fish so red before. I'm hoping that the salt has at least eased the bad cuts and missing scales.

Fingers crossed hey, all we can do.

I wonder how long it took him to settle in at ACMI?

Dawn

Let's see how he get's on now he's had the salt bath hope he improves we all need some warm weather
keep us up dated

Hey here,

Well, this morning he's eating so fingers crossed hey.... Yeah I agree we all need warm weather. Lots of it, then we can get all the jobs we need to do outside, like fix the Qt and take an old chimney stack down.

Guess it just takes a white koi a long time to settle down, but I should know as my male shiro is the same when we caught him the other year and he had trich, all his blood vessels burst and he looked like he was bleeding. I think that took about 4 weeks to subside. He does the same when you catch him for anything.
I have to say though, when I went over there this morning and he was sat at the other side of the pond you should have seen the speed he swam over to meet me for food, greedy thing.

Fingers crossed for all the new fish....

Speak later,

Dawn

Progress?

I don't know, I'm yet to think positively about this. But this is the first afternoon that the male has eaten. As soon as I went over with the white pot.. (He was still sat at the bottom of the pond mind) he came over straight away and actually started to push my other fish out the way... I can only hope that the salt bath did him some good.

While cleaning my filter, I watched them all very carefully he's swimming a lot slower now, and just in general doesn't seem as erratic, the female as far as I'm concerned likes sucking on the liner, because she does nothing else till you chuck food in and then she scarpers across to gobble as much as she possibly can.

I watched for 30 mins and no flicking!!!!!

This is a first....

Will keep a close eye on them all as per usual. Filling up again with fresh water, through the decholrinator of course.... Heater is on at steady 16 degrees, will def leave it on, something seems to be working. Be it the warmer water, the sansai in the food and in the pond or the salt bath. FINGERS CROSSED!!!

Thanks for listening, and being there...


Dawn

Great new dawn lets hope he now make's a full recovery you sound a lot happier

Yeah, it is amazing, he's just swimming with the other fish... I couldn't be happier. Fingers crossed it is going to stay like this and he'll be fine. Paul is shocked, can just a bath in salt really do that! he said.

Will keep posting and updating, next project. Fix the QT...


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Yeah, it is amazing, he's just swimming with the other fish... I couldn't be happier. Fingers crossed it is going to stay like this and he'll be fine. Paul is shocked, can just a bath in salt really do that! he said.

Will keep posting and updating, next project. Fix the QT...


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Tell Paul he to can have a salt bath