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Koi and pond fish fin rot, tail rot and bacteria infections


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Management of koi pond fish fin an tail Bacterial Infections.

  • When you see a koi or pond fish with fin and tail rot, don't just treat the rotten fins.
  • Koi bacterial Disease is a combination of the koi Pond, the Bug, and the Host.
  • Most people just treat the bug. And fail.

One treatment to save your bacterially infected koi fish that will not eat is by giving your koi and pond fish injections.

I strenuously recommend that you obtain the necessary injectable antibiotics and the syringes and needles, and commence injections immediately.

Consider the following when undertaking injections.

If you cannot obtain injectable antibiotics or do not want to inject your koi, Ulcer Aid Rx is the treatment for you. Ulcer Aid Rx is the second best treatment for deadly pond fish bacterial infections like tail and fin rot and koi body sores. With Ulcer Aid Rx you just spray, dip or bathe your sick pondfish, easy and fast!!

If you can't catch your sick koi or pond fish to give them injections or treat them with Ulcer Aid Rx. I would recommend Medi-Koi medicated fish food. Now, I do not necessarily think the fish has a parasite, but the active ingredient in that food Trimethoprim Sulfa, Kanamycin and a Quinolone. That's the best combination for pond fish bacterial infections. I'd feed all the fish will eat twice a day for 14 days. Make sure they eat all the food, with none left on the bottom. No other food.

Soaking the koi fish in a bath of antibiotics is a last resort, but will not save valuable pond fish lives. antibacterial bath or dip treatment, however, is different.

Ukcer Aid Rx is an antibacterial bath or dip which kills bacteria on contact and is very effective along with Medi-Koi a medicated fish food.

Improving the overall health of the koi pond is CRITICAL to your success. If you neglect conditions which influence pond fish bacterial infections, your koi fish will die no MATTER how many medications you use. Here's a list of the pond and fish conditions which must be corrected before ANY success will be had:

  • Koi pond Overcrowding
  • Poor pond water quality
  • Extreme pond fish water chilling
  • Overfeeding your pond fish
  • Accumulation of pond organics in your pond water
  • High Pond Water Nitrites and Nitrates
  • Koi & Pond fish Parasites

There is little doubt that the average hobbyist would be best served to combine Medi-Koi, medicated fish food and antibacterial bath treatment together to recover their fish. Not only are the treatments effective, they are also cost effective.


Tailrot is just one form of bacterial
infection common in Koi and Goldfish

 

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