Giving koi and pond fish Injections

Giving your koi Injections will be the best way to save them from bacteria infections, especially pond fish that will not eat medicated fish food.           
I strenuously recommend that you obtain the necessary injectable antibiotics and the syringes and needles, and commence injections immediately.

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,very easy and fast!!

Consider the following when undertaking giving your koi an injection:

Injection of Koi and other ornamental fish should be undertaken only when the risks are weighed against the benefits. There is a 5% chance that a pond fish will be injured or die when injected, even with a safe drug. With experience, the percentage drops dramatically. I recommend use of a 1cc tuberculin syringe. Needle size is best at 25 gauge, 3/4 inch length. Catch your sick pond fish as un-stressfully as possible. If your koi fish is laboring in the net, let him go and try again later. You can place your koi in a plastic bag with pond water then let the pond water out. Insert the needle at an angle, aiming through the koi fish as if to emerge at the mouth, going in just behind the ventral fins, but well in front of the anus or vent.

A preferred location for injection is UNDER the pelvic fin, in the soft pit at the base of this fin.

Quickly depress the plunger and withdraw the needle. Most damage is done if the fish moves with the needle in place, as the needle's bevel is sharp and can lacerate intestines if the fish thrashes. You will usually take a scale with each shot. BIG DEAL. Trying to miss a scale will only land you in the center of another one.

For all but a few drugs, injection every day for 3 days then EOD for 2-3 more is a good rule of thumb.