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Symptoms Finder
You'll get a picture of the koi / goldfish, you click on the koi fish where it's sick, or choose from several other behavioral options that your koi may be exhibiting.
Sample Submission
Koi and pond fish samples may be run directly at KoiLab or move to UGA for testing at basic cost price. When you send a koi or pond fish to Koilab, the diagnosis, sample collection from whole koi and goldfish, and consultation included.
What KoiCrisis Is For
OutBound Links
KoiVet.com
Probably the first and largest all-Koi health site on the web. Searchable, with chat and message board areas. Content by a veterinarian for fish and author, Dr. Erik Johnson.
KoiLab.com
If you're curious about the latest in Koi health, Koi Lab is where it's being learned. There are no "committees" and no "motions" to determine if we should learn something. Just clinical experience. It's a koi hospital.
Koi Beginner
Once you've leapfrogged through this tutorial you will have a solid, working concept of the Koi hobby and what it's all about. This is done just about exclusively with video and very little written material.
DrJohnson.com
More than koi health, this site spans all things animal, by a real veterinarian who shoots you straight.
Additional Resources
KoiFiltration.com
Non retail: All filtration, all the time. Site was designed for someone who wanted a balanced overview with illustrations and pictures. All types of filtration considered including Nexus, Vortex, bead, sponge, canister, etc.
KoiNutrition.com
Non retail: Just feeding, feed, and food. It's not a retail web site, it's all about different foods, feeding and nutrition.
Koi and Pond Hard Goods
So many places these days, are pure ripoffs. Finding a reputable dealer of koi and pond hard goods isn't as easy as you would think but there's ways to tell. The product line should be to-the-point and not contain shams. Who's doing it right? Visit this site!
Finding Reputable Dealers
The fish are only as good as the dealer holding them. Quarantines, guarantees and fish quality all factor in. What to ask, what to see and how to handle your new fish.
Books on Koi Diseases
You will be introduced to Dr Johnson's Koi Health book but also to other books he's reviewed.
Help With Koi Problems
Koi Community rates a variety of forums and message boards on ease of use, friendliness and quality of help. Not all boards are created equal. Not mincing words here.
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Fins are clamped to the fishes' sides  When the fins are clamped to the sides of the body, what you're describing could be "anything". I would incriminate water quality first. You may have just cleaned out your fish tank, leading you to believe that water quality must be good, however the water quality can still be poor. Most importantly, KNOW your pH and make sure you test for nitrogen accumulation: Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate.If water testing isn't in store for this fish, why bother worrying about it at all? Without knowing the water quality, the fish is a goner so you might as well flush it. Because all the medicine in the state of Texas will not improve the health of a fish suffering in water teeming with Ammonia or a low pH. If you have your water tested, or you test it yourself, and the water quality is quite good, please consider that it could also be a parasitism. If it were a serious parasitism, the fish would have marks on the skin, slime on the skin, or it would be NOT EATING - How could the fish have a "mild" parasitism? Well, fish aren't all supposed to die from parasites. If they did, the parasites will have defeated themselves by eliminating all their hosts. Natural selection (I don't believe in Evolution) has balanced most fish against their parasites so that the fish can CARRY the parasite and most of the hosts will only be "sick" not dead. If this is the case, and water quality is quite excellent and the tank is duly spacious, you could consider a mild parasite remedy like salt or perhaps some Fluke Tabs. There is considerable information in this web site about all these elements. Don't get frustrated that I have not expounded on every point, re-writing what I have written over and over again. It's up to you to take the time to use the key words in this message to search out the information abundantly available in this web site.
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Fin rot is usually a sequel to transport damage to the fins. What happens is that the fish are transported fed, or too densely packed in the bag - the Ammonia builds up in the bag and starts burning the fish. When it comes out of the bag it looks pretty good but the tissues, especially fin and gill tips, are burned-off. So in a day or two, these tissues start to die back and decay, causing what appears to be fin rot. These same circumstances can also occur in your tank. If you are not maintaining perfect water quality, the problems with your water can negatively impact the fins and they can start to appear rotten. It's a rare case where a major water change, and good husbandry (fish care) doesn't straighten out Fin Rot. If you want to treat fin rot, here's what you do: 
Koi Beginner
Once you've leapfrogged through this tutorial you will have a solid, working concept of the Koi hobby and what it's all about. This is done just about exclusively with video and very little written material.
DrJohnson.com
More than koi health, this site spans all things animal, by a real veterinarian who shoots you straight.
Fishdoc.co.uk
By Frank Prince-Iles. A UK authority who put this site together some time ago and which is still relied upon as a major source of good Koi and pond fish information
Fish Medicines
Learn about fish medicines, what they do, and where to get them.
PondCrisis.com
If you have a koi, pond or fish problem, this site takes you through twenty easy questions and at the end you know what you need to fix in your pond to create restored Koi health.
KoiCrisis.com
Koi Crisis has a symptoms chart by system you can choose the symptom by fish part, and resolve a lot of Koi pond fish problems or at least, learn about them understand how to remedy them.
Buying Domestic Koi
What does "Domestic" koi mean? Why would you buy that kind? How do you pick good and healthy ones? Who sells them and where do you find the best ones?
Buying Imported Koi
A Japanese or Israeli imported Koi is a beautiful thing. Why would you buy one of those? How do you identify a "good one"? And what kinds are there? Who would you buy one from?
Koi Filtration - Bead
With a little bit of management every week or so, you can have gin clear water in your koi or fish pond. Bead filtration is more than ten years old and defines the state of the art in Koi and pond fish ponds.
Koi Filtration - Natural
Requiring no weekly management but one big yearly overhaul, natural filtration is the easiest there is. Relying on live plants and organic processes, water quality is usually superb. Described and common mistakes illustrated, visit this site!
Koi Food & Feeding
What should you feed your koi? How many times per day? Is Corn really that bad in a Koi diet? What are the most common feeding mistakes people make? What's the best food?
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