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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.
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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.
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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.

Feeding Koi
What to feed? What not to feed? How much to feed? What to look for in labels? And more can be found at this koi nutrition site.

Diseases or Disorders of the Fins
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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Fins are rotten (Finrot)
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:

  • Test your water.
  • Do a seventy five percent water change with dechlor.
  • Minimize crowding.
  • Feed medicated food.
  • Keep the fish from being too warm, they should be in cool clear water around seventy eight oF or less.
  • If you really feel like you need to bring more antimicrobials into the picture, Furazone Green works well.

Big veins are in the fins
Internal bacterial infections can cause dilation of the blood vessels in the tail and ffins. Also, high nitrate levels will cause peripheral vasodilation and exaggerated appearance of veins in the tail. Test nitrates at once!
Action Items
+ Most problems with fins come from water quality troubles so I'd recommend thorough testing for the numbers which matter. (Test kit with all the tests) + Water changes can't be understimated. Take the pondcrisis test to see if you're doing it right!
Needed or Recommended Items
+ Water testing + SupaVerm
+ Salting + Dechlor
+ Fluke Tabs
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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.

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.

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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