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    Ph will be fine as bicarbonate buffers to 8.3 just watch the KH

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    any thoughts on the fat cheek?

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    Hi Craig,

    Could be a few things mate, including:

    Deformity - however I guess not there previously?
    Knock - could be caused by flashing, netting etc..
    Inflammation - bacterial
    Sting From bee

    Personally I would add some Vitalize and keep and eye on it.

    Cheers

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    any thoughts on the fat cheek?
    Hobby and business gone but when you’re hooked you’re hooked.

    Always happy to help!!

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    so the smaller of the two with the fat cheek, it appears to be "peeling" we scooped her out for a better picture:




    any thoughts?

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    Hi Craig,

    Great pic of an unfortunate situation.

    Only time I have seen similar was on a very knowledgeable friend of mine’s koi who believed something had got in and caused the inflammation. What he did was extremely specialist which I would not advise attempting without prior consultation with say Paula Reynolds (if she is available) or Manky Sanke on here as he may well have seen similar previously.

    Cheers

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    so the bigger ones fat cheek seems to be going down. but the little guy (pictured above) seems to be going more red now. hes also sort of isolating himself (though is still coming over for food when i am feeding, and is still eating)

    I am still adding bicarb to try and get up/over the level indicated by the test kit. I am up to 6 drops now on the test before going yellow, GH however does not appear to be improving.

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    Could you sedate it Craig and have a look inside the mouth to see if anything is stuck / damaged on the inside
    of the cheek....Do you feed dried mealworms ? sometimes they can have really sharp ends on them i have a quick look
    now just to be sure there's no sharp ends on them

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