Thread: Severally battered koi

I’m absolutely beside myself. After re-pluming of my filter system. I found that somehow, probably the sudden surge of water rushing back in, my 40cm chocolate chag was sucked into my drum filter and probably churned over a few times.

The only way possible was threw a skimming which I had the baskets out of (because of a blanket weed issue) … I’ve put back in now. I don’t think for a moment this could happen.

He seems pretty beaten up and I’m heart broken. He has lost most of the lower half of his tail. And the back end of his dorsal fin with some scrapes to the nose and face…. He also looks like he has bruising on both his flanks.

He’s back in the main pond as I have now are else for him tonight; but he’s now being chased around by some of the others.

Does anyone have any advise on what I can do to treat his wounds to help him?

I assume he will be deformed for life. So sad!