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    Koi deaths, help!

    Hi all, I recently swapped to an Eazy pod and have been struggling a little with nitrites (only at 0.25 max) which I'm thinking may have stressed the fish, I thought it may have caused the deaths but now thinking it just stressed them.


    Anyway, 3 of my koi have died in the last week, all over 10 years old. They were inactive for a day or two, then developed white spots then died.


    Now I have another with same symptoms, is this actually white spot disease? I have treated with medifin which is a formeldahyde/malachite mix, is that appropriate?

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    Two more deaths overnight ☹️

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    I'm not sure from the photo. To find out for sure what is going on, you're going to have check out some mucous under a microscope. If you don't have a microscope, then get one asap or alternatively see if there any dealers, or fish health experts locally that are able to help/advise.

    White spot is lethal quite quickly if left unchecked.
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    That's not whitespot in the photo - although that doesn't mean there is no white spot.

    First impressions are fungal or bacterial. But this could be secondary infections from parasites.

    A water quality issue is usually the pre-cursor to such an outbreak, so the filter change could be the source, although a short term nitrite spike alone to 0.25 is highly unlikely to be the direct cause in an otherwise healthy pond. There was almost definitely more to it.

    What were the full list of parameters prior to the filter change and after the filter change, including pH, KH, Ammonia, nitrite and nitrates (in that order of priority)?

    Alongside getting water parameters back to perfect, a skin scrape and review under microscope is needed at this stage.

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    Thanks for your replies.

    Parameters are PH 8, KH 13, Ammonia 0, Nitrate 0.25 (no nitrate result avail)

    No change before and after filter install as of yet.

    I managed to find a store that did a scope for me today, three healthy looking fish were scraped, all completely clear. I scraped one of the fish that died last night and that had gill flukes and trichodina.

    With this in mind, I think I should just repeat the malachite/formedahyde mix twice more at 6 day intervals, sound good?

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    Why dont you put your location.Someone might help.If you were local to me i would nip round.It may save fish

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6044jason View Post
    Thanks for your replies.

    Parameters are PH 8, KH 13, Ammonia 0, Nitrate 0.25 (no nitrate result avail)

    No change before and after filter install as of yet.

    I managed to find a store that did a scope for me today, three healthy looking fish were scraped, all completely clear. I scraped one of the fish that died last night and that had gill flukes and trichodina.

    With this in mind, I think I should just repeat the malachite/formedahyde mix twice more at 6 day intervals, sound good?
    On the assumption your findings from the scrapes are accurate, as are your water readings, then yes that is the correct course of action.

    The FMG mix will not treat for the flukes, so once the course of treatment for the Trichodina has been completed and the Koi have had a couple of weeks to recover from it, you'll then need to treat with a Fluke medication.

    Neither Trich or Flukes are fast killers unless populations are huge over a period of months, so there could still be more at play, nonetheless both these critters need dealing with, Trich first, then Flukes.

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    I also have tric and body flukes and waiting for Duncans Praziquantel to come.
    Dunc advised me to do 2 x Prazi doses 1 week apart in case of gill flukes bypass drum,he said it should take out some Tric as well if not then pp after Prazi.
    Prazi costs £32 a shot and I need 2 so it's not cheap but if it works then good.

    Maybe this is what you need Jason,though I havnt lost any koi and they are behaving ok,just one that is not himself and going thin,so I think he has internal parasites hopefully Prazi will sort him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RS2OOO View Post
    That's not whitespot in the photo - although that doesn't mean there is no white spot.

    First impressions are fungal or bacterial. But this could be secondary infections from parasites.

    A water quality issue is usually the pre-cursor to such an outbreak, so the filter change could be the source, although a short term nitrite spike alone to 0.25 is highly unlikely to be the direct cause in an otherwise healthy pond. There was almost definitely more to it.

    What were the full list of parameters prior to the filter change and after the filter change, including pH, KH, Ammonia, nitrite and nitrates (in that order of priority)?

    Alongside getting water parameters back to perfect, a skin scrape and review under microscope is needed at this stage.
    [mention]RS2OOO [/mention] - could this be a repeat of your historic nightmare with plastic media from 2018 or 2019 or whenever it was? I seem to remember the manufacturer had you doing all sorts like taking media out etc? Then matured media you added dies after a couple of days?


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    Thanks everyone for the advice.

    I treated twice with fmg and can no longer see any trich.

    I've had three more deaths following the same pattern and when I scrape them they are COVERED in flukes, quantities I have never seen before, hopefully the below video link works for you to see.

    https://youtu.be/sAC0dvkhPI8?si=0WKbFnPZWButKhYI

    I took the advice from my local fish store and treated for last two days with PP alongside using or ORP meter to ensure an accurate dose, I kept it at 440 (pink) for four hours. One further fish is dying today and I scraped it, the PP had no effect at all, it is covered.

    I have fluke solve arriving tonight which is going in as soon as it comes, if that doesn't work I am totally lost.

    Appreciate your help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shropshire_Tom View Post
    [mention]RS2OOO [/mention] - could this be a repeat of your historic nightmare with plastic media from 2018 or 2019 or whenever it was? I seem to remember the manufacturer had you doing all sorts like taking media out etc? Then matured media you added dies after a couple of days?


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    Who knows!

    I never really understood the whole thing about reducing media to increase bacteria colonisation.

    At the end of the day bacteria are everywhere, including pond walls and floors etc.

    My eventual conclusion was that it just takes ages to properly mature plastic media.

    My current set up has both plastic moving bed and a static jap matting bay, and it matured rapidly and has remained absolutely bullet proof ever since.

    From the OPs issues I'd say it is quite likely a water quality issue has been the trigger.

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    I scraped the dead one and found two more things I can't identify, any ideas?

    Mystery 1
    https://youtube.com/shorts/Ua3fAAVbp...COMhwQNmbFeoTO

    Mystery 2
    https://youtube.com/shorts/0uszWMtUD...6YY68hKB13JKd4

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    From digging further do you agree mystery 2 is Chilodonella?

    I can't find what mystery 1 could be.

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    No.1 is difficult to identify with only half of it visible. It is either normal pondlife, or Tetrahymena which can often be found on dead fish.

    No.2 is almost definitely Chilodonella. Your pond will need treating for that sooner rather than later.

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    Ok, so I've got trich (although none seen on recent scrapes), Chilodonella & masses of flukes.

    Bearing in mind I've treated with fluke solve today, should I do a massive water change and start FMG tomorrow then in a couple of weeks come back to fluke solve?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6044jason View Post
    Ok, so I've got trich (although none seen on recent scrapes), Chilodonella & masses of flukes.

    Bearing in mind I've treated with fluke solve today, should I do a massive water change and start FMG tomorrow then in a couple of weeks come back to fluke solve?
    Flukesolv needs time to work - it's usually a 7 day treatment with a repeat after to kill any hatched eggs, so 14 days in total. It's also temperature dependent in that temps accelerate egg maturation. Also turn off your UV during the treatment and ensure that the treatment goes through the filters and pipework but isn't extracted by the filters.

    I will use flukesolv, leave for a 5-7 days, then repeat dose and then do a water change. Keeping an eye on the filter and water parameters as most treatments seem to impact filters in one way or another. Smaller food rations after day 3 of the treatment but stop if it spikes.

    I would treat the trich/white spot in priority, then the flukes.

    Typically a fluke won't kill a fish but it will weaken it and cause the fish to injure itself. Both can lead it infections.

    Trich doen't need a weakened host and spreads rapidly with the fish being overcome by trich being enough to become weakened making it easier for the parasite to multiply.
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    Chilodonella is serious and should be treated before treating for Flukes.

    Whatever you use for Chilo will also take out the Trich. FMG will kill both.

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    So the saga continues.

    I have only had one more death, most of flukes are gone and have found no trich or chilo which is good.

    I have however found this on all fish, tiny things I can't even see at 400x but I still think it could be costia, bottom right corner of the video, any ideas?

    Anyway, I have kusuri full strength fmg arriving today which will hopefully be the last treatment.

    https://youtu.be/lJRJcRw8rU8

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    The stuff that's easy to see drifting around and vibrating doesn't appear to be anything other than debris and cells.

    But if you are referring to the tiny things zooming around that you can only see on a big screen, I've no idea what that is, never seen anything move that fast on a slide and I even wondered if it was tricks of the light.

    What equipment are you using and at what magnification in the video?



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    Yep the bits drifting around is debris for sure, it's hard to capture it but if I ensure the scope is perfectly still, the other things are 100% something alive darting around and vibrating, there are thousands of them. It's a digital scope so It captures video, this was at x400.

 

 
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