koinutx
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Apr 12, 2007, 10:44 AM
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Re: [sunshinekoi] Health Check/Maintenance for Koi
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Hi Sunshine,
Those 6 items are what I came across some hobbyists are doing/ or thru mag reading. I'm not practising them at the moment.
maybe I elaborate more on their actions.
1 - Salt bath
They will take the koi out and do the salt bath at a regular interval of 3-4 months, as a preventive method for any parasite.
2 - PP bombing
That is a regularly event to do a PP bomb every 3 mth to the pond. And the intend is to be used as a preventive method for killing parasite, if any.
3 - Inject Anti-Biotic
This is perform on big koi, more than 70cm, every year, to improve its immune system
4 - Maintain a higher salt content
By maintaining the salt content to a certain level, it was intend to reduce the risk to parasite.
5 - Yearly drying up of filter.
Agreed that this is as good as starting new. This is also a preventive method to reduce the risk of parasite growing in the filter.
6 - Food Paste
Some made paste with medication(anti-biotic) and feed the koi regularly to upkeep the immune system.
Above are what I came across thru hobbyists, or mag reading. I'm not fully understood the rational behind some of these activities.
Personnally, method 2 is something I belived might be useful, for method 5, one year period may be too short, maybe I will do it every 1.5-2 years.
method 1 & 4, I'll only use it as a treatment, rather than a preventive method, as I believed if the fish is long term in salt water, Salt treatment will not be effective anymore, when the fish get sick.
for method 3, I do not have enough knowledge to comment or adminster it.
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