needucho
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Jun 24, 2007, 8:48 PM
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Re: [MikeSmith] Really Sick Fish
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hi, mike, i do not know Iradic at all, can you direct me to a website sell Iradic, an analyze of this product probably i can help you some. Since you have using Iradic, there is not a thing we can help you put in your pond.
White slime, translucent some what, slowly spread all over fish body can be 2 things: Epithylis is some rare parasite can cause that, it look like SAP but it more translucent, it can eat up the fish until dead. The other thing is the heavy content of bacteria in your pond, it slowly eat the mucus and the skin of the fish. In spring time, the fish immune system is week, bacteria in pond is high, they can do damage as bad as parasite. the only way to differ the two, Epithylis and bacteria is a scope. I have this problem almost every year in my pond, spring time. I scope find nothing. Ask several expert none of the answer satisfied me. Finally i found that .3% will eliminate all in 2 days. Salt make fish itching, they produce more mucus, increase their inmune system and overcome bacteria. You can put the severed infected fish in a small bucket and treat .6% salt in 1 hour. However, you still keep .3% salt in your pond at least 2 week to make sure.You will see the white translucent thin layer drop down like a small piece of cloth. .3% salt, if Epythilis present, will eradicated them in 2, 3 days. Malachite green do not help.
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.. Again on inspection they looked fine and did not have this white slime on them however I had noticed that they were staying at the top of the pond and went very lathargic since yesterday.