Selectkoi Medicine Guide
Selectkoi Medicine Guide. (Your tool for determining the right medication for your koi diseases)
Important information:
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Your Koi can become ill due to all kinds of circumstances. The main causes of this are poor water quality and placing new koi.
It is important to recognize the symptoms of koi/fish diseases in good time.
Always check first whether your water values are in order (especially Ammonia and Nitrite values). These must be in order (nil) for all medication use.
You should always aerate extra during medication use.
Microscopic examination is necessary for a reliable diagnosis.
To ask:
If you still can't figure it out after this explanation, you can MAIL us.
Below we will help you with the right choice of medicines.
*** You have a microscope: Then it is easier to determine what is bothering your koi and therefore you can also treat your koi with the right medicines.
*** You don't have a microscope or can't handle it: Then it's best to hire someone (eg Selectkoi). If you want to do it yourself, try to determine as well as possible what your koi are experiencing through what you see.
Costia (Ichtyobodo) ( magnified 100 x )
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex (also for baby koi/koi brood)
- Colombo Morenicol FMC-50 (not for baby koi/koi brood)
- The Koidokter Anti-Mix (not for baby koi/koi brood)
- Fish Pharma FMC (not for baby koi/koi brood)
- Fish Pharma Formalin (not for baby koi/koi brood)
Trichodina (magnified 200x)
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex
-Fish Pharma Calin
- Potassium Permanganate
Chilodinella ( magnified 400 x )
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex.
- The koi doctor Anti-Mix
White Dot ( magnified 100 x )
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex (also for baby koi)
- Colombo Morenicol FMC-50 (not for baby koi)
- The Koido Doctor Anti-Par (Anti-Parasite)
- Fish Pharma FMC (not for baby koi)
Note: always treat 3 times with white Dot.
Skin worm (Gyrodactylus) magnified about 50x.
This worm is viviparous.
Recognizable by the hooks in the abdomen (the young).
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Lernex
- Fish Pharma Triclam
In case of resistance:
- Colombo Morenicol Lernex Pro
- Fish Pharma Triclam Plus.
Duration of treatment:
1 treatment is sufficient.
Gill fluke (Dactylogyrus) magnified about 50x.
This worm is oviparous.
Recognizable by the 4 eyespots on the body.
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Lernex
- Fish Pharma Triclam
In case of resistance:
- Colombo Morenicol Lernex Pro
- Fish Pharma Triclam Plus.
Duration of treatment:
Note: always treat 2 to 3 times with gill flukes (the eggs are insensitive to medication)
Are your fish sick, but you can't find anything with your microscope:
Then you are probably dealing with a bacterial infection. (provided there are no contaminants in the water and the water parameters are OK)
What can you see on your koi (1 or more symptoms are possible):
- Red wounds.
- Pale gills.
- 1 gill is squeezed shut.
- The fish is chafing.
- The fish jumps.
- The fish swims restlessly.
- The fish lies still on the bottom.
- The fish pinches with its fins (holds them against its body)
- There's nothing wrong with the fish.
- The fish eats little or no food.
Therapy:
It is best to have a swab cultured; unfortunately this takes a lot of time and you are then very often too late with the treatment.
Natural product (no antibiotics):
Colombo Morenicol Cytofex
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