Selectkoi Medicine Guide
Selectkoi Medicine Guide. (Your tool for determining the right medication for your koi diseases)
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Your Koi can get sick due to all kinds of circumstances. The main reasons for this are poor water quality and the placement of new koi.
It is important to recognize the symptoms of koi / fish diseases in time.
Always check whether your water values are correct (especially Ammonia and Nitrite values). These must be in order (nil) for all medication use.
You should always aerate extra during medication.
Microscopic examination is necessary for a reliable diagnosis.
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Below we will get you started 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 do not have or cannot handle a microscope: Then it is best to hire someone (eg Selectkoi). If you want to do it yourself, try to determine as well as possible what your koi are suffering from.
Costia (Ichtyobodo) (100x magnified)
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex (also for baby koi / koi brood)
- Colombo Morenicol FMC-50 (not for baby koi / koi brood)
- Fish Pharma GTC (also 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 200 x)
Therapy:
- Potassium Permanganate.
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex.
- Fish Pharma Calin.
Chilodinella (magnified 400 x)
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex.
- Fish Pharma GTC.
White Dot (100x magnified)
Therapy:
- Colombo Morenicol Alparex (also for baby koi)
- Colombo Morenicol FMC-50 (not for baby koi)
- Fish Pharma FMC (not for baby koi)
Note: always treat 3 times with white dots.
Skin worm (Gyrodactylus) magnified about 50 times.
This worm is viviparous.
Recognizable by the hooks in the abdomen (the young).
Therapy:
- Colombo Lernex
- Fish Pharma Triclam
- In case of resistance: Lernex Pro or Triclam Plus.
1 treatment is sufficient.
Gill flukes (Dactylogyrus) magnify approximately 50 times.
This worm is oviparous.
Recognizable by the 4 eye spots on the body.
Therapy:
- Colombo Lernex
- Fish Pharma Triclam
- In case of resistance: Lernex Pro or Triclam Plus.
Note: with gill worm always treat 2 to 3 times. (The eggs are insensitive to medication)
Are your fish sick, but you cannot find anything with your microscope:
Then you are probably dealing with a bacterial infection. (provided that there are no contaminants in the water and the water values are correct)
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 is jumping.
- The fish swims restlessly.
- The fish lies still on the bottom.
- The fish squeezes its fins (holds them to its body)
- You can't see the fish.
- The fish hardly ever eats.
Therapy:
It is best to have a smear put on culture. Unfortunately, this takes a lot of time and you are often too late with treatment.
Natural product (no antibiotics):
- Colombo Morenicol Cytofex
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