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hi i have just noticed that my 20 inch koi carp has white spots on him , only on his fines what treatment can i buy or has any one any home remedies thanks su…..
hi i have just noticed that my 20 inch koi carp has white spots on him , only on his fines what treatment can i buy or has any one any home remedies thanks su…..
its maybe shy
Does it look like the fish was sprinkled with salt? If so, that’s most likely ich, a common protozoan parasite that infects fish, usually when they’re stressed. Here’s a few links that explain what it is and different ways to treat it:
I prefer using the heat and salt method to treat, but that’s for my aquarium fish, I’m guessing your 20 inch koi is in a pond? You can use the salt method, don’t know how you’d heat it though. The heat basically speeds up the ich life cycle, thus killing it faster. Whichever method you use, be sure to treat for at least 4 or 5 days after the last spot falls off the fish to be sure it’s compeltely eradicated. Because, ich is only killed during it’s free swimming stage, I believe those articles talk about that as well. Good luck!
It’s called Whitespot or fin tot
Its normally caused during the colder months by a paracite that lives in in the water.
There are a number of chemical treatments on the market that you can add to the water to treat this.
It’s treatable, as long as you catch it early. If its only in 1 fish and does not look like clumps of cotton wool hanging off the fins then you stand a good chance if you treat is straight away, else it will start attacking your other fish.
You can buy off the shelf stuff, or it can be treated with a combination of Formaldehyde and Malachite, treat 3 times, or Parazoryne.
At 25 Celcius tretment should be repeated after 4 days.
At 18 Celcius treatment should be repeated after 6 days
At 10 Celcius treatment should be repeated after 10 days.
Best of luck.
White spot fin rot, but others have given you the solution to it
Might be carp pox. If it looks like waxy bumps or pimples, is mainly on the fins, and only appears in cooler weather/water, it is most certainly pox (though skin cancer is not unheard of in koi….). The pox looks ugly, but is fairly harmless, and will go away on it’s own once the water warms up. If you want to speed up this treatment, heat the water no faster than 1 degree per hour, up to 85 degrees F (any warmer than that and you will end up with fish soup!).
According to koivet.com (a website run by a veterinarian specializing in the care and keeping of koi and goldfish), here is a perfect shot gun remedy that will not harm the fish:
Here’s a perfect shotgun remedy that won’t hurt fish:
(1) Salt to 0.3 or 0.6%
(2) Warm the fish no faster than one degree per hour, up to the mid seventies, or if you want to combat Koi Herpes Virus, use the same one degree per hour heating from their ambient temperature up to 86oF
(3) MediKoi food is, in my estimation, by far the best made, best formulated medicated food. It will help control bacterial infections.
(4) Dimilin handily controls comparatively rare but large parasites like Anchor Worms and Fish Lice.
(5) Prazi or Prazi containing medications control Flukes on Koi and Goldfish best.
Using all of the above at the same time can be highly successful against most parasitisms and infections. The space in which this is done should be the largest possible (100+ gallons), with plenty of hiding-cover, algae or live plants, and plenty of water turnover for aeration.
Personally, I do the above only I don’t bother with the heating, and I substitute Pro-Form C (basically, formalin) for the Dimilin. Also, I like the powdered form of the Praziquantel, not the fake liquid prazi.
Hope this helps – good luck!