remedioslabella asked:
I have 9 Koi in an outside small pond.
I discovered one of them has raised scales and a very inflated body.
Is this contagious?
What can I do?
I have 9 Koi in an outside small pond.
I discovered one of them has raised scales and a very inflated body.
Is this contagious?
What can I do?
I certainly agree that the fish might not live. However, I don’t believe that dropsy is contagious, in fact I have a fish swimming around in my pond that has had all of the signs of dropsy for at least two years now. Sometimes it looks a little slimmer than other times but it’s still swimming around and still feeding.
your koi has dropsy. quarentine him. dropsy is a sign of extemely poor water quality, and is a disease, so do a water change, immediatly. Your koi might not live, I just want to warn you right now
flush him/her away
i cant remember what it was called but 3 of my koi had this years ago and a book i had at the time advised to put them in a tank of some sort and put them in a shed. at the time it was winter and it said to warm them slowly we did it with an electric heater in the shed (no more than room temp), then add normal table salt to the water, i cant remember the amount but if you find out this did actually work, two of them survived.
It’s called dropsy. Check your water quality, and give him medicated food.
It’s almost impossible for a fish to completely recover from dropsy. It’s often a sign of old age or cancer, and it’s caused by organ failure.
It happens in humans, too.
some have found a injection of antibiotics have worked ,its not contagious itself but the cause of the dropsy is. A lot of ponds this time of the year are suffering due to the temperature change.
you can take your koi out and give him a 6percent salt bath for 30 minuets and put him back if that does not work you can treat him in a tank bring him in and do a 3 percent salt bath and turn up the temperature in the tank
this is dropsy as previously stated due to poor water quality do the water change but slowly as it’s so cold
remove the fish and put him in a separate tank/small pond and add aquatic salt (NOT table salt) at one ounce per 10 gallons and keep him in there until he shows signs of distress IE swimming on his side then replace him in the pond with the others this is not infectious just a stress reaction to poor quality water you can if possible add an air pump to the salt tank to keep the fish in longer the longer he can stay in it the better but you may still lose him