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Just got my pond up and running within the last few months and now have around 10 small 5-6" koi.
Last weekend I noticed that around 4 fish were flashing and flicking. I took a couple to my local koi dealer who did a scrape and said that it was flukes, to which I bought a fluke treatment (NT labs B-d-s fluke treatment)
They are still flashing a week late and are due another dose. Just wondering how long the treatment should take to work?
Also would it be worth giving them a salt bath? And what is the best way to do this?
Not sure with NTlabs Fluke stuff, if it is still flukes then a salt bath won't do anything for them, prob best to re-scrape to be sure.
Did you get the koi from the same place that scraped them. as it would most likely seem they came with the parasites? especially being that new to your pond.
What are your water perams? As also being newly up and running it could be that the filter hasn't cycled enough to cope with the koi. Are you also feeding them much?
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I have bought The majority of fish from the place that did the scrape, but have also got some from the Internet and another dealer. Fish from each place are flashing.
Params are all fine, showing minimal signs of ammonia.
Hardly feeding at all as fish seem to stay on the bottom and are reluctant to come up for food.
It could be even just that minimal ammonia trace. Defo don't feed and change the water each day till it shows 0...
I'd suggest a scrape again after the second dose (if that is what you need to do) and then see where your at. hopefully they flukes are gone and it could just be the stress and raised ammonia.
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