| Got bugs!
Thanks Saratogatan and Dan, good advice greatly appreciated!
Yep Dan located SE of Kent in Western Washington.
Sodium Thiosulfate, Amquel, Amquel +, Novaqua, PP, Quick cure, Paracide Green, and a bottle of Cycle. Hikari wheat germ, staple, gold. No food for the first three days (what I was told when I got the fish ....should of told them they were going into a new system), then wheat germ for a week, then pretty much staple although I add a few pellets of gold and wheat to it. Feed once a day what they can eat in 5 minutes and I cut up one shrimp a couple times a week for treat. Don't worry no more food til bio filter gets up!
Finally got some scrapes to someplace with a microscope and it seems I have Chilodonella. Not to bad I hope, 3-10 per slide, on the ones that had it, no other parasites were found. I looked all around and down south today for Tricide neo, Triocide 3 or Neocide 3 locally and could not find any, I will check up north tommorrow, if not there I will mail order some.. When I got home I checked the ammonia level and it was at 1.0 so I did a 25% water change and it only dropped to .8. That is when I then promptly freaked out. ten 5 gallon buckets of pond water to the upstairs tub till I had 40 gallons in it. drop in an airstone and went down and netted all the fish. Put the fish in the tub and drained the Qtank and the settlement barrel, left the Bio filter barrel full of ammonia laced water so the bacteria has something to munch on. I hosed out the Qtank and brushed the sides down and wet vaced up ALL the water. Started to fill the tank back up and it took forever because I had to keep waiting an hour for the water heater to recharge each time. salted to .4, treated and tested till all the parameters looked good (O2 8, ph 8 every thing else 0). Turned on the pump bypassing the Bio Barrel. I then got the temp dialed in exactly to the temp of the upstairs tub. Grabbed the fish and brought them downstairs. Each one was inspected and spots were dabbed with Quick Cure before being placed back in the cleaned Qtank. Cleaned up around the tank and kept checking the fish for signs of stress. Everything looked good so I called it a night. Tommorrow I want to address the bugs but I can not use quick cure because of the salt or PP because of the Sodium Thiosulfate to dechlor when I filled it back up (need to wait 2-3 days) So I am thinking Paracide green the whole tank still bypassing the bio for 4-6 hours then turning back on Bio filter and the TT that has Activated carbon in the top tray. skipping a day, treating w/PG, skipping a day, treating w/PG. If I find some Neocide tommorrow I will dip em. I can not believe that with all the meds I got for my birds that none will work on Koi 8).
Lester
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