Salting
Found a post done in the past about salting and was wondering more about it. As I said back when I first posted I had a koi that was laying over whenever he wasn't moving around. He eats and swims around well and doesn't show any other signs of illness other than his fins look a bit ragged I thought I saw some rot on them yesterday but I wanted to be sure so I netted him and took a good close look at him and found nothing (anchor worms flukes etc) I don't have a microscope so I can't do that, but I am baffled by this fish. Any other fish I have had that have gotten sick either got better(from medication) or died within a week or so. This koi has been doing this for 2 weeks now and doesn't show any other adverse effects other that the fins which could be from laying on his side so much.
Which brings me back to salting. Koivet says to try that before doing anything else becuase it is helpfull even if it doesn't solve the problem. I unfortunately don't know the exact gallons so 0.3 would be hard to calculate effectively. The older post says a salt dip is something that some of them use, but they don't salt the entire pond unless they are sure they need to. I of course am unsure of anything other than knowing that I am not sure. All the other fish are acting fine and nothing unusual is going on in the pond other than the one koi.
Todd
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