| Well-said Dick.
More knowledge is a wonderful thing. A good koi health seminar/short course is a wonderful thing. Having appropriate chemotherapeutics and the ability to properly use them to save a fish is a wonderful thing.
Nonetheless, if you scrape your fish often and treat them at the first sign of a parasite, or use prophalictic treatments, you will shorten their life. Give me a fish with a strong immune system who can live comfortably with few flukes, a little Costia and persistent Aeromonas in the environment.
-steve hopkins |