I was sad to see my favorite Koi somehow has a tear on the skin on his forehead (my poor prize Kokahu
). The tear seems just the skin, underneath looks pure white, in other words I tihnk only a superficial wound, but it is in a critical place on a valuable fish (at least sentimental value to me!)
I found that he has a strip of skin that has torn, about 1/4" wide and about 3/4" long, the skin flap is still attached. Of course, the rip has occured right in the middle of his forehead, so there is a white strip among the beautiful read marking. I am disturbed since this is my best Koi, just won Novice Champion at the WKWGS show.
Otherwise he is behaving quite normally, running up for food like nothing was wrong. This must have happened during the day since he looked fine when I saw him early this morning. I do think it was due to an aminal attack since the koi do not seem skittish at all. I am supposing the damage occured due to swimming into a rock edge or other sharp surface in my pond (which I tried to avoid).
Any thought on what I can/should do? Will this heal itself? Is there any way to try and use some kind of suture/glue to help healing? If it helps I will take a picture of the wound and post it tonight.