| Sorry if my follow up have not been great
Sorry if my follow ups have not been great I get on the net mostly at night I have 3 small children. They keep me busy. I should have said that I found parasites on the fish that dies before they died. They were stressed and laying over, so I did the scrapes, all skin scrapes and gill scrapes and that is when I found the bugs. It was only a bit after that they died, couple hours. They were alive when I scoped them, just knocking on death's door, they were also very lethargic and covered with a mucus. I know you won't find any parasites on the dead they just jump to another fish. I have read sometimes you can only find intestinal parasites, on the dead, with necropsy. I will go back and re-check my Koi Shack threads I updated some yesterday and last night. My children are ages 3,5, and 8 and all boys, busy little bees. I try and follow up as best, sorry for any delays and I appreciate all the help and advice. I will check my pH after the CO2 leaves, I have only checked it right in, next water exchange I will let it aerate some as JR said and check it. It was just a 6.4 coming right out of the tap, I will re-check after aeration. That's interesting, I did not know that when CO2 leaves the pH can rise naturally. Thanks.
Carrie |