Help with koi

Newfishguy124

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Well my goldfish are doing fine but koi has a issue. Just noticed this today. What is it? Disease or sore a scrape maybe. Help! I have salt, prazipro, koizyme,cyropro,and potassium Permanganate as meds. My other koi seem fine no damage to skin.
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Thank you. Someone mentioned on koi site it might be ulcer. So I did a water change as my ammonia was way not good. But if there's a simple ulcer treatment I can give this koi let me know anyone.
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Thank you. Someone mentioned on koi site it might be ulcer. So I did a water change as my ammonia was way not good. But if there's a simple ulcer treatment I can give this koi let me know anyone.
😊
Ammonia could exacerbate it so that was a good thing to do. This has some info, although I’m not familiar with the source, so I’ll just offer it as a start point.
 
It looks like an ulcer. These are usually caused by bacteria and you can sometimes treat them with salt but normally you need antibiotics. Try salt first and if there's no improvement after a few days, get a medicated food that treats Goldfish Ulcer Disease.

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SALT
You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), swimming pool salt, or any non iodised salt (sodium chloride) to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is 2 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish, koi or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres and if there is no improvement after 48 hours, then increase it so there is a total of 4 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, Bettas & gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate (4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres) will affect some plants and some snails. The lower dose rate (1-2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres) will not affect fish, plants, shrimp or snails.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.

If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.

When you first add salt, add the salt to a small bucket of tank water and dissolve the salt. Then slowly pour the salt water into the tank near the filter outlet. Add the salt over a couple of minutes.
 

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