Tag: koi diseases

How do you treat koi mouth rot?

First you can try hydrogen peroxide. Soak a cotton ball in the peroxide and dab the areas.

Take great care to hold the fish so that you do not get the hydrogen peroxide in the eyes, mouth or gills.

High salt .6% (6 pounds of salt per 100 gallons) used as bath for an hour or so.

Can Koi get ich?

It is a protozoan that begins its growth in the pond and later attaches to the gills of the Koi as it matures.

The ich parasite initially appears like little white grains of salt on your Koi.

Ich can kill smaller Koi, especially in crowded ponds and can cause
other bacterial infections in your fish.