Koi and Goldfish Health
MinnFinn is one of the only safe medications that is non-toxic, environmentally friendly, and works with as little as a single treatment for MOST koi diseases and goldfish diseases stemming from bacterial infections, fungal infections, and parasites.
If koi and goldfish are sick, test the pond water as poor water quality is responsible for most pond problems.
Potassium Permanganate can be deadly to koi and goldfish if not applied properly or if applied for incorrect diagnoses. It can also damage beneficial bacteria in biological pond filters.
Pond Salt and medicated koi and goldfish food, or koi and goldfish food with antibiotics, are the safest and most effective means of curing koi and goldfish diseases, sicknesses, and health problems. Romet TC is an excellent broad spectrum antibiotic that cures most koi and goldfish wounds, diseases, fungal infections, and bacterial infections. Medicated koi and goldfish food is ingested and therefore is more effective than koi and goldfish medications that are added to the pond water.
Koi and goldfish that have succumb to disease or have health problems can be easily cured provided the problem has been caught in time and provided that we can identify the problem. There are several diseases and health problems common to koi and goldfish. Most koi and goldfish diseases result from poor water quality or improper pond care.
MinnFinn Cures MOST Koi and Goldfish Disease with a SINGLE Treatment
Common Koi and Goldfish Diseases and Ailments/ Koi and goldfish disease remedies
Koi with red Spots/ ulcers; goldfish with red spots/ ulcers
Causes: ammonia and/or nitrite problem
Solution: Test pond pH, ammonia in pond, and nitrite in pond. Ensure pond filter is adequate; stop or decrease fish feeding for a couple weeks. Apply a pond detoxifier (ammonia and nitrite remover) to provide instant relief and at the same time, apply a beneficial bacteria to consume ammonia and nitrite. Ensure pH is balanced as high pond pH being exponentially increases affects to koi and goldfish. When ammonia is high, it can drive the pH down to unsafe low levels.
Lesions/ holes in body
Causes: ammonia and/or nitrite problem
Solution: Ensure pond filter is adequate; stop or decrease fish feeding for a couple weeks. Apply an ammonia and nitrite remover to provide instant relief and at the same time, apply a seeding beneficial bacteria to consume ammonia and nitrite. Ensure pH is balanced as pH being high can exponentially increase effects to koi and goldfish. When ammonia is high, it can drive the pH down to unsafe low levels.
Cause: Predation
Solution: install decoys and/or cover the pond with pond netting or install a pond protector.
Cause: Parasites
Solution: Apply a koi and goldfish medication that takes care of parasites.
Flashing; Koi Swimming along pond bottom, then turning sideways and swimming straight up; irregular koi movements; koi jumping out of the water; koi “darting”
When koi flash, often referred to as flashing, they are telling you something is wrong and often look like they are trying to remove something from their body. Koi are intelligent animals and have an instinct to remove themselves from harmful situations caused by bad pond water. This is why koi jump frequently. They are attempting to leave the bad pond water. Koi can and will randomly jump. Random jumping and flashing are not anything to be concerned with. Habitual flashing and jumping is a clear indication of a pond water problem.
Causes: poor pond water quality; high ammonia, nitrite, and/or pond pH high; anchor worms, fish lice, or other possible koi or goldfish parasite
Solution: Test koi pond water. Apply a pond detoxifier and beneficial bacteria. Inspect koi and goldfish for parasites. If parasites are found, treat with Microbe Lift Parazoryne or Medfinn.
Pop-eye or koi with bulging eyes; goldfish with bulging eyes
Causes: ammonia and/or nitrite problem
Solution: Ensure pond filter is adequate; stop or decrease fish feeding for a couple weeks. Apply an ammonia and nitrite remover to provide instant relief and at the same time, apply a seeding beneficial bacteria to consume ammonia and nitrite. Ensure pH is balanced as pH being high can exponentially increase effects to koi and goldfish. When ammonia is high, it can drive the pH down to unsafe low levels.
Cause: improper acclimation process
Solution: add pond salt and apply Koi TLC to reduce koi and goldfish stress
Cause: foreign chemical in pond water
Solution: conduct a partial water change; be sure to use dechlorinator and something to encourage slime production as well as something to reduce stress. There is one product that serves all three of these purposes: Koi TLC.
Swollen koi/ swollen goldfish; bloat; pine cone disease (dropsy)
Dropsy is a result of an infection that occurred or caused internal organ swelling.
Causes: bad water quality, improper feeding, or natural causes
Solution: there are a couple of products on the market to cure dropsy: Microbe Lift Sabbactisun and MinnFinn. Both a very safe and Microbe Lift is an effective herbal remedy that is concentrated and easy to apply. MinnFinn typically only takes one treatment whereas Microbe Lift takes 10 treatments.
Goldfish and koi with fin and tail rot; parts of the koi or goldfish rotted away
Causes: natural causes (koi and goldfish get sick in a similar fashion to humans); poor water quality, and/or stress.
Solution: Pond Salt, Medicated Fish Food, and/or Microbe Lift Sabbactisun or MinnFinn.
White growth, green growth, or brown growth on koi and goldfish
Causes: Fungal infection resulting from fish stress, poor water quality, and/or natural causes
Solution: Pond Salt, Microbe Lift Sabbactisun, or Pond Salt and MinnFinn.
Excessive slime production on koi and goldfish
Causes: Fungal infection resulting from fish stress, poor water quality, and/or natural causes
Solution: Pond Salt, Microbe Lift Sabbactisun, or Pond Salt and MinnFinn
White cottony growth on koi and goldfish
Causes: this is called ich, and typically results from stress resulting from poor water quality.
Solution: Microbe Lift Ich Out; MinnFinn
Blood in fins and/or tail of koi and goldfish
Causes: fungal infection, and typically results from stress resulting from poor water quality.
Solution: MinnFinn
Koi and goldfish dying and have no markings
Causes: bacteria infection resulting from natural causes and/or stress from poor water quality or instability
Solution: Wipe Out Bacteria Control or MinnFinn
Koi and goldfish not being able to swim below water surface
Causes: swim bladder problem
Solutions: Microbe Lift Sabbactisun; Wipe Out Bacteria Control; MinnFinn
Koi and goldfish hovering by waterfall
Causes: foreign chemicals in the pond water, too much algae control, not enough dechlorinator used during a water change; insufficient oxygen levels due to over population; gill flukes or gill maggots
Solutions: partial water changes (using dechlorinator or tap water conditioner), install aeration system and/or aeration monitor; Treat pond with praziquantel (if the problem is from gill flukes or gill maggots); MinnFinn will work well in this instance, too.
Koi and goldfish in group not swimming
Causes: koi and goldfish spooked from predator and/or water quality problem
Solution: install decoy and/or pond net; solve water quality problem
Koi and goldfish will not eat
Causes: poor water quality; predation
Solution: test pond water; install decoy and/or pond netting
Fish Lice
Causes: adding pond fish and/or pond plants from unreliable source; stress from poor water quality
Solution: Microbe Lift Sabbactisun; Praziquantel; MinnFinn
Gill Maggots/ Gill Flukes
Causes: adding pond fish and/or pond plants from unreliable source; stress from poor water quality
Solution: Microbe Lift Sabbactisun; Praziquantel; MinnFinn