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January 30, 2005
R.I.P.
Lost another female koi sword tonight. This is one of the three that I had picked up just before our honeymoon. Came back from the honeymoon with one of the three missing and the other two sick. Been dosing the tank with almost every type of medication on hand but seemingly to no avail. The last remaining female koi from this batch seems almost ready to go too. Not sure what the problem was. White spots on the tail along with ragged tail edges. Ick? Fin rot? Used ick medicine for awhile which didn't seem to do much. Also used Melafix and Pimafix which didn't seem to help either. Just a bad batch of koi's I guess.
Whatever the problem is, doesn't seem to have infected any of the other fish though. Hope it stays that way.
UPDATE [2/2/05]: The last remaining koi female from that last batch of 3 has passed on as well. =(
Posted by ronin at January 30, 2005 10:47 PM
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It has been my experience that I can not keep tetra's with live bearers. A local breeder of guppies told me they carry a disease or fungus that they are immune to but 90% of livebearers will die from it. I just got some koi swords too, cool fish.
Posted by: greg at June 18, 2005 6:29 AM
Hmm, that's news to me. Currently I only have 2 pristella tetras in that tank anyway. I still have a trio of koi (along with a few guppies and Endlers) in that tank that's been doing just fine for months now. And I just got another trio of koi that seems to be in much better shape to begin with than that last batch so we'll see...
Posted by: Ben at June 18, 2005 9:00 AM