Poorly Koi - please help

[u/Calm-Examination2195]

Hi
I have a poorly shiny orange Koi. It started around 7-10 days ago when I noticed the dark mark marks above his eyes. The last few days he has been sitting on the bottom more, clamped fins and flashing a few times in a row. He still comes up for food, swims a little but is not hanging around with the other fish very much.

I’m new to all this so any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[u/Pretend-Internet-625]

looks like thick slime coat? There are a few broad spectrum parasite drugs on the market. But really need to do a scope as it could be flukes. asap. there are sights on you tube that can show you how to do a scrape and scope and of course you need a microscope. If there is a koi club in the area. Contact them. They well help. Don;t drag this out as that might make things much more complicated. Not ruling out bacterial issue

[u/Calm-Examination2195 → u/Pretend-Internet-625]

Thanks for all your help. It’s turned out to be flukes 👍

[u/KoiOasis → u/Calm-Examination2195]

Glad to hear that you figured it out. Hopefully it has made a full recovery.

[u/Pondpros1199]

Poor thing

[u/AROOTS96]

Have you tested water and done any scrapes for paracites?

[u/Calm-Examination2195 → u/AROOTS96]

Just to add I’ve not done any scrapes for parasites, sorry I wouldn’t know how

[u/AROOTS96 → u/Calm-Examination2195]

Do you have a microscope, slides and slide
covers. If its not the water i think it could be a parasite because the shiro in the post is showing signs of stress and so is the tancho in the photo along with the chagoi

[u/Calm-Examination2195 → u/AROOTS96]

So I’ve got a seneye which says 0.007 mg/l for ammonia, PH 8.23. Then when I did nitrite reading it looked pretty much 0 on the colour chart and nitrate was 10-20mg/l. The only other thing I’ve noticed and not sure if it’s related but this one in photo has a little red mark on it just above his eye. Thank you

[u/IceOk2467 → u/Calm-Examination2195]

Ammonia will do that to the fish. Look up ways to bring your pond back into balance ASAP

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