Hello.
I've previously posted about this particular fish. My last post was here about a cloudy eye:
https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showth...-with-the-Eyes
I came back to the house this morning after being out of town a week. We had someone feeding the fish and scooping leaves out in our absence. I saw the fish pictured in the post above laying at the bottom of the pond, body curved, not moving. At first I thought it was dead. But then I noticed its gills were pumping, and it reacted slightly when touched with the leaf net.
I immediately checked the chem levels. Ammonia, pH, nirites, KH, all perfect. Nitrates were a bit elevated somewhere between 80-160ppm, but that is not all that unusual for this pond and it's been much, much worse in the past. No other fish exhibiting any unusual symptoms. There has been a heat wave while I've been gone, but nothing too extreme. Other than the cloudy eye, this fish was acting normally when I left town.
I'm doing a major water change, turning on the aerator 24/7 (it was on about 15 hours per day while I was gone), and also started treatment with Nox Ich for lack of having anything else around to treat with or having any specific idea as to what might be wrong. I'm gonna give it 24 hours and see if there's any improvement, otherwise I think it might be time for the hammer.
Does anybody have any suggestions for treatment options?
Thanks in advance for all responses.