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    Thread: Emergency! Help! Butterfly Koi

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      Emergency! Help! Butterfly Koi

      Hello, so just received a lot of rain here in So. Cal this past week. Noticed one of my larger butterfly kois swimming kind of weird. I guess best way to describe it was just kind of derpy, using mostly her tail with her front finds tucked. Then started noticing her tail and fins had pink on it. Reached out to some people and thought it might of been caused by ammonia poisoning. Gave her a salt bath yesterday for 10 mins in a 25 gallon tote since i dont have a quarantine tank yet. Put her back in the pond, she seemed better last night, even swam around a bit with her fins out. Did a 20% water change as well on the pond also. Checked on her today and shes swimming like yesterday, front fins tucked in except once and a while she brings them out. But her swimming is kind of derpy, using mostly her tail and then floating on by. Any suggestions? Pond water test PH = 7.2, Ammonia .25 PPM, Nitrite and Nitrate at 0 PPM Heres a video of her during treatment
      https://youtube.com/shorts/76rX0HpqP0E?feature=share
      Last edited by dafoodangel; 12-14-2022 at 07:04 PM.

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      You state lots of rain...What is your normal PH reading? Is 7.2 normal? Can you do a KH test? It will show how stable your PH is. Is the ammonia reading after the water change? Do you have ammonia binders in the water?
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      What's your KH reading? I worry the reddish fins are signs of bacterial infection, or at least some sort of stress.
      Rain water is too clean, I'd add baking soda to buffer up the KH, thogh SoCal water is typically pretty hard.

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      my test kit did not have a KH test included, was able to find some at my local petsmart. The KH reading looks to be 120ppm and GH looks to be be between 60-120ppm, the color was very close on the guide
      Last edited by dafoodangel; 12-15-2022 at 10:19 AM.

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      Seachem prime can help curb the ammonia in the pond, I'm always cautious about 0 nitrate reading, maybe redo the test?

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