Articles that Help in a Disease Outbreak or in the Assessment of A Disorder or Illness.
Intercepting Fish Disease Written by Frank Prince-Iles Prevention is better and cheaper than cure! Fish disease can be both highly distressing, and in many cases, costly both in treatment and replacement costs. A key aim ....
Aeration - Oxygenation of Pond Water Aeration - by Doc Johnson "Warm water carries less dissolved oxygen than cold water. Aeration becomes of paramount importance in the summertime. In the winter, low dissolved oxygen would ....
Nitrites - by Doc Johnson Ammonia is converted into Nitrite by Nitrosomonas So, when you set up a new pond, and the fish produce Ammonia; that ammonia is reduced to Nitrite, the subject of this ....
PH Crash Is Anyone's Achilles-Heel - by Dr Erik Johnson Abstract Format: pH is just a measurement It needs to be higher than seven A high pH doesn't really matter unless there's ammonia in the ....
pH in The Most Basic Terms - by Doc Johnson Simple drop type test with Bromthymol Blue Stay above pH 7.0 for best results with Koi pH can "crash" to 5.5 overnight due to fish, ....
Help You're here because you called my office and they sent you to "koivet.com/help" I am sure you had a question and sometimes those are simple. You're invited to fax a question (not a whole ....
Heating Koi With Koi Herpes Virus Written by Dr Erik Johnson The Israelis want to make fish immune to KHV. It takes about 21-30 degree days to do that. No Koi can live that long ....
Hydrogen Peroxide For Oxygenation Hydrogen Peroxide For Dissolved Oxygen - by Dr. Erik Johnson Hydrogen peroxide can be used to increase the dissolved oxygen in the system. H202 + H20 ----------> H20 + 02 [caption id="attachment_141" align="alignleft" ....
Quarantine - by Doc Johnson [caption id="attachment_110" align="alignleft" width="192"] Quarantine is the best to reduce disease[/caption] Quarantine is the best method (almost the only method) to reduce disease introductions. Let me outline a quarantine facility ....
Written by Dr Johnson [caption id="attachment_87" align="alignleft" width="149"] Ulcer Disease in Koi is always created by damage, parasites, poor water and cold temperatures. Overfeeding and old water also factor.[/caption] Aeromonas bacterial infections are not as ....