koi disease and treatment

koi disease and treatment

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Koi Disease and Treatment

Keep koi and sooner or later the topic of koi disease and treatment will take on added meaning for you. Without getting into specific sick koi symptoms, quite often treating koi with disease or curing sick goldfish comes down to salt. As salt, koi disease, and treatment all go hand in hand at times.

You see putting in a little aquarium salt or epsom salt in pond water may will keep the bacteria count down in your water. While working as a disease preventative too.

Besides salt is felt to have a therapeutic affect on fish.

All of which is why you may find this guest article to be of interest. Since it touches, at least indirectly, on the issue of koi disease and treatment - with salt.

Pond Salt for Health Fish

by Brett Fogle

The important question of whether or not to add salt to your pond is often confusing for beginners and forgotten by experienced pond-keepers.

Here's How to Have the Fish Pond or Water Garden You've Always Dreamed of!

So to newbies and pro's alike we have this to say:

"Add Salt Today to Keep
the Fish Doctor Away"

True, there are some negative effects of higher salt levels on plants in the pond, but overall we think it is absolutely the very best thing you can add to your pond in terms of keeping your fish happy and healthy. Salt acts as a natural 'stress coat' and essentially thickens the slime coat on the fish's body - which is it's own natural defense system against bacteria and parasites.

Click forward to the next page to find out more about Brett has to say about the benefits of salt.

Koi Disease and Treatment