What reason is the white hair on the body of koi? How to treat it?

Koi fish with white hair mostly suffer from white disease. Sick fish usually show a layer of white hair on their bodies and are depressed. If not treated in time, they are likely to die. Most of the causes of the disease are water pollution, traumatic infection or low water temperature. When they are found to suffer from white disease, the breeder can use low-concentration salt water to clean the diseased fish, then apply mercurochrome on the affected area, and then use oxytetracycline bath treatment.

1. what is the reason

for the white hair on the koi carp? The white hair on the koi carp is a white disease. This is a bacterial infectious disease, which generally occurs in fish tanks with high feeding density or in turbid water. It is more likely to be infected when the fish is injured. The diseased part of the diseased fish will grow a large number of hyphae like white hair, so it is called white disease. The causes of white disease

in koi carp are mostly traumatic infection or serious water pollution. After the disease, the diseased fish will grow a layer of white hair, accompanied by loss of appetite and listlessness.

2. How to treat

the white hair on the koi carp? After the koi carp suffers from the white disease, the breeder can take the following methods to treat it:

1. Wash the sick fish with low concentration of salt water, remove the hairy hyphae on the surface, and then smear mercurochrome on the affected area. After that, the sick fish were treated with oxytetracycline for medicinal bath, once every two days, and repeated three or four times would be effective.

2. Use low-concentration malachite green water solution to wipe the affected part of the diseased fish, two to three times a day, about three days will be effective.

3. Use low-concentration malachite green water solution to soak the diseased fish for about ten minutes. Or a low-concentration potassium permanganate aqueous solution is used for soaking the diseased fish for half an hour. In this way, he will recover in a week or so.