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Koi Bacteria Infection? Hitchhiker guide to Terramycine

have you experienced the rapid death of your koi fish? seen a big Ulcer on their body? or even seeing the bloated fish that makes you want to scream?! this cruel diseases sometimes are caused by the bacterial infection, and you might not be required to pull your hairs out to treat it well.

 

Introduction to Terramycin

Terramycin, or by the common scientific name for Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride is a wide spectrum antibiotic that works against Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria. they work by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis and thus might be your first line of defence to any severe bacterial infections (unless if the bacteria is resistant, then you might be in trouble). 

Terramycin works well when mixed with food or used as a bath treatment, however, due to their tendency to bind with calcium and magnesium inside the water, such treatment is unsuitable for treating fish on hard water or saltwater.

now we go to the useful parts

How do we use it for treatments?

the common dosage for Terramycin uses in freshwater is 50g for every 1000L. this treatment works well with salt treatment using 3kg of NaCl salt for every 1000L.

ok, so here we go.

Day 1 (preparation and treatment).

  1. Change 50% of the affected water, and vacuum the bottom of the pond
  2. Take our Activated carbon from your filtration media (if you have one)
  3. Turn off your UVC (if you have one )
  4. Wash your filtration media (make sure its clean)
  5. calculate your pond volume ( (Length (m) x Width (m) x Water Height (m) ) x 1000)

Treatment

  1. Add 3 Kg of NaCl/ Fish Salt & 50g of Terramycin for every 1000L of your pond water.

Day 5

  1. Check your fish, any better or no
  2. Still sick, go to day 6a
  3. all good and healthy, go to day 6b

Day 6a

  1. replace the water by50% and add 1.5kg of NaCl Salt for every 1000L

Day 6b

  1. change 75% of your water
  2. Add activated carbon to remove the remaining meds, and turn on your UVC back.
  3. you're done!

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Written by 

Yoshua Sinugroho