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Fish Health Seminar - University of Georgia

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Ashly and I attended the 2009 Koi Health Management Seminars at the University of Georgia. Wow!!! What an awesome three days of incredible information on the latest health management practices, diagnostic and treatment techniques and procedures! Water quality, antibiotics and treatments for bacterial, fungal, and parasites along with diagnostic imaging, necropsy, and sampling techniques were all packed into this awesome weekend.

Our training sessions and labs were conducted by three of the leading Koi veterinarians in the country along with Vicki Vaughn director of KOILAB Diagnostics at the University of Georgia. Dr. Helen Roberts, Dr. Brian Palmero, and our friend and mentor Dr. Erik Johnson were nothing short of incredible. They collectively represent the best minds in the field of fish care and treatment techniques. We were so fortunate to work side by side with these masters.
Ashly and I were up against veterinarians in our class, and we were able to draw blood samples faster and more accurately then any of them. It's a bit of a tricky procedure on fish, so that was kind of exciting for us. In the wet lab portion of our training we performed a necropsy and took tissue samples of the gill, liver, swim bladder, kidney, heart, intestines and spleen. If we should run into a pond with severe fish health issues, we now have the technical capability to necropsy a fish and submit the necessary tissues and cultures to the University of Georgia for extended pathological diagnosis if necessary.

If any of you attend our Advanced Koi Health Seminar in May, you will be able to see our video of the various parasites under the microscope. These are typically 90% of most issues we run across. Identification is the critical first step required before deciding on the most appropriate treatment for your fish and pond.