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My oranda, 7 years old has had hemmoragic septicima for about 2 months now, slowly getting worse and the medicine Ive been using hasnt been working. Any advice?

What medication are you treating with and what dosage?

Make sure he's not getting the opportunity to eat any partially decayed food off the bottom. It took me 18 straight years of losing fish wholesale to septicemia -- despite every medication I could throw at it, and despite the fact that the water always tested clean -- before I finally realized that they were picking up the bacteria from that source and giving themselves massive food poisoning. When I sharply increased my supply of bottom-feeders to eat all the bottom food BEFORE it had any chance to start decaying, my death rate plummeted. I've since talked to other people who had the same experience.