dying fish-need help please
Lee,
Thanks for the reply.
I tested the water and forgot to give the findings in my original posting.
Sorry--
PH -7.4-7.6
Ammon-- less than 1 PPM.
Nitrite-- .25
water temp- 80 degrees
I think those look good. what do you think?
I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ray
"Lee B." wrote in message
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Sorry to hear about your fish: it's always distressing to watch them die
and
not know why. Disease is always a possibility, but the first thing that
you
need to check is your water parameters: what are they? At this point, I
would be most concerned about ammonia and pH. Where are you located? What
is
the water temp? These things need to be known before anyone can give a
"guesstimate".
Lee
"ray hucek" wrote in message
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I am in need of some advice and hope you could help.
I am having a fish die-off. They are goldfish and the pond is about 6
years
old. I have never had anything like this happen before. There aren't
any
appearant signs of infection on the fish. The only symptoms that I see
are
listlessness at the end of their life. They lose their appetite.
There haven't been any plant or fish additions to the pond. The only
connection that I have seen is this-toads come to mate in my pond as in
previous years. This year, I found a dead toad floating in my pond,
which
I
took out. That was about 3-4 weeks ago. Later, all of the tadpoles
died
off. There currently are more and they seem to be doing all right. In
the
past week, I have had 1-3 fish die every day. Is it possible that the
toad
carried a virus that infected the fish?
I have done a water change this past weekend of about 30%. I medicated
it
twice with a combination of formalin and malachite green. The pond is
about
3,000 gallons and has an external filtering system.
I am at a loss. None of the diseases that I have seen described match
this.
I am hoping someone will have some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ray
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