"Otto Pylot" wrote in message
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In article , Elaine T
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Help! My shubunkans are jumping out of my barrel pond. I knew I'd lost
a shubunkan over vacation but figured it was ammonia or something.
There was no way to find a corpse in the green water so I didn't know
what happened. I bought three more and put them in the pond on Friday.
All 3 were alive and accounted for Sunday. Today, I could only find
two. I finally looked on the ground, and there were two dead jumpers.

Do shubunkans commonly jump? Do I need netting over the barrel with
them? If so, how do I handle the marginals and water lettuce which are
sticking up out of the barrel? Please help! I don't want to find any
more dead fish on the ground.

We have 4 Shubunkins in our outdoor pond. Yes, they can jump every now
and then but ours have stayed in the pond. Granted it's about 1200
gallons so they'd have to jump really far to make it out.

Also, while I'm on the subject of shubunkans, one fish is constantly
chasing the other. I can't figure out whether it's aggression or mating
behavior. Will this stress out the chasee, and would a third fish help?
(Assuming I can keep it in the barrel and off the concrete.)

Yes, they are frisky little fish. Our's chase each other all the time
but we've never noticed that to be a problem nor have we seen any fry,
at least not yet. In fact, two of them are "missing" right now. We see
them every now and then so maybe because it's close to spring and the
water is getting warmer they're doing the fish thing.

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I don't know what calander you use, but mine says that it is spring already.
The green water should be a clue. If you had fish jumping out before, and
replaced them with more fish, who are now jumping out, you likely have water
quality problem. I would do at least a 50% water change immediately, followed
by a 10% change in about a week. You need to get whatever (probably ammonia or
very high nitrates) is irritating them out of the water. You probably also need
to add more water flow/aeration, at a minimum. Is your pond filtered? Another
possibility is that they are mating (yes, it's just about that time of year).