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Sick Fish or Sick Pond Form
Please describe your problem, including fish characteristics, like;
whirling, flashing, gasping at surface, wounds, etc.:
Pond Size in Gallons? (litres*.26=US Gallons): 6
feet round 3 feet deep and the other 8 X 4 X 4
Water Source (Well, Irrigation, City?) Well
If City how is water treated?: =
Time in Operation?
(How old is the pond/water?): 2nd year
Liner type? (EPDM,PVC,RUBBER,Cement/Concrete etc): flex
Fish Population?
Type? Size? QTY, Time in Pond: 3 koi, 6 gold 10-15 minows
Food? Type and Frequency of feedings.: Tetra Pond pond sticks ones
daily 1/8 of a cup
Pump Type, IN/OUT of pond, GPH etc
(Describe your filtration system as well as possible): 1200GPH with a
6 foot rise to water fall
Prefilter media type? Last cleaned?: The punp had a filter with it when i
got it. it has a bag with small pebbals in it. clead daily.
Filter is BIO or Mechanical? Last cleaned? How?: from prefilter the
water gose in to a baral full of pea gravel the baral is about 2.5 round and
2.5 feet deep, from there the water gose into a bog filter filled with pea
gravel about 2 X 5 X 1.5 feet, to a waterfall.
Carbon added? How much? When last changed?: none, never
Aeration? Waterfalls? Bubblers? waterfall
Venturies?:
Water Temp? 70
PH?:
Ammonia (ppm or mg/l) don't know:
Nitrite (ppm or mg/l): on the thst srip it gose from wite to pink when
tested the srip turnd greenish gray
Nitrate (ppm or mg/l): 5-10
Water Color, cloudiness, odor?: greenish, cloudy, none.
Water changes? (% of pond volume and how often): have auto iller to keep
level up. other then that i don't change water.
Additives used (water conditioners etc): barly straw
Tests done by self or another?: self
Weather (what's it been like lately?): sunny
Medications used?: none
What Zone or Country of residence?: 5 USA
~ jan
My pond is about 1200gal or should I say two ponds that are connected.
Only
the bottom pond has fish, six gold fish and three Koi and about 15 little
minnows that my kids got out of the local creek. I recently noticed one of
my gold fish with some of the skin is hanging a way. I think it is some
kind of fungus. Do you or anybody else out there know how to make a 3% salt
salutation. I want to make a small bowl with a 3% salt salutation and just
put the sick fish in it. Dose anybody know how to do this.
As I started to look at all the other fish I noticed another gold fish with
little black spots on its side. Looks like someone took a ballpoint pen and
put dots on it. Any idea or help would be welcome.
I am a 2nd year ponder. Last year I had a 6 foot round about 3 feet deep
pond. I simply fell in love with the whole thing. I did fight the string
algae all year but overall I loved it. I have six gold fish and three Koi
and about 15 little minnows that my kids got out of the local creek. My pump
is a 1200 gpm. The waterfall is about six feet up.
I loved the pond thing so mush that I put in another pond this year. It
connects with the first pond and is about 4 X 8 X 4 feet. I did not ad any
fish in it and left the old fish in the first pond. All of my lilies are
coming back strong. Even the tropical ones, they don't look as strong and
as big as the others. I got some barley straw early this year and haven't
had any problem with algae this year. The pond got crystal clear and stayed
that way for two or three weeks. Then it turned, I can still see the bottom
but it has a greenish tint, and just a little dead algae floating on top
every day. Nothing I can't skim off in 2 to 3 minutes. It all looks a
little stagnant and I also now have some sick fish. (See other massage Sick
fish). I also added a bog filter about 5 X 2 X 1.5 feet. I think that's all
the info you will need. So before I keep rambling on here are my questions:
Is my pump to small?
Is the decaying barley straw making my fish sick or responsible for the
murky water?
OH one more thing! About every other day I fish out a half gallon of frog
eggs. Now I don't mind some frogs but this is too much. Anyway I can get
rid of the frogs? Thanks for your help.
Rick.
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