Y'all all ****ed up big time, and if you listen to any advice you get
in this or any other usenet forum your ****ing up even more.......

On Tue, 30 May 2006 20:16:48 -0500, "Cathy Lee"
wrote:

"Kelly" wrote in message
legroups.com...
Hello everyone,

My fiancee and I made the mistake of "wanting a pond and wanting it
now" and ran out and bought a pre-formed liner, pump, and biological
filter/waterfall and four koi fish. I dug the hole and we set the
whole thing up.

The big problem is.... we were dumb and rushed into it.

So your all a bunch of dumb ****s! Just like Carol and a few others in
these groups.
And
immediately we began to run into problems. WIthin a week after setting
up our 125 gallon pond, we wanted it bigger. This is mostly for the
kois sake after we read that one full grown koi needs as much as 300
gallons of water. We have one 8 inch koi, and three 4 inch koi.

Sandwhich size, and they are tasty if grilled and rubbed with garlic
and lemon

You have too many fish in such a small body of water. The shop keeper
should have told you this before selling you koi.

Why would a shop keeper telyou jack shit, they make money off assholes
and impulse buyers like you all aare...They seen a pair of dumbasses
coming..........

Ammonia levels quickly rose along with the nitrite. The ammonia levels
are now under control and reading zero. The pond has been "cycling"
for 2 weeks now. But the nitrite levels are still out of control.
For the past 3 days I have been doing 15% water changes, to no avail.
Today I checked the levels and they are 1.0 mg/L. Even higher than
yesterdays reading.
And I w9onder why ..hm, maybe a new method of cycling........uyour
trying to invent......dumbasses

I did a 50% water change and they are down to 0.3
mg/L.



Today I have also noticed that two out of the four koi are scratching
themselves on the pump and plant baskets.

Probbaly ammonia burn or the crabs, as crabs itch like hell,,,,,Ask
CArol Gulley, how bad crabs (crotch crickets) itch.

Parasites most likely.......yea crabs or crotch crickets

Here are my questions,
Are there any other strategies to reduce the nitrite levels other than
being patient? Enough bacteria has been added.... I used this really
expensive "Microbial Lift" stuff from the fish shop. The guy there
said I was doing everything right in the meantime.

A day late and a dollar short....hopefully your not of the profession
that is in health care

Microbial Lift for cycling? The people here recommend BioSpira. You may
want to try a different shop. What kind of filter are you using for this
small pond?

Sure spend that money and listen to a lfs that ****ed you to begin
with, They love folks like you......easy toget money off of, and
always have a reason why "YOU" ****ed up.

Should I be concerned about the fish scratching themselves today?
Could this be caused by the nitrite levels?

Naw, just dump a container of Gold BOnd crab powder in the pond, they
wil be fine.
You can Google pond+cycling and parasites. It would save people a lot of
typing.


Evidently CAthy Lee is too ****ing tires to reply but wants to see her
name posted out there in a dead or dying group like Rec.ponds is.

I really want my koi fish to make it through until next year when we
can do things right. They were expensive and I would hate to lose
them.

Yea, then yu can graduate to a 160 gal preform pond and a 325 gph
Little giant pump and buy some 24 inch koi and add a half dozen
goldfish as well.

Thanks for any advice!

You'll get the ****ing bill trust me, its alreadyin the mail. This
group belongs to CArol Gulley of Mt. Juliet, TN and she says its a
money maker espeically when she harvests email addresses off it and
the other aquaria groups she owns or trashed.

Kelly