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Hello:
I lost 3 Koi in my pond over the winter. Two were new from Petco and a large one that was there when we bought the house last October. We've been learning how to maintain the pond mostly through error. Right now we have about 7 gold fish that seem really healthy. The filter works well and I'm doing 25% water changes every two weeks now. After the two small koi died I did an Ich treatment for 3 days that claimed to remove almost all parasites. But it failed to save my large Koi. I went to clean the filter today and I noticed a large number of small worms. Deep red about 1/2" x 1/32". In other word "very small". I've seen them before but it looks as though they are growing in number. I live in Austin TX. Are these worms normal? Can they harm fish? I can provide pictures if need be. Thanks Jim |
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The worms are midge fly larvae, harmless and
tasty fish food :-)) The reason they are in the filter is the fish ate all the ones in the pond! k :-) |
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I think they are blood worms. A sign of a healthy pond in fact.
"jthread" wrote in message ... Hello: I lost 3 Koi in my pond over the winter. Two were new from Petco and a large one that was there when we bought the house last October. We've been learning how to maintain the pond mostly through error. Right now we have about 7 gold fish that seem really healthy. The filter works well and I'm doing 25% water changes every two weeks now. After the two small koi died I did an Ich treatment for 3 days that claimed to remove almost all parasites. But it failed to save my large Koi. I went to clean the filter today and I noticed a large number of small worms. Deep red about 1/2" x 1/32". In other word "very small". I've seen them before but it looks as though they are growing in number. I live in Austin TX. Are these worms normal? Can they harm fish? I can provide pictures if need be. Thanks Jim |
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"jthread" wrote in message ... Hello: I lost 3 Koi in my pond over the winter. Two were new from Petco and a large one that was there when we bought the house last October. We've been learning how to maintain the pond mostly through error. Right now we have about 7 gold fish that seem really healthy. The filter works well and I'm doing 25% water changes every two weeks now. After the two small koi died I did an Ich treatment for 3 days that claimed to remove almost all parasites. But it failed to save my large Koi. I went to clean the filter today and I noticed a large number of small worms. Deep red about 1/2" x 1/32". In other word "very small". I've seen them before but it looks as though they are growing in number. I live in Austin TX. Are these worms normal? Can they harm fish? I can provide pictures if need be. Thanks Jim Sounds like either way I don't have anything to worry about. The gold fish that are in there are very playful. Too bad about the koi tho. I'll stick to goldfish for now. Thanks Jim |
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