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eggs in pond/more info
Great info, a couple more things. There was much chasing and splashing by these certain two koi. The water has gotten murky all of a sudden too. So looking to see this koi to check if she is skinnier will have to wait until after work today. The one koi did keep hitting the other broadside and following. On another note, I do have to many fish in my pond, but all has worked fine till this( meaning clear water) I have 5, 13"-14" koi I raised from 2-3". Also I harvested the comets down to 4 earlier in the year and HAD a beautiful 21" golden catfish that died the start of the feeding season this year and upon dissection looked like the stomack swelled up when the tetra food expanded in the stomach and apparently blocked the intestines cause they were empty. The pond was made in 1998 so thats how old the fish are. Thanks, Bruce I did notice they weren't eating their food! Bruce, Koi and goldfish both are egg layers. It sounds as if there was a spawn, but from your post, I doubt that it was the koi. Koi usually aren't old enough to spawn at 13". The koi would have lost most of its size during the spawn, not gotten bigger. The female koi will look really skinny following the egg laying. The act of spawning by koi, (I don't know about goldfish) is very violent. The male will be pushing and shoving the female against the sides of the pond, plant baskets or anything else, and you will think he is trying to push her out of the pond, no simple nudging. Usually for the first two or three days they eat the eggs as fast as they can. Between the milt from the male, which is nearly pure protein, and the additional load of eating, the ammonia level will go very high and burn the gills if not treated. The fish staying under the waterfall may be showing the signs of ammonia burns. Check the ammonia and if it is high, add amquel to bind the ammonia into the non-toxic ammonium. Since the filter changes the ammonia to nitrites, the nitrites will also go very high, and cause suffocation, by causing brown blood disease. Check the nitrites and if high, add salt to get a 0.1% salt level. Don't feed until all of the eggs are gone or hatched, such that you don't see them. I suspect the spawn was the comets. Good luck. |
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Please run the ammonia and nitrite tests. I would bet they are off the
scale meaning the water is toxic to the fish. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Bruce" wrote in message ... Great info, a couple more things. There was much chasing and splashing by these certain two koi. The water has gotten murky all of a sudden too. So looking to see this koi to check if she is skinnier will have to wait until after work today. The one koi did keep hitting the other broadside and following. On another note, I do have to many fish in my pond, but all has worked fine till this( meaning clear water) I have 5, 13"-14" koi I raised from 2-3". Also I harvested the comets down to 4 earlier in the year and HAD a beautiful 21" golden catfish that died the start of the feeding season this year and upon dissection looked like the stomack swelled up when the tetra food expanded in the stomach and apparently blocked the intestines cause they were empty. The pond was made in 1998 so thats how old the fish are. Thanks, Bruce I did notice they weren't eating their food! Bruce, Koi and goldfish both are egg layers. It sounds as if there was a spawn, but from your post, I doubt that it was the koi. Koi usually aren't old enough to spawn at 13". The koi would have lost most of its size during the spawn, not gotten bigger. The female koi will look really skinny following the egg laying. The act of spawning by koi, (I don't know about goldfish) is very violent. The male will be pushing and shoving the female against the sides of the pond, plant baskets or anything else, and you will think he is trying to push her out of the pond, no simple nudging. Usually for the first two or three days they eat the eggs as fast as they can. Between the milt from the male, which is nearly pure protein, and the additional load of eating, the ammonia level will go very high and burn the gills if not treated. The fish staying under the waterfall may be showing the signs of ammonia burns. Check the ammonia and if it is high, add amquel to bind the ammonia into the non-toxic ammonium. Since the filter changes the ammonia to nitrites, the nitrites will also go very high, and cause suffocation, by causing brown blood disease. Check the nitrites and if high, add salt to get a 0.1% salt level. Don't feed until all of the eggs are gone or hatched, such that you don't see them. I suspect the spawn was the comets. Good luck. |
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I got your post after a 35% water change and found my ammonia test kit I never used and the test came out to 3.0," fatal for sensitive species. Breakdown of nitrification." Are there any home remedies(chemicals) to fix this besides amquel as we are far from ANY pet type shop? Can, should I do another water change? Thanks for your help! Bruce Please run the ammonia and nitrite tests. I would bet they are off the scale meaning the water is toxic to the fish. |
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eggs in pond/more info
Bruce,
If your water is not treated with chloramines, then massive water changes will dilute the level significantly. Water treated with chloramines has ammonia in it, so it becomes very hard to reduce the ammonia level with water changes. If you can reduce pH to about 7.4, the ammonia becomes non-toxic, but if your pond is like mine with a pH of around 8, it means killing the carbonate hardness and the filter bacteria will suffer. In my pond, it took about 3 or 4 days for the ammonia to be consumed by the bacteria in the pond, but the nitrite spike took longer to get through. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Bruce" wrote in message ... I got your post after a 35% water change and found my ammonia test kit I never used and the test came out to 3.0," fatal for sensitive species. Breakdown of nitrification." Are there any home remedies(chemicals) to fix this besides amquel as we are far from ANY pet type shop? Can, should I do another water change? Thanks for your help! Bruce Please run the ammonia and nitrite tests. I would bet they are off the scale meaning the water is toxic to the fish. |
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