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New fish dying off - Help diagnose
I built a new pond in May and added four gold fishies soon after. They were
all doing quite well, until the local cat snagged one (Scarecrow stopped working). So about a week ago I added four new gold fishies (Lionheads). These are the same type as the original (Walmart specials), but they were considerably smaller than the existing fish, who eat like piggies. The new fish were also a different colour, two were almost all silver with gold spots and one was silver with speckles, no gold. I let the new fish adjust to the water temp before I added them to the pond, but did not adjust the PH. The first new fish died within two days, laying on the bottom and not eating. It ignored the other fish or they ignored him? The second new fish (speckled) was active for a while, but did not eat and did not associate with the other fish. Found him wedged under a rock on the bottom of the pond this morning. It had a whitish coating on its body and eyes. The third fish has always hung out with the other fish and eats like a horse. The pond is about 300+ gallons, with water lillies, water hyacynth, small fountain and waterfall. I have an external filter with UV light, so there is no floating algea just surface algea. The PH runs a little high, but not too bad. Any ideas what might have caused this? Will it spread to the other fish? Could it be an air bladder infection? |
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