Hiding Fish and H2O is good..more details!
Thanks for all the help so far. I just came home from work and will look
over the responses and see what I can do tonight. Here are some of the details I left out..... 125 gallons Fish roll-call: 1 Fat comet (original from four years ago about four inches long) 2 Smaller comets (inch long,babys from a comet that was taken by Heron) 1 comet (about two inches) 1 Ghost Koi (about two inches long) Plant roll-call: 1 half gallon mexican magnoila (from what I'm told) 1/4 gallon Iris 1/4 gallon grass 1/4 gallon grass I treated the plants with AgSafe Aquatic-Tabs (Pond plant food) last week Filter: BioFilter 500 Pump (don't remember) Small 80 gph pump for added cirulation The pump is part of the fountain system I'm not sure what more information is needed. I have images, but they are on my work computer. Thanks for any more help. Kris KAuker "Kris Kauker" wrote in message om... I hope I can find some help here, I've read and posted a few messages here and there, so here it goes..... I have a 125 gallon (yeah, that's all) pond. It's been up a running for three years now. I added two comets a few weeks ago and a Butterfly Koi over a week ago. For the past week, all the fish have seem to be hidding in the corners of the pond or hiding together at the bottom of the pond. This weekend, I lost the Butterfly fish. This AM, I found one of the baby fish, about a year old flipped himself out of the pond and out onto the ground. Luckily, it must have just happened and I was able to place him back in the pond and I quickly got him into a bowl. I checked the all the levels with the following: Ammonia - 0.0 pH - 6.9 Nitrite - 0.0 Nitrate - 80! Yup, 80! I did some quick internet searching and came up with a water change. I changed 50% of the water and filled it back up and de-chlorinated the water. I also added some aquarium salt. The fish are doing a little better, but some are still hidding. I again checked the levels and all were the same except for the Nitrate that was down to 20. Any ideas on the problem? SHould I be more concerned about the water quality? This is the first major problem that I've had with the pond and I'm lucky to say that's all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kris Kauker kkauker at princeton dot edu |
Hiding Fish and H2O is good..more details!
I'd like to know what your buffering is, which requires a KH test or
testing the pH at dusk and dawn. A swing over .4 means you don't have enough buffering, and as mentioned, you can use simple baking soda to bring this up. Unstable pH will cause fish to hide, flash, jump out of the pond.... and many other stress indications, the worst being disease and death. Bring the pH slowly, add 1/8 to 1/4 cup wait several hours and check pH, if it has barely changed you'll have an idea how much you can add safely. Big change reduce, little change add more. You want your KH to be about 100 ppm (you will need a test kit to find out what it really is.) ~ jan See my ponds and filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:32:58 -0400, "Julia Kauker" wrote: Thanks for all the help so far. I just came home from work and will look over the responses and see what I can do tonight. Here are some of the details I left out..... 125 gallons Fish roll-call: 1 Fat comet (original from four years ago about four inches long) 2 Smaller comets (inch long,babys from a comet that was taken by Heron) 1 comet (about two inches) 1 Ghost Koi (about two inches long) Plant roll-call: 1 half gallon mexican magnoila (from what I'm told) 1/4 gallon Iris 1/4 gallon grass 1/4 gallon grass I treated the plants with AgSafe Aquatic-Tabs (Pond plant food) last week Filter: BioFilter 500 Pump (don't remember) Small 80 gph pump for added cirulation The pump is part of the fountain system I'm not sure what more information is needed. I have images, but they are on my work computer. Thanks for any more help. Kris KAuker "Kris Kauker" wrote in message . com... I hope I can find some help here, I've read and posted a few messages here and there, so here it goes..... I have a 125 gallon (yeah, that's all) pond. It's been up a running for three years now. I added two comets a few weeks ago and a Butterfly Koi over a week ago. For the past week, all the fish have seem to be hidding in the corners of the pond or hiding together at the bottom of the pond. This weekend, I lost the Butterfly fish. This AM, I found one of the baby fish, about a year old flipped himself out of the pond and out onto the ground. Luckily, it must have just happened and I was able to place him back in the pond and I quickly got him into a bowl. I checked the all the levels with the following: Ammonia - 0.0 pH - 6.9 Nitrite - 0.0 Nitrate - 80! Yup, 80! I did some quick internet searching and came up with a water change. I changed 50% of the water and filled it back up and de-chlorinated the water. I also added some aquarium salt. The fish are doing a little better, but some are still hidding. I again checked the levels and all were the same except for the Nitrate that was down to 20. Any ideas on the problem? SHould I be more concerned about the water quality? This is the first major problem that I've had with the pond and I'm lucky to say that's all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kris Kauker kkauker at princeton dot edu |
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