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Poll please - Fish DOA or in a few weeks.
Continuing the topic of the likelihood of newly introduced GF or Koi dying
within the first year. Whilst I understand the desirability of having a 100 gallon QT tanks, heaters keeping them for a year in these tanks and virtually turning your small garden into a fish importers quarantine industrial estate (I exaggerate for effect - but you know what I mean). Its all very well to buy, sterilise, fill, heat, keep a watch on, maintain, fence have the fish die anyway, etc etc, but I have got a proper job and house to rebuild to keep me busy, and I don't have any room for tanks. The cost and effort put into running the QT tanks needs to be assessed against the likely hood of the newly introduced fish dying, or more worrying, existing stocks dying. The POLL:- Just how many fish have people in this newsgroup bought, and have died in the first, say, year? Both with and without using quarentee procedures. And how many times have existing stocks been killed of by diseases carried by the newcomer? I'll start it off. I have added 10 Koi, in 5 batches over 5 years, 8 GF in 4 batches over 5 years, 2 grass carp, 2 golden tench. All added as tiddlers. The grass carp are 12 inches long, and the Koi range from 12 to 16 inches long. Deaths: first occurrence this year, 1 out of 1 3 inch tiddler Koi added. seemed very happy for the first 3 weeks then poof! without any warning. Purchased in the autumn. 1 off 16 inch Koi died out of the blue, over a year after the addition of any newcomer. I suspect that this is very typical of pond life and death, whether quarantining or not - but lets find out. Over to you. I also lost 2 starlets (dwarf stergeon) but a fish importer told me that they are not suitable for ponds, they like rivers. |
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