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Koi Flashing This late in season
I saw my largest Koi jumping up out of the water 3 or 4 times in a row
from my window. I am in zone 5 and have already removed my filter and stopped feeding (it was in the 20s a couple of night already). Now, we are having an Indian Summer and it is in the 60s again. Water temp is around 50. Should I treat with PP as I would normally do mid-season? I am not sure about treating w/o filtration. I know for PP the filter is removed during active period so maybe it doesn't matter. |
Before any other treatments, be sure of water quality. Even though the fish
have stopped eating, they will still produce ammonia, and with the warm days they may be suffering from high ammonia. As they slow down more, the amount of ammonia production drops significantly and the bacteria on the liner etc. will keep it under control. As for treating with PP, one of the benefits of PP is that it is not temperature sensitive, as is formalin. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "MC" wrote in message om... I saw my largest Koi jumping up out of the water 3 or 4 times in a row from my window. I am in zone 5 and have already removed my filter and stopped feeding (it was in the 20s a couple of night already). Now, we are having an Indian Summer and it is in the 60s again. Water temp is around 50. Should I treat with PP as I would normally do mid-season? I am not sure about treating w/o filtration. I know for PP the filter is removed during active period so maybe it doesn't matter. |
Water checked out okay. Fish looks okay. I haven't seem him do that
again. Could it have been something that temporarily got lodged in his gill or something? wrote in message ... check the pH. and eye ball your fish looking for dull slime coats, sores. Ingrid (MC) wrote: I saw my largest Koi jumping up out of the water 3 or 4 times in a row from my window. I am in zone 5 and have already removed my filter and stopped feeding (it was in the 20s a couple of night already). Now, we are having an Indian Summer and it is in the 60s again. Water temp is around 50. Should I treat with PP as I would normally do mid-season? I am not sure about treating w/o filtration. I know for PP the filter is removed during active period so maybe it doesn't matter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
The fish will sometimes pickup something off the bottom of the pond, or a
pellet of food and have it go into the gills and have to do aerial acrobatics to dislodge it. Glad to here it was temporary. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "MC" wrote in message om... Water checked out okay. Fish looks okay. I haven't seem him do that again. Could it have been something that temporarily got lodged in his gill or something? wrote in message ... check the pH. and eye ball your fish looking for dull slime coats, sores. Ingrid (MC) wrote: I saw my largest Koi jumping up out of the water 3 or 4 times in a row from my window. I am in zone 5 and have already removed my filter and stopped feeding (it was in the 20s a couple of night already). Now, we are having an Indian Summer and it is in the 60s again. Water temp is around 50. Should I treat with PP as I would normally do mid-season? I am not sure about treating w/o filtration. I know for PP the filter is removed during active period so maybe it doesn't matter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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