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My fish are crazy
My pond is about 1300 gallons (just a swag.. might be more or less) and
I have lots of goldfish and kio in there. When I setup the pond i only put maybe 6 goldfish and 3 or 4 kio in there and now I have many many more. In past years I have removed some of the babies to help control the population but the pond still seems to have more fish then would be generally recommended. Like I said... the fish are crazy. If I stand near the pond the fish will all hide at the bottom, and usually wait until I walk away to eat if I put food it. I just got the pump and filter running early this week and the water is starting to clear up a bit. (it's been dark green). I checked the usual suspects, Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH ~ 7.5. everything seems like it should be good. I haven't had any fish show up dead that I know of. I thought about pumping a bunch on water out and cleaning out the bottom and getting all the alge off the sides of the pond but is it possible that I am causing some emotional trauma to the fish by doing so? Maybe they are upset about me romoving their babies? Any thoughts about what might be wrong with there fish? |
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Fish will act skittish anytime there is something
out of the ordinary for them. That would be - netting out unwanted fish, an attack by a predator (heron, raccoon, snake, kingfisher), something falling into the pond, basically anything that disturbs their world. Sounds like the water was murky and now clearing up. They are probably feeling vunerable from the surface. Cleaning the pond will be traumatic, no way around it but not cleaning it could be worse. Also I would not clean the algae off the sides, substrate algae like that is part of the pond's natural balance. kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com new entry ~ herons |
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In my case, a little bird the size of a Sparrow could cause
that kind of problem. Eddypilot wrote: My pond is about 1300 gallons (just a swag.. might be more or less) and I have lots of goldfish and kio in there. When I setup the pond i only put maybe 6 goldfish and 3 or 4 kio in there and now I have many many more. In past years I have removed some of the babies to help control the population but the pond still seems to have more fish then would be generally recommended. Like I said... the fish are crazy. If I stand near the pond the fish will all hide at the bottom, and usually wait until I walk away to eat if I put food it. I just got the pump and filter running early this week and the water is starting to clear up a bit. (it's been dark green). I checked the usual suspects, Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH ~ 7.5. everything seems like it should be good. I haven't had any fish show up dead that I know of. I thought about pumping a bunch on water out and cleaning out the bottom and getting all the alge off the sides of the pond but is it possible that I am causing some emotional trauma to the fish by doing so? Maybe they are upset about me romoving their babies? Any thoughts about what might be wrong with there fish? |
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