Hello friendly Koi friends. I have a 2000 gallon pond with over sixty wonderful Koi fish. Can you guess what my problem is? I have an Ultima II Filter and Tsunami pump which can handle up to 30- 35 fish no problem. However, now with Sisty fish my Ammonia […]
In a message dated 7/14/2008 10:08:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jminn5702@yahoo.com writes:
I have a pond full of Koi and at Fleet farm its like a Menards they had a jug of this stuff to help get alge out of ponds. My pond is about 10,000 gallons. On […]
About 3 days ago I moved a few of my Rocks and was shocked by the amount of crud that had settled between them. As a result I spent the last two days removiong all my rocks with exception of my river beed area. With the flow of a stream […]
Is your tap water treated with chlorine or chloramine or is it natural, like from a spring, well or reservoir?
While using rain water might sound like a good thing, it’s not as good as it sounds since rain water lacks the minerals, trace elements, etc. that water (from the ground) has in it. It’s […]
Hi Jasmine,
It would probably be a good idea for you to take one or both of the free online fish keeping tutorials. If you go to my blog, then the “A to Z of Fish Keeping” page, you will see links to the fish keeping tutorials near the top of that page. They […]
Hi Brenda,
It sounds like you do a pretty good job taking care of your koi and pond, so I don’t think you need to worry too much about any big problems arising from the rocks in your pond. It’s best to have no rocks in a koi pond, …. BUT, they sure can […]
My solution - I took the filter out of the pump and put the pump back in the 12×12 milk crate pre-filter - hasn’t plugged up yet! Happy days.
BTW - My cat is scared of the fish, but LOVES to snack on their fish food =)
-Pam S.
MN
From: Ponds-Koi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ponds-Koi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Sent: Monday, […]
You do have a lot of fish! But as others have suggested, it’s probably all the algae that’s clogging it.
I don’t think I saw that anyone suggested not using a prefilter. Running your water straight from the pump to a basin filled with lava rocks and plants will […]
Got an interesting new clue today. this morning there was only one casualty. However it had a large amound of fungus growing on the top of its head.
Now is the fungas infection what is killing them. Or is it just what ever is making them weak has opened them […]
It’s good that you have a test kit and you are testing your water. And… you can almost never do too many partial water changes.
Fortunately, your pH is only 7.0 so that makes the ammonia less toxic to the fish but any ammonia isn’t a good thing. The higher the pH, the more […]