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FAQs on Environmental Pondfish Disease, Electrical Causes
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When there is a suspicion of stray
electrical current, DO NOT step into or place your hand in the water...
Get, use a simple volt meter.
ALL electrics that deal with the pond
(pumps, lights, timers, UV's...) MUST be GFI/GFCI protected.
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Pond goldfish bent in half - 05/21/2006
Hi. I live in Florida and have about a 300 gal. water pond. Temp is
around 75. On Friday I noticed that the water had gotten so low that the pump
had quit.
<...>
I immediately added enough water (not too much) to get the pump started again.
Then I noticed that one of my beautiful fancy tailed goldfish - older - about 3
years old- was laying in the bottom of the pond. I picked him up thinking he
was dead from lack of oxygen. He wasn't dead, but was bent in half. I started
the aerator also and put him in the upper pond by himself. He somehow got back
down to the lower pond. It is now Sunday - he's still alive - still bent in half
at the bottom of the pond. He flaps his little flippers but pretty much just
goes in circles. I have just got him an 11 gal hospital tank and put him in it
and started him on antibiotics. What is wrong with him?
<? Perhaps just low water... poor, changeable water quality... malnutrition,
pathogenic disease, stray electrical current, genetic/developmental
expression... many possibilities>
P.S. Got a new fish which I added to the pond about 3 weeks ago. None of the
other fish (total of 6) are sick. What else can I do?
<Read... on WWM and elsewhere re proper care of this system, its occupants. Bob
Fenner>
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