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FAQs on Environmental Pondfish Disease,
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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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lightening strikes on mud pond
4/26/11
Are there pictures and information on the effects of lightening strikes
on Koi? Does it kill them instantly?
<Have seen and heard of accounts where there was mass death and none
observed. Sufficient grounding may well play a part here>
What happens if there is a flash freeze directly after?
<Don't know>
We had such weird weather patterns last fall and this spring is
terrible as well. One side of the top pond is shear rock. The bottom
pond had no fish losses, just the top pond with shallow spots. Any info
would be greatly appreciated
yours truly Annie
<Welcome. Bob Fenner>
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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