What killed Snow White?

[sissy]

your welcome it's just they want you to know when you post in a section that there is another comment .

 

[Koilady]

Thanks Sissy. In other forums if someone replies to something that you've written they send you an e-mail. LOL I hope you're understanding my ramblings. Anyway, on other sites they send you an e-mail concerning what someone else has written. On one site I get e-mails and they give you the thread but when you click on it, it doesn't turn blue and no matter how many times you click it, nothing happens.

Thanks again Sissy.

Your's Koily, Lorraine

 

[sissy]

your welcome

 

[Johnnie]

Please enlighten us . Putting water tests aside that picture tells us what about why that fish died ?

After the water test, I don't think toxins or germs killed Snow White. I think the powerful savor pump sucked in the koi and killed it :lol:.

My older Savior didn't get the safety feature like the newer one.

This newer Savior redesigns and provides "guard" to stop koi from getting sucked into the pump.


Update...after changing the water, 7 koi are happy as clams, swimming and playing around by the 4-nozzle-fountain:
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[Koilady]

Fish don't get sick and die over night. They can have symptoms for two weeks before they start to show any signs of septicemia or ulcers. I don't think that the conditions we've seen on your fish had anything to do with it being sucked into a pump.

Your's Koily, Lorraine

 

[CometKeith]

Koilady, Only hyperlinks can be clicked on. If they give you the address and you can't click on it then you need to copy and paste it into your browser and hit enter. To copy highlite it with your left mouse button and then click the right button and click copy, then right click again where you want to put it and hit paste.

 

[Koilady]

Hi Keith, thanks so much for the reply. I have done that and sometimes it comes up that the page is not available or sometimes it's something else. Keith, why wouldn't the site come up in the colour blue when you click on it so that you can get to a site?

Your's Koily, Lorraine

 

[Johnnie]

You know this is the biggest mistake most experienced ponders make. Not testing and thinking the fish will let you know is not one of the best ways to find out out your PH has dropped out and crashed. The fish will tell you, your right!, when you walk out and find a whole pond full of dead fish. PH crash can happen fast especially in warmer months. there is no way to tell it's going to happen with out testing the water. You can possibly see long term PH drop but a PH crash because of no buffering you won't get much of a warning, IF ANY. I will tell you by first hand experience with one of my own ponds and another a good friend of mine had that PH crash is not what you want to find out by the fish showing you. My pond crashed in 2007, I lost 14 fish in less than six hours. the PH dropped from 7.0 - to 5.6 in less than 24 hour period. My buddies pond did this in the summer of 2009. His pond was 7 years old and his smallest koi was just under 20" the largest about 26" all were floating dead and the only thing we could find was a PH reading of 6.2 and the GH at 0. Two days earlier they were spawning......:lol:

I went and did some searching for you on this, I found these two articles I thought might be of intrest. Both are copied from well know Koi farm/store sites. They are directly copied and have not been altered. If you would like I can try and send direct links to them but so as not to post advertisement I copied and pasted them. Hope this answers some questions....

... Any pH value below the neutral 7 is considered acidic. Baking soda or ground limestone will raise the pH level....

...At a ph of 5.5, koi will begin to die within a few days. If this happens you can easily raise the ph by simply adding baking soda to the water. Try adding one cup for every 1000 gallons and check it every two hours until the ph is back to at least 7.0...

...Lowering pH in a fish pond ... can be achieved by adding ... vinegar.

Fishin4cars, thanks for the above info and the warning about PH crash. For years I had thought that "fresh water" would put PH back to normal. What a MISTAKE! The cure for the PH problem is in my kitchen: Baking soda and Vinegar! By the way, I mixed up some baking soda with water and sprinkled the solution into my pond. It works... the PH has gone up overnight. Thankyou very much!