Journal Freds new pond build

[frederick thompson]

Upper pond. Lily s far side and rushes at the back

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[frederick thompson]

Some of the fish. Water crystal clear. Put half dose of CA in to keep algi down for the year. Changed 2x uv bulbs out. For year.
Emptyed nexus 320 of all K1 and pond vac the nexus out.
Also pond vac pond floor.

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QT and grow on. Have two fish in the QT grow on . The showa koi is in there now a week. Had a bit of finrot. And a ulcer. Knocked him out last week trimmed his dorsil fin and flipper fins with scissor s. Then put diluted paste PP on the ends. Treat his ulcer with antibac. Powder and seal. Then cranked the heat up to 25c. Also put salt in tank to help healing at 0.03 coming along nicely.

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Also you can see my chagoi in above photo he has been in tank for 5 weeks. One ulcer and a bit of finrot. Healing good. He will be going back in pond next week.

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The next photos are of a small koi i am growing. Its been in there 2 weeks now. Its grown an inch. 6 feeds a day. Small feeds. Also 2 blue orfs. They have grown 2 inch in 6 weeks.
All the best fred

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Chagoi is fixed and back in the pond.
My big showas ulcer is just about repaired in QT. Give him another two weeks. I could nt stop it eating away at him. So i went to extremes. And gave him a 10 minute bath in pp. Then the next week a 5 minute bath. Then salt bathed him at 0.3 then next day upped it to 0.6 salt in my Qt. Been like that all the time. Its worked as he has white skinned over. You should nt pp koi but had no choice. He would have died.

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If you blow photos up you can see the wound.
And the white one had finrot and mouth rot. Trimmed the fins. Then coated with diluted pp. 1/4 teaspoon full to half a cup of water. Thed syringed some into mouth. Fully healed now. Also been in 0.6 salt in QT.

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Here some of my 9 new little ones. Going to grow them on in Qt at 25.5c heat plus 4 or 5 feeds a day. Stay in QT growon for at least a year.

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All the best fred

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My upper pond how its develops on the plant side of things.
All the best fred

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decided to clean pond out with pressure gun last week. as i had the dreaded black algi. it has like an oiy substance to it.
After using cba once. And resolve. Decided to have a proper go of getting rid of the black slimey stuff. Phormidium or Black Slimey Algae ... is actually a Cyanobacteria.
Fish all came out the pond wash gun came out. Fish eye balled and scrutinised.
Scrubbed and pressure washed down. only way to get rid is lots of light and lots of air. chemicals will not touch it.

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so emptied and washed down started catching fish, it turned out into a game. i was 8 foot down in
the pond and my grandson was taking fish off me to put into vat. then buckets of water started to
come over ha ha, he bleeding loved it. but yours truely never.

After clean and start of fill
Put the rudd tench grass carp goldfish back in. Koi going in after filter ran a while.
ST went in as i went along. to get rid of chlorine

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[frederick thompson]

upper pond filled cascading into lower pond

that was during the 10 days now my green algi has come back. i am glad to say no black algi
its the reverse of green algi. green needs light this needs shade. so put loads of light plus lots of air.
i read up on it from people who have defeated this.. it burns. one person put it on her lawn to get rid next day
removed it and the grass was dead. also two of the people came out with burn like rashes. forrible stuff.
i think this might have had something to do with my fish fin rot and mouth rot. it aint come back.so fingers crossed
all the best fred

 

[mort]

There's a lot of work there Fred. Looks like you had nice weather for it and fingers crossed it does the job. Still gave you a good chance to check them all over closely.

 

[frederick thompson]

There's a lot of work there Fred. Looks like you had nice weather for it and fingers crossed it does the job. Still gave you a good chance to check them all over closely.

Hello mort. Yeah mate. They reckon it comes back fuzzy black and not green. Mine is all fuzzy green again so cracked it. Like you say there all checked over now. Just a couple with mild finrot. I will sort them when the other couple in the qt are back in the pond. Take care mort . Fred.

There's a lot of work there Fred. Looks like you had nice weather for it and fingers crossed it does the job. Still gave you a good chance to check them all over closely.

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Morning Marcel zozo. Hope your well bud.
Some photos of pond and plants this morning. Water is milky colour. Added clover leaf blanket answer. Cba. To keep on top of algae. Here is some photo s.
Should take about 5 to 6 days to go crystal clear. Also chagoi in window. After i fixed his ulcers and finrot

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Hope your well ian _m

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Thanks gpaul

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Good day to all. Glad to say i healed my large 29 inch showa. And the mouth finrot scaleless doitsu. There both back in the main pond. Only my 10 little ones in qt growon tank now.

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To heal them took about six pp dips over a 6 week period in my QT. Also with 0.6 % salt. Heat 25c .Both had bad finrot. A nd showa had 2x massive ulcers. Took time but got there in the end. Had to bring heat down to equalise with the pond.

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