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by Hobolarry
Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:48 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: what type of young
Replies: 1
Views: 6924

what type of young

hi guys, I am curious if you could help me figure out what type of young fish I have in my pond. we have goldfish,ghosties,koi,leather carp,golden rudd and green tench in there so it is a big mixture! the young are nearly all the same with a brown colour on top and shiny yellowy/gold sides( look lik...
by Hobolarry
Sun May 31, 2009 8:55 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: urgent problem
Replies: 5
Views: 14236

Re: urgent problem

Hi, the fish are rubbing and have done a scrape but only found 1 fluke. Air is fine we have a big waterfall and a large surface area The pond is roughly 35,000 gallons All the fish are new to the pond ranging in age from Jaws (40 years old 32 inches) to tiddlers we took a sample of water to the loca...
by Hobolarry
Sat May 30, 2009 9:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: urgent problem
Replies: 5
Views: 14236

urgent problem

hi,
I have lost 5 largish koi over the last few day. I have done an ammonia and nitrie test and ph test.the nitrite and ammonia were normal but the ph was 8.4 is this far too high? how to I lower the pH?any suggestions helpful
thanks in advance
Hadyn
by Hobolarry
Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Hi, new to koi keeping
Replies: 3
Views: 9281

Re: Hi, new to koi keeping

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk195/hobolarry/100_6994-1.jpg i hope that works that is a picture of the shallower end is is less than a quarter of the overall surface area of the pond. To give you a better idea of size the white fish in the foreground is about a foot long. sorry its not the be...
by Hobolarry
Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:55 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Hi, new to koi keeping
Replies: 3
Views: 9281

Hi, new to koi keeping

Hi im Hadyn. we finished our pond a few months ago and until the other day only had about 10 goldfish in it. we travelled down to weston super mare to collect some fish(we live in gloucestershire) and ended up with about 10 14-18" ghost koi and various other goldfish and orfe. we have never rea...