k1jin
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May 20, 2007, 11:07 AM
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koi dead/ two survives, your help needed!!
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for some reason my family's koi pond has been contaminated by flowing cement water from a nearby yard work. i have lost one koi on the very day of the incident, and i lost another one today. it's been 3 days since the incident happened. Of four Kois that are older than myself, only two remains. i am doing the best to keep it that way.
i was not at the site at the moment so i don't know how much water has been replaced, but this morning i tested the water and all five six levels of qualit meter has been restored to normal level. i went to petsmart and applied 0.3% salt, poured in melafix solution to prevent bacterial infection.
the condition of the kois: they are moving around lazily, they are not sinkers yet but they are refusing to eat. they isolate themselves from the small gold fishes in my pond, sometimes idealing behind the plants.
The one koi that died this morning, this one named California, had redness behind the frontal fins, where the fin attaches to the body, and no other noticeable defects were found. it may have drank too much cement for the body to handle. i found it swimming with its head above the surface, just before going to the pet shop, and when i came back it was dead. it could've been internal infection. i don't know.
i am going back to the pet shop to get some sinkable pallets to encourage feeding. i have no plan of quaranteening the kois, since the water quality is not the issue anymore. but i may be wrong.
i have no extensive knowledge in treating kois, so i am very worried. Please let me know if there is something i should've done or i should do at this point. i don't want to see anymore of my pets to die.
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