Maya & Inka's mommy
06-22-2009, 06:17 AM
Yesterday will always be on our mind as POND-DRAMA-day!!
This is what happened...........
Because of a huge blunder, all our fishes are dead or dying...!My hubby added a product to the water to fight the "wire algae". On the packing was also written that it was good to disinfect the gills of all fishes. So he assumed that this product was harmless for them.... .He was so satisfied because if this that he forgot that he already added another product to the water 1 week ago, something that only mentioned it would fight the algae!! Result: the product did indeed fight the algae, but it also lowered the oxygen-level of the pound enormously:eek:
By the time that we noticed that a few koi's came to the surface because they were gasping for breath, the oxygen level had dropped so dramatically that it was desastrous for all fishes... .
We made the double fountain sprinkle continuously all day and night. Bernard also emptied the water to 1/3, and then refilled the pound with fresh oxygen-rich water. He put several fishes in our bath and stayed up all night to hold them (they turned on their side all the time) while he put on the whirlpool. No use, in the morning these fishes were dead too.
On the attached pics you can see some gasping for air, then dead fish in a plastic tank, and the dead sturgeon in our bad. You can see how huge that sturgeon was!
Result: Have died already: 3 fantastic and huge sturgeons (all more than 1 meter!!), 5 huge Japanese koi, several goldfishes and "winde" (no translation known).
Together they are worth a small fortune!!
We are so devastated. Bernard always took such good care of our pond and was so proud with his big healthy fishes!!
TERRIBLE.......
Today Bernard had to go to Amsterdam all day (by express-train->2 hours). I know he left reluctantly... !
I feel so terrible and down!! Some of these fishes are her since nearly 8 years ago, so we got really attached to them. These koi's and sturgeons are unpayable now, because of their size......
Who knows how many more dead fishes we will find in the days yet to come :eek: :(
This is what happened...........
Because of a huge blunder, all our fishes are dead or dying...!My hubby added a product to the water to fight the "wire algae". On the packing was also written that it was good to disinfect the gills of all fishes. So he assumed that this product was harmless for them.... .He was so satisfied because if this that he forgot that he already added another product to the water 1 week ago, something that only mentioned it would fight the algae!! Result: the product did indeed fight the algae, but it also lowered the oxygen-level of the pound enormously:eek:
By the time that we noticed that a few koi's came to the surface because they were gasping for breath, the oxygen level had dropped so dramatically that it was desastrous for all fishes... .
We made the double fountain sprinkle continuously all day and night. Bernard also emptied the water to 1/3, and then refilled the pound with fresh oxygen-rich water. He put several fishes in our bath and stayed up all night to hold them (they turned on their side all the time) while he put on the whirlpool. No use, in the morning these fishes were dead too.
On the attached pics you can see some gasping for air, then dead fish in a plastic tank, and the dead sturgeon in our bad. You can see how huge that sturgeon was!
Result: Have died already: 3 fantastic and huge sturgeons (all more than 1 meter!!), 5 huge Japanese koi, several goldfishes and "winde" (no translation known).
Together they are worth a small fortune!!
We are so devastated. Bernard always took such good care of our pond and was so proud with his big healthy fishes!!
TERRIBLE.......
Today Bernard had to go to Amsterdam all day (by express-train->2 hours). I know he left reluctantly... !
I feel so terrible and down!! Some of these fishes are her since nearly 8 years ago, so we got really attached to them. These koi's and sturgeons are unpayable now, because of their size......
Who knows how many more dead fishes we will find in the days yet to come :eek: :(