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PP isnt deadly toxic to Goldfish! its one of the recommended treatments for them and common in many Goldfish over the counter treatments Hence its recomended use on many goldfish sites http://www.goldfishconnection.com/articles/details.php?articleId=87&parentId=5 http://www.ponddoc.com/WhatsUpDo...

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The salt hasnt gone in yet, but yes I think I will just sit it out. Pretty certain the remaining 5 bloaters will not survive longterm.

Will just carry on keeping an eye on the others and weekly scrapes to make sure

Lost a Goldie this morning Did a Autopsy. Was full of yellow fluid (urine?) and a lot of viceral fat. Kidneys were huge. So Kidney failure definately cause of death. Now its either due to obesity (They scoff the koi food!) or the MGF, PP and Flubenol treatments nuked them (did leave the usual gap an...

Update The FMG and Flube treatments have wiped out the Costia and Flukes. Koi scrapes are all clear as are goldfish But now I have 6 Goldfish that are very bloated, have dropsy and their bellies are going yellow (not red) and they loose attitude control, some float tail out of water, one lays on sid...

Hi, not been on for a while as all been running very well in my pond for a while now Till this summer. Started a month or 2 back, saw a koi flash, scrapped and found Trich. Nuked it with PP, scraped and all seemed clear. Then about 3 weeks after that saw another flash, again it was trich and this ti...

LOL, I tried the cat litter and laterite anaerobic filters this summer, The cat litter just dissolved and I had a TDS of 1440 for a week!. Fish loved the murk! I hated cleaning the sponges after that (Thats why they are being replaced by Static K1 as we speak)

Shade from plants at one end and 6ft deep at tother. If its really bright and hot I'll put something over one end for shade, but nobodies got sunburnt yet

PH 7.8, Pond in FULL sunlight and maxa t 24 in summer on very hot days (lots of air going in), Its heated so down to 6C in winter. Reds seem to come out in summer and blacks in winter

I shutdown the main airated K1 filter line for an hour when PPing, leave the Tickle tower on for O2. UV off

520 from tap and 440 in pond. Only thing I notice is that blacks tend to fade a little in the summer.

Yep and thats why they like small bubbles, More surface area per unit volume But us marine keepers also use our protein skimmers as an ozone introduction and off gassing point, hence newer skimmers use media and tumble the water down through it in an updraft of ozone for part of the skimmers length ...

Us marine folks use wood airstone for fine bubbles in protein skimmers because they have more surface area for protein to stick to. BUT small bubbles are NOT better for gas exchange for two reasons, 1) Surface tension is much higher in small bubbles so its effectively harder for gas to pass through ...

the bubbles dont get the air into the water, they drag the water up from the bottom and circulate it. the air dissloves in at the surface.

I have 60 lpm going into K1 60 lpm going into the deep end of the pond 50 lpm going into the bottom of my Trickle tower with 5000 lpm of flow going over it All into a 10,000 litre / 2000 gallon pond wth a high stock level Water always at suturation for the temp. I have overkill but that allows for f...

But for those of us that also keep marines and corals, then anearobic filters are quite normal and well established. Live sand and live rock are all just natural examples of the BHM media where you have aerobic activity on the outside and anearobic on the inside. Even the Eheim wet/dry filters use t...