Simply Koi and More Koi

Hi Syd

Yes mate, that is a tumour - but neither on the spleen or the intestine!???

I'll post some more photos and Dunc's opinion on the COD in a couple of days, just in case anyone else wants to hazard a guess over the weekend.

Cheers

Bob

Hi All This little Kohaku (8"-9") was showing signs of dropsy for about a week to 10 days, but was still swimming and feeding with the others. Fed on the Monday and it was swimming OK, went out Tuesday morning and it was laid alongside the BD dead. Thought I'd try to see if I could identif...

Hi I've been looking for some aluminium tape to seal the top edge of some polycarbonate sheets. Easy enough to find in 10m rolls, but either expensive, or pretty cheap but with extortionate P&P charges to add on. Eventually found this place http://www.tapes-direct.co.uk/index.php?main_page=produ...

One of the old Chiltern members used to run his pond on nothing but rain water! :shock: If I remember correctly, the first chamber of his filter system also acted as the rainwater collection chamber, and the second chamber was filled with oyster/clam/cockle shells to provide some calcium for the pon...

kimr wrote: oh happy days are coming

And a few very nice koi too judging by the photos last night!

Don't forget you have witnesses to those promises Bob made Kim!

Hope it all continues to go well for you.

Cheers

Bob

Hi Graham Please ignore the first sentence of my original reply - it's cobblers! :oops: It doesn't make any difference to the gallonage of the pond, but just to clarify what I should have said: The second dial from the left reads thousandths of a cubic meter, not thousandths of a litre - i.e. it rea...

Hi Graham The second dial from the left (x 0.001) reads mililitres (ml). So, to the nearest ml, it looks like 21.680 cubic meters. Multiply that by 220 and you have the answer in gallons - i.e. 4769.6 gallons. For treatments etc. I'd think a round figure of 4800 gallons would be accurate enough. Che...

Bizarrely, I think you`ll find that `cats`are classed as being wild animals, and allowed the freedom to roam where they will. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I suspect they are pets, every bit as much as our koi, dogs, rabbits, ducks etc. - it's just that the average cat owner doesn't give a toss f...

If I can ask a not so "tongue in cheek" question, but one that really grates on me? My koi are in a raised pond which is enclosed on three sides and covered by polycarb, and I have secure fencing all round (mostly at least 6ft high) with trees and shrubs etc giving extra security. So, who ...

Manky Sanke wrote: There are moves afoot to ban the selling of any animal over the Internet to unknown buyers.

Hi Syd

How is it likely to affect the private hobbyist who just wants to move on a couple of koi? Most of us use the internet and don't know potential buyers.

Cheers

Bob

Hi Chris

Thanks for the tip, and well worth a try - but no colour coming off the small amount of glass I can reach.

I suppose that should be worth a , but I'm still and instead!

Any other suggestions greatly appreciated guys.

Cheers

Bob

Hi Gazza Must admit that the thought had crossed my mind too! However, when I thought about it a bit more, if I did have styrene leaching from the fibreglass or any other chemical contamination, I'd have expected to see an improvement after the big water changes (75-80% first time and 95%+ last time...

Hi Chris many thanks for taking the trouble to post. :D I suspect that I saw the same post on koimag, was it the one recommending alfagrog? Anyway, I already had a TT running with biomaze, but because of the results others seemed to be getting with Alfagrog, I added a mixture of grog and Blagdon cer...

Hi Syd Sorry mate, I should have made it c;ear in the original post, but I'm still stressing about the symptoms that caused me to start this thread http://www.koiquest.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=11784 The water tests are the latest route I've taken to try to resolve the red fins and lethar...

Hi Syd

Many thanks for the info mate - but the telephone chat was really necessary to make sure I understood it properly!

Cheers

Bob