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This koi is changing a lot after 5 months. Will it be a female?

Thanks fly4koi

Do not use melafix, are all you fish having issue? If so, you need to treat your main pond with 3x BSDT + 2x fluke-M, you should treat it with the...

My home came with an Aquascape style pond of about 1400 gallons. In order to get an accurate take on the exact volume, I had to do the salt test with...

Melafix is a tea tree oil. While it may appear to sooth, it really doesn’t have healing properties and it coats gills making it harder for the...

It would appear you have introduced either one, of two types of bacterium which cause ulcers,lesions and mouth rot in fish. They are the...

Congratulations on such good growth for a rather cold climate and for keeping most of them healthy for so long. A very beautiful group!

water parameters? how many fish and sizes? How large/gallons in pond?

I would say the fish load is heavy but the abundance of plants, filtering/filter cleaning and weekly water changes is keeping the pond within good...

Yes I have the 4 koi with ulcers in the quarantine tank. I'm concerned about the bio filtration for the quarantine tank. I basically took one of the...

You’ve added more fish I’m wondering about your fish load. Are you doing regular 10% water changes and do you have a testing kit?

The white is healing, but that one on the head is bad. Good job. Looking good ? If you can catch the fish from the pond and treat them, but it’s...

Beautiful Koi :like:

Haven’t posted in a while … Year 14! Lots of biomass in this pond, which requires a fair amount of rigor and overengineering to maintain, but it’s...

Technically the plants prefer ammonia over nitrate but that's another long conversation, anyhow, having them consuming the nitrogen and removing the...

Thank you so much Matt24! Much appreciated!

Big thank you to Matt24 for his generous donation It’s Appreciated!

Thanks, have learned a lot from you and others who have taken the time to offer help. I can see the cycle here, bacteria converts ammonia to...

0 nitrate is great, I would just rake out the algae floating at the top of the pond, that's a great way to remove nitrogen out of the water system,...