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Lucky you have observant neighbours! Having a low stocking rate is the best way to safeguard against equipment failure. If you do buy a spare...

Slow leaking concrete ponds will self seal over time. Algae, biofilm and silt work their way into fine cracks. Just be patient, use a float valve to...

Yeah, I think this would be my lesson. At this point asking someone to do a fiberglass would have been maybe only marginally more expensive, and SO...

This looks like it might be "brown spot disease". If so, the dark spot in the cyst is a Digenean Trematode, a type of fluke or flatworm. Digeneans...

You won't like this but I've used blockwork for fish ponds twice and they both leaked. I'd never use blocks for water ever again. However they are...

Beautiful!!!

Your Bananas are gorgeous

Thanks I just found a guy to take them he a pond rescue, he takes fish that nobody wants. When I get home I will buy some from him. It was 95 degrees...

Bananas have really grown a lot in a months time.

The first think that comes to mind is whether there is some means of aeration running for the fish, such as an air pump bubbling or a pump splashing...

Is it Hardy or Tropical?

Thanks. I am really doubtful it is the blockwork moving... the blockwork is solid, mortared, filled in block with rebar horizontal and vertical every...

Your water looks amazingly clean so obviously and your Koi has grown a huge amount in a short time, so obviously things are working well. I agree...

That makes sense. I wish I had been so lucky. It took a lot of work to get rid of those 80 fry. My single large female core spawn this morning and...

That reminds me of my marine aquarium long ago. Fish would occasionally present themselves to the little cleaner wrasse so it could pick things off...

In many years of owning fish in fairly small systems and having spawns each year... only 4 fish have ever survived to adulthood. I sold 3 of them and...

I don't think KOI need to be able to see flukes or parasites. It's fairly eaay to a fish to ask other fish to scrape itchy areas they can't reach by...

That's not a good update. Perhaps you need to wait the full 30 days for crystalline expansion? If XYPEX isn't working, I suspect your blockwork is...

Yes I figured Kai was female but wasn't sure. I will definitely watch out. Kai is the most peaceful Koi. She never bullies or bothers the goldfish at...

I’ve seen other types of aquarium fish bite each others’ tails and fins. But I don’t recall ever seeing koi do that.

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Hi all, Thanks for the advice. I spent some time with the xypex rep, and he was telling me that I will need to remove the entire megamaix I...

Hi! Kai sounds lovely. In 500 gallons, one koi might be okay for now, but koi grow big and need lots of space, more than goldfish. Long term, she may...

The video from the side appears to show the thicker part of this koi's body extending toward the back and then suddenly getting much more narrow 3 or...

Goldfish can coexist peacefully with Koi. There should be no problems. But if you have more than one goldfish and they are of the opposite sex, you...

https://youtu.be/GRdlf2XPPgU?si=c5kOiLdUD1Xo1M9C Kai is still growing very quickly and is probably about 20" or so I would say now. He is *huge*...