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| Several large goldfish and 1 huge bullfrog has died. We've had a lot of snow and the pond looks like it has a film on the water. What could it be? We've put the remaining fish in an aquarium with a pump and cleaned out the pond. What to do next??? |
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- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Fri, Mar 19, 10 at 2:31
| Hey Pam. You will get better results for this type of question if you post it on the Discussions side of this forum. We usually chatter about anything and everything except the pond on Conversations. I will try to get you started though. There are a lot of things that could have gone wrong and you really don't give us enough info to make even a wild guess. How old is the pond? How big is the pond? Did it freeze over this winter? Did you have an air bubbler going through the winter if you had ice? Did you have a hole in the ice? How many fish do you have in the pond? What kind of filter do you have? Do you have rocks on the bottom? Do you have a waterfall? Do you test your water? What kind of fish are they? How big is big for the fish? Is your pond close to a road? Was your pond cleaned out at the end of the season? Older ponds are usually more stable than new ponds. The possibilities for the frogs demise cover a lot of territory, too. It is possible that it was just its time to die. That is a possibility for the fish, too. I keep thinking of other possibilities, too. What can you add? |
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