Water Gardening: fish acting weird, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
Linda

I totally believe you. I just makes sense when there are things other 'water' in the water, it is going to change the properties and consistencies of the water. My brother was a swimmer and I never asked him about that type of thing, but I noticed on occasion the water would look 'thick' and we all know on this forum that just the water temperature will affect the oxygen content of the water.

We ended up putting in a pressure filter and will be getting another one this coming year. There will be a total of 4 uv lights running when we put in the 2nd pressure filter. We also dumped the entire pond. I know the experts tell you that you are not supposed to do that, but we were getting nowhere and really did not want to put the fish to 'sleep' in that cruddy water. We did not feel it was healthy for the fish to be in that water any longer than they already had been....

One other thing, our pond is at the highest level in the yard - so we don't get the run off from the rain on the house, or the yard or anything. And we had not had this particular problem in previous years. I am so glad there is a place such as Foster and Smiths tech support for this type of thing. We have utilized this service a number of times over the years....

Here is my pond, just starting to be filled after dumping the entire 4850 gallons....My poor fish didn't know what to make of it - they were in the prefab pond you can just see the edge of to the far right in the picture...