Having been rather chuffed at not losing any fish over the winter I spoke to a friend too soon the other day about it. This is the time though that they get stressed, sounds odd fish getting stressed I mean whats stressful about swimming around in circles? Seriously though its something to do with not feeding all winter and then all the bugs starting to grow again as the water warms up.
So at the moment we have lost one small (2 1/2inches) koi which was part of half a dozen left over from a spawn late 2010 early 2011.
We have tried all the potions to keep the stress levels down in previous years but nothing seesm to work and we laways lose a few. Now trusting in nature and our clean water regime.
So tomorrow its hacking all the water plants down a size or two then hoovering out all the gunk thats on the bottom of the pond. After that I shall put in my second pump and home made filter which worked a treat late summer and autumn last year.
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