More info on the liner. we purchased the liner from breadhurst aquatics, it
was pre cut and in a bag without any manufacturers labels or information or
instructions. I am suspicious that it may not be pucker because of this but
at the time I trusted the supplier (why wouldn't I) since this I have seen
all the pre cut liners in my area at other aquatic shops which have all the
labels etc. we were told that it is PVC liner.

if you see all of my posts you can see that we will find out soon by testing
if its the liner. there is a slight possibility that we have contamination
from some industrial units behind out house.at that point I will be in touch
with trading standards or environmental health depending on how these last
few tests go.

"Andymcgoo" wrote in message
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The pond liner we are told is PVC.

I have a pump which takes water from one end to the other and enters the
other end via a spray bar. the oxygen levels are ok. these have been
checked.

The pond is raised so we do not get any contamination from any outside
source like plant food.

We have not used any plant, grass food or any other chemicals on out land
nor have our neighbours for several years.

Currently I am trying three tests. A local koi specialist is helping he is
also at a loss at to what the problems may be. we are down to 3 things
firstly the liner and secondly the water and thirdly the atmosphere. he
has supplied me with 6 fish for the following

test 1, I have the pond which has only the liner water (my water) and two
gold fish.
test 2, I have a second tank which has a butyl liner, water (my water) and
two gold fish kept in side this is to check for the atmosphere
and the third test is a bucket of water with 2 gold fish (the water being
what the 6 gold fish have been supplied with, this water is known to be ok
for fish to survive in) this will also check to wee if there is a problem
with the atmosphere.

I will report back with the results



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"Andymcgoo" wrote in message
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I have has a problem over the summer with plenty of dead fish. we have
had everything checked out even had pond doctors drink my pond water and
profess that they would stick their fish in that, when pressed of course
they didn't in fact put their fish in my water (so to speak) any way we
had to eliminate everything one by one right down to just the pond liner
and the water (difficult to test without the water) any way our fish
still kept dying. so we checked out just the water by putting fish in
just a plastic bucket. low and behold they live. SO WE HAVE A DODGY POND
LINER the suppliers recon there is nout wrong with it but as soon as you
put a fish near it the go all fins up.

Question has anyone else had pond liner problems?

What material is the liner made out of?