John & Carol, Wow do you have a project. That is far more than I would ever
endeavor. It looks big enough to be your own lake. My pond is a puddle next
to yours. Sorry to hear about your fish loss. But guess you learned about a
new disease from the whole ordeal. Thanks for sharing your projects.Kc
"johnrutz" wrote in message
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--as some of you all remember last month I was hit with bacterial gill
disease, and was loosing my Koi
well its been over 6 weeks since i started treating the disease, at that
point i still had 115 Koi as of today I have 11 left. 4 of which
are my original Koi (all butterflies that I have had for 4 yrs now) one
is the sole survivor of the new fish i bought this spring and 6 are
standard non fancy Koi about 8 in long that I got 2 yrs ago
seems the older butterflies were able to not get the BGD and the ones
that have ben lost had it in various degrees, the ones that had it the
worst of course were the first to die off, the ones Im losing now didn't
get it so bad but still bad enough to weaken them to fall to other
problems of Koi such as heart attack Im guessing this as some are fine
one minute and floating the next I can see minimal gill damage in all
these so problems processing oxygen seem to be the main factor

this was a disease I had not heard about or I might have been able to
treat it earlier and save more of my fish and of course if I hadnt been
so overpopulated I wouldnt have been hit so dang hard I had 80 or so
more Koi than I thought I had



John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

never miss a good oportunity to shut up

see my pond at:

http://www.fuerjefe.com