On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:09:13 GMT, Anthropy wrote:

Another fish was dead this morning. I noticed it looking poorly
yesterday. When I took it out the pond it's eyes were white and it
had a red patch on its underside. Once again, one of the small ones.
The other fish look fine.

It sounds like you have a bacterial infection. Do you have a wet and
dry vacuum cleaner? They are too powerful to clean the bottom of a pond
normally but if you could restrict the inlet pipe somehow to decrease
the flow you might just be able to suck the muck up from the bottom.

About the best treatment you can get in the UK is a combination of
PimaFix and Melafix from API. This combination can treat both internal
and external bacteria. You can only get antibiotics from a vet. PimaFix
was only released last year and I haven't had to try it so I don't have
any personal recommendation but it does sound as if you have an
internal bacterial infection and it's one of the things that thrive in
colder water and MelaFix on it's own won't help with an internal
infection although it is very good for external ones.

We're also going to remove some and take them to the pond in the local
park. Would it be better to remove the big ones or the smaller ones?

You mustn't take fish and put them anywhere else without permission. A
lot of fish that we used to be able to keep in the UK are now banned
because people have been dumping them.

You fish are ill and you could just spread this illness to those in the
park pond if you put them in even with the councils permission and that
could wipe out the fish already in there.

Goldfish don't survive long in native waters. They aren't camouflaged
like native fish so are an easy target for predators.

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