On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:44:14 -0600, "~ Windsong ~" P@P wrote:


"Anthropy" wrote in message
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Please help.
We have a pond, about 3 x 4 x 4 (feet). We've had it for about 5 years
and everything was great. It contains about 40 goldfish but recently
they have begun dying. The dead ones are small and ....
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That's an awful lot of goldfish for such a small pond. To make it worse you
don't have aeration or a filter. They may be suffocating. How much "gunk"
is on the bottom of this pond? The water may be foul and stagnant.

Carol.... the frugal ponder...
"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die."
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Hi all and thanks for your help.
Firstly no fish have died in 5 days, hooray, and the remaining fish
look healthy and hungry but I am not feeding them, at all.
here are the results of the pond water test. The test is called Tetra
Pond Test and it does pH, KH, GH, NO2, NO3,

pH = 7.2
KH = Between 0.d - 3.d
GH = 10.d
NO2 = 0
NO3 = 0
(The "dot" is instead of a small circle, degrees I think? which isn't
on my keyboard)

According to the instructions on the box all is OK with the water.
Maybe some more food plants for the water and fish are needed however
I still don't know why the other fish died and that's worrying.
We ran two tests and the results of the second were slightly different
to the first so the validity of the test could be called into
question.
Thanks for the help.