New Koi hassling goldfish is this normal?

I have a gold fish pond with over a dozen large goldfish. Today I
added a small koi (he is smaller than most of the goldfish). He seems
to be making a pest out of himself, mouthing at the other fishes
sides, getting in their way. I had a few Koi a long time ago and I
don't remember this behaviour. Do I have an antisocial fish or is he
trying to get Koi like behaviour out of my goldfish? Any comments
would be appreciated.


steve

did you add that fish without quarantine? Ingrid

(steve) wrote:

I have a gold fish pond with over a dozen large goldfish. Today I
added a small koi (he is smaller than most of the goldfish). He seems
to be making a pest out of himself, mouthing at the other fishes
sides, getting in their way. I had a few Koi a long time ago and I
don't remember this behaviour. Do I have an antisocial fish or is he
trying to get Koi like behaviour out of my goldfish? Any comments
would be appreciated.


steve



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did you add that fish without quarantine? Ingrid


Uhhhh yes I did and you will love this. I was at Walmart and there was
a little irradescent yellow gold Koi for $4.57. I normally don't by
any fish there but I could not resist. There was a tank of goldfish
and koi, some german/euro woman who was shopping pointed out a few
fish in the tank who were sickly and said, you should quarantine your
fish. I said Yah, yah but the fish was robust and I was forty %
committed to the quarantine thing but I ended up giving it a 10 minute
salt dip and a very short diluted Hydrogen Peroxide dip and then in
he went. I did not add any of the store water to my pond. He is
acting alot less crazy today. Maybe he has fish rabies, I hope not he
seems to be as strong as an ox just wackey.