Help Please Acidental complete water change

LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.

"Randy" wrote in message
news:3zwIc.74815$XM6.22733@attbi_s53...
LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.


Definitely need to put in a whole lot of stress coat to get rid of the chlorine.
Geez, I don't know what else you can do. Check the pH, and all the other
parameters, and try to slowly adjust as necessary. But I think he's going to
lose more. Does he have a biological filter? He's going to need to add some
aquazyme or another bacteria starter. Sorry to hear about his loss.

"Randy" wrote in message
news:3zwIc.74815$XM6.22733@attbi_s53...
LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.

First concern is to be sure you have enough dechlor in there. The chlorine
or chloramine will kill the fish faster then will his lack of filtration,
assuming he has killed is biofilter. Being 7000 gallons, it is going to be
hard to dechlor it, so If I were him, I'd get the fish out of the pond and
into a temp holding area. Then do checks of the chlorine, chloramine,
ammonia in the pond. Once the levels are safe, reintroduce the fish.

If the biofilter got killed off, I doubt it, but if it did, he'll want to do
partial water changes until the filter is back on-line. Did I mention
Dechlor?

BV.

I did the same thing over last winter.... lost all around 10 koi, 2 commets,
1 goldfish and like 2 mosquito fish before I caught the error... I put in
declor.. (mine treats 7600 gallons per bottle) and I had a goldfish survive
(I was pulling him out as deceased when I saw his gill move) and a baby
koi/goldfish mix along with a couple hundred mosquito fish. After that I
name all my fish. I have Lucky, his brother Lucky, his wife Lucky there 362
kids all name Lucky...... and George. So... from what I understand about
chloromines is that it prohibits the exchange of oxygen as water passes the
gills. It apparently doesn't damage them to the point where you will lose
all your fish if you treat the water quick enough. If your neighbor is like
me tell him not to be too hard on himself and make some offerings to the
pond gods.

"Randy" wrote in message
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LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.

"Randy" wrote:

LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.



I think poring in dechlorinator is about all you can do. It should be okay
though.


San Diego Joe
4,000 - 5,000 Gallons.
Goldfish, a RES named Colombo and an Oscar.



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"Randy" wrote in message news:3zwIc.74815$XM6.22733@attbi_s53...
LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.

Not that it would be helpful this time, but a thought occurs: We have
a shower head filter that removes a good percentage of the chlorine.
($85 US) I have never chemically tested it, but you cannot smell
chlorine when showering, so it is definitely reduced. I would not rely
on it alone to remove the all chlorine and I have no information on
what it does for chloramine.
But my point is, why not build something like this into the feedwater
line, just as insurance? Or is there some fishy/pondy unit on the
market?
Also, if you had a filter like that you could circulate the pond water
through it with a garden hose.
--
Crashj; building . . .

"Randy" wrote:

LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.

I did the same thing a few weeks ago. So far I've seen no effect other
than the water was clearer. I expect there to be more effect when I
get my water bill :-(.

When I add water to my pond, I use the 'gentle shower' setting on my
hose nozzle. I point it up into the air to get maximum aeration - I
think this helps get rid of some of the chlorine before it ever hits
the pond.


Roger Grady
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"Randy" wrote:

LAst night my neighbor was topping off his 7700 gallon pond and he
accidently left the water on overnight he lost about 25 of his 50 fish. I
dumped in some water prep this morning but I wonder if there is something
else I can do to save the remining fish. The whole pond is new water
now.Please help.




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