Hello - New member from England

[TomHarrison]

Hello Everyone

I'm Tom and from Cannock in the Midlands and I've got a large, outdoor pond. To cut a long story fairly short, the house had a pond when I bought it, but the garden was so overgrown I didn't realise until I moved in and cleared the garden! It's size is hard to estimate but at its longest it's about 7metres, widest about 5 metres, with a shallow ledge and then it's about 1.5 metres deep at it's deepest. I'm guessing it's about 40,000 litres.

A couple of years ago a family friend who kept fish moved from a house to a flat and I took on his fish, I've got about a dozen large fish, a couple of the koi are over 2 feet long, previously I'd never had any fish. I have done reasonably well with them so far but I've come up on some problems and I was hoping to find some fish veterans who could advise me on whats wrong and what I can do about it.

 

[Sgooosh]

Hello Everyone

I'm Tom and from Cannock in the Midlands and I've got a large, outdoor pond. To cut a long story fairly short, the house had a pond when I bought it, but the garden was so overgrown I didn't realise until I moved in and cleared the garden! It's size is hard to estimate but at its longest it's about 7metres, widest about 5 metres, with a shallow ledge and then it's about 1.5 metres deep at it's deepest. I'm guessing it's about 40,000 litres.

A couple of years ago a family friend who kept fish moved from a house to a flat and I took on his fish, I've got about a dozen large fish, a couple of the koi are over 2 feet long, previously I'd never had any fish. I have done reasonably well with them so far but I've come up on some problems and I was hoping to find some fish veterans who could advise me on whats wrong and what I can do about it.

pics? to the forum!

 

[Guyb93]

Welcome to the forum, I only live around 7 miles from Cannock lol

 

[TomHarrison]

pics? to the forum!

Thanks. I have posted in the emergencies forum but below are some pics of my pond and the fish that's got something wrong with him, it's a ghostfish, you can see him staying close to the edge of the pond in the shallow bit and some close ups showing it looks like he's got something growing on him.

 

[Sgooosh]

Thanks. I have posted in the emergencies forum but below are some pics of my pond and the fish that's got something wrong with him, it's a ghostfish, you can see him staying close to the edge of the pond in the shallow bit and some close ups showing it looks like he's got something growing on him.View attachment 126735View attachment 126736View attachment 126737

that is maybe an injury or cungal infection. try to let him have some rest and if it doest get better treat with fungal infection things