Gazingatstars12
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My girlfriends grandparents have a small koi pond in their backyard that's been there about 3 or 4 years. When we started dating almost 2 years ago there were 4 koi about 7-8 inches long. I'm guessing the pond is somewhere between 300 and 500 gallons. For well over a year now, since I started keeping fish in an aquarium and learning about water parameters, we have been in a battle with them to run their filter as much as possible. We built them a waterfall with a new filter, set up timers... yada yada.
Every time we go over there the mechanical timer is unplugged, the filter is off, and the water is green and disgusting. I'm guessing they run their filter about 2 hours a day MAX. They took out all the filter media except for the lava rock because it "got too dirty" We can't even get them to keep the dam barley bag in there for the algae. I don't know anything about changing water in ponds, but all they do as far as this is concerned is top it off straight from the hose.
Now their fish have decided to go ahead and spawn a few months ago and I'm afraid its a death sentence for them all. There's about a dozen babies about 1-2 inches long. I have a stinking feeling once winter is over and the weather starts to get warmer they're gonna start to see floating fish.
Do these little guys have any chance? And I know my info is sort of vague, but id like some kind of idea of how long until disaster strikes?
Thanks in advance
Every time we go over there the mechanical timer is unplugged, the filter is off, and the water is green and disgusting. I'm guessing they run their filter about 2 hours a day MAX. They took out all the filter media except for the lava rock because it "got too dirty" We can't even get them to keep the dam barley bag in there for the algae. I don't know anything about changing water in ponds, but all they do as far as this is concerned is top it off straight from the hose.
Now their fish have decided to go ahead and spawn a few months ago and I'm afraid its a death sentence for them all. There's about a dozen babies about 1-2 inches long. I have a stinking feeling once winter is over and the weather starts to get warmer they're gonna start to see floating fish.
Do these little guys have any chance? And I know my info is sort of vague, but id like some kind of idea of how long until disaster strikes?
Thanks in advance