Koi Diary 156 - Koi first aid, scrapes closer look at growing roof
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- So we start the episode off with some topical treatment on Chubs' nose, simple and straight forward procedure.
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Kusuri sedate - amzn.to/3yKR0Ha
Kusuri Roccal - amzn.to/3MtWtGn
Tamodine - amzn.to/3wqW2qP
Cotton buds
Cotton pads
Then have a closer look at the Muryama Showa, water tests and finally a closer look at the green growing roof on the filter house.
Catch you all when im back from golfing :-)
Andy
Maruyama looking lovely Andy 👌
Yes it does, just hope i can get her to grow!
water is superclass!
Nice update Andy glad all is clear I was worried she wasn't coming round hope it heals her nose. The roof looking great remember to water it in dry weather stay safe
The care sheets recommends only watering in weeks of drought so knowing our weather that will never happen lol, but we'll see. Nah Chubs was fine, she still had gill movement in the sedate so i knew it was ok.
Poor nose 🥺 I'm sure it will heal up fine you've done everything ya can for now 👍
Im sure it will be fine, just hope it doesnt heal and leave a black scar lol shes gonna look right odd
@@koidiaries you could change her name to rudolph
Fish and pond looking really good now mate hope the sore gets better soon 🐟👍🏻🐟 and when you tip the blue up side down it sounded like a tempest would be a good thing If the blue could have a air line in to bubble the carbon 🐟👍🏻🐟
Yeah thats a doog shout! TBH i think next time ill just try the reverse flow first see if thats enough to disturb the carbon and give me a 0 reading, nearly killed me getting it out, when its full it is very heavy
Nice update mate and that Showa you have is stunning! Love how the cat gave zero f’s about the big blue situation 😂
YEah i love the showa a lot! Just hope she grows some this year and the sumi does its thing, potential to be a koi i could only ever dream of owning fingers crossed
ah, I've just been rolling my 'medium' blue on the grass :-)
Hope Chubs heals quickly - Thank you for showing the living roof. Really cool!
As long as the carbon is mixed up I suupose a roll around is easier than turning up like i did haha. Im intrigued as to what flowers ill get on the roof thats for sure
@@koidiaries we have those plants in the south of France, they grow everywhere between rocks. They are pink or yellow and some white flowers. Lots of little long and thin petals. It will be so pretty.
Inspired by your previous upload where you had the Byer grow & show fish out for a measure I did mine today, Mukashi Ogon 51cm, Kohaku 46cm.
Jeepers! Thats decent!!
@@koidiaries Yes but heated to 24c since I've had them, so going to be bigger than those who've had them in their main pond, I doubt many heated to that and fed large amounts continuosly.
Looking well Andy, I guess its all that golfing ⛳ amongst other things 🚲.
Thanks for reminding me to roll the big blue about on the grass and of course test for chlorine.
I hope the trip away helps clear the cobwebs away.
Be seeing you soon matey 👍🏽
Its a hard life being a successful independent business but someone has to do it, and i need to fill the spare days with something lol. I think im just going to do a 1st of the month reverse flow evach month on blue and see how it goes. Its not a mega pain but just need to be proactive rather than reactive lol
@@koidiaries hahaha great answer 🤣
A part of me thinks I should have bought the smaller not so big blue so it's easier to shake about.
I tested it again today and it's registering 70ppb so I think it could be time 🙄🤣.
I guess you are home again after your trip.
Talk soon .
Hi mate, I found with the chlorine test that its best to shake it well before starting the timer on the tester, placing it in the tester and then starting the timer gave enough time for all the particles to settle, putting it in with 20 seconds left on the clock gave me major false readings like 0.3 out of the tap, 0.6 in the pond, did it my way and had 0.3 out of the tap and 0.0 in the pond.
I always shake it up after the powder has gone into the vile i thought that was the best way to help dissolve it.
@@koidiaries yeah mate that's right but they say to start the timer and then shake it up and put it in before the timer runs out, I found it best to shake it, put it in the tester and then start the timer so all the powder settles before the timer runs out, I think having all the powder still floating in the vile gives a false reading, at least for me it does
Awesome video!! Your channel seems really cool!! Just subbed too!!
Thanks for showing the roof. I must say I'm not sure if I could sedate a fish and the treat it and then put it back. I thought Chubbs wasn't going to wake back up!! Hope Chubbs' nose is getting better now after treatment and getting the chlorine sorted 👍
Haha its not that bad if youve done it before, like anything the first time you do something its always a nervous time.
Hi Andy Thanks for showing the treatment on your Koi interesting I would ask do you have any foam pipe insulation that you could fix to the underside of the timber support on the feeder so she would be hitting this rather than a solid bit of timber 🤔
Im thinking about a permanent fix for the feeded maybe like a floating shelf or the like just to take it out of the equation as im not 100% its this shes knocked her nose on, but seeing her feed it probably is lol
Very good video mate. I love seeing how other people treat topically and the video quality was perfect. I get stressed doing this without the aggro of having to film it at the same time, and trying not to swear 😄
Btw, I use the wife's makeup brushes for Tamodine, you know those fluffy fine bristled ones, you can get them nice and deep under the scales, but maybe not so accurate for treating near the eyes or mouth.
Cheers, yeah it was simple enough so i thought id show how i do it. Yeah agree scales are a different story compared to the head/face as its just smooth so a dab of tamodine would do the job.
It's odd how often you've had to backwash your carbon. Mines the same size and been running for well over a year now and I'm still getting zero through it, you must have more chlorine in your water 🤔 roof is looking good 👍
If anyone ever ends up with Andy's phone....pin looks like 1977 🤣 and having watched him for a few years now I'd imagine it's his card pin and his sky pin and everything else that needs 4 digit PIN 🤣
😂😂 Good spot
Haha you would think that but I can confirm whilst he looks that stupid…he actually isn’t!
@@rebeccadaily8995 Mrs D i hope you are well 👋🏼
@@Tom_Prendiville hey hey! All good here - just looking after the house, the pond, the garden, the family, working full time, recovering from multiple illnesses Mr Koi Diaries brings back from gallivanting around the globe 😜🤪 Hope you are keeping well! 🙂🙂
@@rebeccadaily8995 haha yeah tell me about it 🤣 the garden is looking lovely and won't be long before the plants are taking over making a little oasis.
I'm sure Mr D will be taking you away somewhere at some point no doubt 🙂
I tested my Chlorine I have same test as you pond was 13 and from 2 big bules was 0 so got the pond back down to 0 in 3 days the pond was at 9 big bule still 0 😩 . All so I have drop my Trickling in down from 20% a week to 10% a week and have noticed my koi look so much better and don't flash anyone Taking over a week or so to Notice what's the difference and it just seems so much better
Diddy Green you could use sodium Thiasolphate 🤔 which neutralises most things like chlorine pp , hope this helps .👍🏻
Mouth sores and pop-eyed are both typical symptoms caused by overfeeding, which happens at a time when digestion and appetite are not matched, you know. As I have said many times, are you checking the shape of the faeces properly? In any case, until the water temperature stabilises above 20°C, you need to be patient and either keep feeding as little as possible or rather not feed at all, no matter how much they want it. However, in the UK, the water temperature doesn't naturally rise if you wait, does it? That's why you need to heat the water at this time of year. I think the extra cost of heating in winter should be better replaced here,.
So I agree with Atsumi Naoki; it would be better to heat during warmer seasons especially considering that this is when an air source heater is most efficient. Although I do not directly connect overfeeding with mouth sores or pop eye necessarily; to me that would be down to what is happening in the water; i.e. bacteria/toxins and also lowered immunities/healing capacities in the fish themselves (which, yes, are temperature dependant). Although, I do know that overfeeding can cause bad water conditions, but as you can see in Andy's videos - he monitors these well. I would purely put this down to temperature needing to be optimal and maybe issues with pH and overly hard water contributing - RO systems are a good thing to introduce
@@transform9883 There's a saying in Japan that you shouldn't be fooled if they want food in early spring and early summer when the water temperature is below 20°C. In our case, it is more common for beginners to infect KOI with Flexibacter`columnaris and die of gill disease. It is as common as your flukes. Sometimes it deteriorates rapidly and they die in a flap. In most of those cases it is caused by overfeeding due to insufficient water temperature despite of a large appetite. In any case, in mid-summer we all feed quite radically when the water temperature is above 25°C. Against this background, it is widely accepted that until that time comes, we should refrain from feeding them, no matter how much they want.
You need to buy Chubs a crash helmet to stop her bashing her nose on that feeder.
LOL she just needs to chill out, honestly when the feeder goes off shes literally swimming at 100mph to get over to it to get the food, she is nuts!
Andy every know and again I just kick the big blue about whilst still under pressure (trickling) and every time I’ve tested with chlorine checker it’s 0 but every 2 months roughly I’ve got to replace the 3 carbon blocks
Andy whilst texting and still watching 😆 I’ve noticed you don’t trickle as under pressure?? Do you use mains🚰 for your required amount ?? Maybe that’s the issue ?? as I do know when reading cartridge specs it states 1-2ltr per min for certain removals but I run my main water supply 1-2ltr per-min but then restrict down to 150ml per min constantly which gives me my 20% 🚾 weekly
@@simonshears5182 Couls possibly be, i may do this and see if it makes a difference, the BB has a slight drip at the top so id have to sort this lol Great, another job ha
Do you not use Sodium Thiosulphate for when you have pp the pond? It also turns chlorine into salt i think ive read. I use that now instead of a pre filter and dose at 13g per 100 gallons. I think ive also read you cant over dose but dont quote me on that.
Yeah correct that was months ago now though when i used PP. Didnt know about it turning into salt, and as you say correctly you cant overdose on ST but as im trickling in not sure how id add the ST to match the fresh un dechlorinated tap water. Its a pain but if i have to shake the big blue every few months so be it
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Have you ever used propolis mate after tamodine it seals realy well on contact with water , water is looking stunning mate
Nah, In only bad issues have i sealed a wound, which luckily isnt very often i tend to just clean it up and leave it be
@@koidiaries think it acts same way as tamodine aswell kills bacteria on application promotes growth ,
When you say “weed” algae on the side of the pond walls how much is acceptable and what do you treat it with when it gets quite long/hefty?
Well theres a few different types of weed, if its the short fluffy stuff it doesnt really grow long, its the string algae thats the problem, and that needs nipping in the bud as it can literally grow an inch a day. As soon as i start to see the stringy stuff forming i hit the pond with a treatment, as when it comes off the walls its causes a mess and can block the drain
When the carbon is spent - take it out and dry it. Once it is completely dry; the chlorine has evaporated from it and it can now be used again at 100% effectiveness
Well i never knew that! I may try that, not sure where i can dry 25kg of carbon though but may try a small qty! Cheers
@@koidiaries You are welcome. Boiling works too, at 100 degrees in water the chlorine turns into a gas in about 10 minutes (80 degrees will work too but best be on the safe side). And yeah, 25 kg is a lot to do in one go. What I would do is once that is used up, replace it with a fresh 25 kg and slowly remove the chlorine from the spent amount to then be reused once the second quantity of carbon needs replacing. Cycle between the two amounts as needs be. UV light helps too, so drying it in sunlight seems like a good approach to trial this for yourself. Good luck, I enjoy your videos - your new pond is class!
Got to ask the question, are these big blues worth the hassle for the cost?
Yeah deffo IMO. I think in hindsight a smaller blue would of been suffice and easier to manage if i have to do this every few months. On the other hand a few friends have never had an issue with theirs, maybe the key is how much carbon is in there as if theres not enough the tracking can occur?? Who knows