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Pond Light Burnt out - Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The metal halide lamp over the pond appears to be on it's way out... will replace soon.

Male Kohaku relapse - Tuesday, May 08, 2007
The male kohaku is having a relapse of gill problems. He will be moved to medicine tank soon.

Frame rate restored - Friday, February 02, 2007

I think I have resolved the low frame rate issue with the live under water cam. It is now encoded at and delivers 29 frames per second.

Sick Fish Update - Friday, February 02, 2007

The male Kohaku has made a complete recovery. Just waiting for the pond temperature to rise a little before putting him back.

Sick Fish Update - Monday, December 18, 2006
After 48 hours at 84 degrees, the large sick Koi is: no longer keeping his right gill cover clamped shut, is breathing much slower and has become very energetic, feisty and stubborn. He is eating tiny amounts of tofu, fresh hand split peas and mashed bits of shrimp. I would like to feed him more as he is constantly attempting to eat everything in the tank edible or not, however maintaining near undetectable ammonia levels in such a small tank has been quite an endeavour and does not permit me feeding him as much as he would like.

Sick Fish Update - Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The one large koi that is still sick has been moved to a heated tank.

Sick Fish Update - Thursday, October 26, 2006
The smaller of the two sick koi showed dramatic improvement within 24 hours of first injection. (Respiratory rate near normal. Much harder to catch for second injection.) No noticeable signs of improvement in larger koi. However, currently less then half way through prescribed antibiotic injections.

Diagnosis: Bacterial Gill Disease - Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Two of the five fish have been diagnosed (*through process of elimination) with having bacterial gill disease. Attempting to obtain antibiotics. Federal law makes this unreasonably difficult; requiring prescription from a licensed DVM who has seen the fish. not a problem in and of it self, however it appears that less then one percent of DVM's will treat or even see a fish.

*Bacterial Gill Disease not confirmed through culture.

Fish Still Sick - Sunday, October 08, 2006
Doing salt bath treatments to buy time until a biopsy can be done and a specific treatment prescribed. Water may be cloudy due to me chasing fish around the pond. The camera will be offline every once in a while when I'm in the pond trying to catch a fish.

Upload your own fish Pictures and videos - Thursday, September 14, 2006
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Current Pond Chemistry - Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Ph 7.0

Nitrate NO3 <15ppm

Nitrite NO2 not detected

Phosphate PO4 <0.1ppm

Ammonia NH3/NH4 not detected

Salt 0.04%

Frisky Fish - Friday, August 11, 2006
Fish are acting Frisky, might have to separate them.

Treatment progressing well - Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Treatment appears to be progressing well. The Koi are rubbing on rocks less and less.

Sick Fish - Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Koi have contracted Trichodina or Ichthyophthirius multifilis.