Originally Posted by Bobbi K.
The Youtube link takes me to my own videos, so probably the wrong link. Look for the embed code and paste it into the post.
You will need to post a link to the video and not the editor tab for the video as it sends all of us to our personal editor pages.
I recommend you really upgrade your filtration. A canister such as a Rena XP4 or Fluval would save you a lot of chemicals and water. I run a pair of XP4 on my bare 75g and I haven't had detectable ammonia in years.
The over-the-side filters did not work for me, and I had a double. I ended up a few years ago with a canister filter. That has resolved my problem. Thanks to all who replied.
I rescued 24 koi fish from a pond that was being dug up. The fish are doing great and have tripled in size. I've got them split up in one 20 gallon, one 30 gallon, and one 3' x 6' pond that sit above the ground not dug in. My problem is that i'm doing water changes every other day, to keep the ammonia levels down. And now that the weather is hot i do changes to add cold water along with the frozen water bottles to keep the water cool. Is there a way to fix this? The 20 gal has 4 fish, ranging from 4 to 6 inches in size, which i plan to move to the 30 gallon tank, and the 30 gallon tank has 11 smaller koi ranging from 2 to 3". The pond has 3 fish all about 4". There is no problem with ammonia in the pond even though the water has algae kinda bad.The 11 Koi are going into a 50 gallon soon that has a sand bottom, that was in the tank already. How can i keep these ammonia levels down without doing so many water changes? I don't want to put these guys that are in tanks into the pond, already lost 2 of my best koi a large fancy male and one female to the neighborhood crane bird, don't want that to happen to these. And oh ya i also have 3 10 gallon tanks the 3 different size koi fry in them ranging from newly hatched to about 9 to 10 wks old. separated them by size because the oldest one and his little buddy were eating the smaller ones. I even caught one of them after moving the biggest one to his own tank, sizing up the fish in it's tank! Actually going up to the other fish to see if they were small enough for him to eat! All together there's close to 100 fry. Theres a separate part of the pond that i started putting the fry in and they're are doing fine no ammonia there either. Sorry to run on so much just need to know if there's another alternative to handle these bare bottom tank. can't afford to put rock in them right now.This has bee an expensive rescue, close to $500. Would appreciate and feedback on ammonia, and the bare bottom tank. Never had this problem when i was breeding discus, so i'm kinda lost on what to do. hope you can help Thank you for your time.
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