Re: why are my fish dying?
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Yeah that pond works out at what 140-150 gal? thats not gonna be enough for the carp especially, but the other fish too will be in overstock when adult. Its also too shallow for some of those species and the temperature will probably vary radically on warm days with a massive day/night drop. Even with the filter reducing the ammonia and nitrite youd still get massive nitrate reading, youd have to be changing virtually 50% of the water out a week , it would be more like keeping a densely stocked aquarium, theres no way the nitrate level will self regulate, even the one adult carp at full size could overstock it. Its real stocking capacity with minimal maintenance would he half a dozen goldies or less.
Probably time to get a liquid test kit , get the water qaulity known about properly, those perams, if they are what id estimate them to be will be causing gill damage , and making disease susceptibility far more likely. Even if the fish are small enough now that it isnt a major problem, it soon will be. At that size its really a smaller goldfish only pond.