So let me start this story with my brother is an idiot... anyhow with that being said he went
on vacation for a week and wants me to take care of his 55g koi tank. so im there now and what do i
see but a yellow tinted, Stinky water. the gravel is even yucky brown/yellow looking. its got 14 pretty decent size Koi in it... its over populated by id say 10 large fish. they range in size from 3 inches to
almost 8 inches i have no idea when he got this tank. im assuming he got the fish from our father. he
has no testing supplies for me to find out the levels. when i move the gravel just tons of crap comes flowing out. the fish are discolored. he has a HOB filter of some kind no lid on it that would have the name brand lol. its odd looking to say the least. Anyway what ive done to attempt to clean this as i dont wanna see these fish die in my hands is. 50% water change ive vacuumed up most of the gravel prolly 65 percent.
cleaned out his filter. however there are two what i can only imagine are bacteria plastic things lol i did not clean those. i replaced the water with well water with water conditioner... it still smells. but i have no carbon here to fix that... i dont really care if he is mad at me for this but i wont be to blame for these fish when they go belly up. tomarrow when i come back here ill bring my testing strips to get more info. but do you think there is anything else i should do? ive never had a tank go this
"Bad" i was always Either lucky or something lol. anyway let me know please!!!
also. I thought it might just be an Algae bloom of some kind but i dont think so as it doesnt look
"Cloudy" it looks yellow almost like tanning from driftwood... i dont know thanks tho
on vacation for a week and wants me to take care of his 55g koi tank. so im there now and what do i
see but a yellow tinted, Stinky water. the gravel is even yucky brown/yellow looking. its got 14 pretty decent size Koi in it... its over populated by id say 10 large fish. they range in size from 3 inches to
almost 8 inches i have no idea when he got this tank. im assuming he got the fish from our father. he
has no testing supplies for me to find out the levels. when i move the gravel just tons of crap comes flowing out. the fish are discolored. he has a HOB filter of some kind no lid on it that would have the name brand lol. its odd looking to say the least. Anyway what ive done to attempt to clean this as i dont wanna see these fish die in my hands is. 50% water change ive vacuumed up most of the gravel prolly 65 percent.
cleaned out his filter. however there are two what i can only imagine are bacteria plastic things lol i did not clean those. i replaced the water with well water with water conditioner... it still smells. but i have no carbon here to fix that... i dont really care if he is mad at me for this but i wont be to blame for these fish when they go belly up. tomarrow when i come back here ill bring my testing strips to get more info. but do you think there is anything else i should do? ive never had a tank go this
"Bad" i was always Either lucky or something lol. anyway let me know please!!!
also. I thought it might just be an Algae bloom of some kind but i dont think so as it doesnt look
"Cloudy" it looks yellow almost like tanning from driftwood... i dont know thanks tho
my planted tank is 7.2 ph and zeros across the board. so i didnt have much to compair it to anyhow thanks for the help...OH i got his yellow water under control. I believe it was because of the iron in his well water... either way his gravel was just full of crap so it was most likely not as bad as i had thought by looking at it. Fish are still kucky looking but i donno. anyway thanks !