Question about fish dying in a small pond
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06/07/19 09:51 PM
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I know of this small pond, approx 1 1/2 acre that was great to fish. It does have some geese with a lot of poop around but it has for years. A person that was removing old clay tile sewer lines and replacing with plastic threw the clay tiles in the pond instead of disposing of them proper. About a week or so later the crappie were floating on the top, over 400 I am told. My question is, is this coincidence or is it possible the old sewer lines could kill the fish?
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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06/08/19 07:11 AM
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I'd say the tiles upset the PH balance just enough to take the fish out, other wise you would have seen most everything dead, and you might yet ! This is what I was thinking but I don't know enough about it. There's more dead fish.
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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Might have had clean out chemicals in side, ie: Draino, Liquid Plumber etc.
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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Algae bloom would be a possibility. Or pond turnover. This would be my guess...it’s a little early in the year for a pond to be turning over. That usually happens in dog days, but an algae bloom would be very likely. We had one completely wipe out one of our creeks here.
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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We had some winter kill here locally.
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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I saw some old tiles one time that were full of a whitish material that I was told was "phosphates" from laundry detergent. I have no idea of the validity of that analysis; just thought I'd mention it.
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Re: Question about fish dying in a small pond
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06/09/19 11:54 AM
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I saw some old tiles one time that were full of a whitish material that I was told was "phosphates" from laundry detergent. I have no idea of the validity of that analysis; just thought I'd mention it. Thats probably true. Detergents in the old days had phosphates, thats why people had a harder time getting things clean for a while when formulations switched to phosphorous free
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