[AT] OT- Fish Kill

[Roy Morgan]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Mogrits wrote:

> ... three acre pond. ...a hundred dead bluegills,

Warren,

We had a similar thing happen summer before last.  But it was the six  
20-inch Koi fish that had lived in our pond for 10 years or more.

We in Northern Virginia had a long drought.  The fellow whose pasture  
borders our land and is close to the pond had put down some lime (I  
think it was lime) and then it did rain for a day or so.  We came home  
to find all 6 of the huge Koi floating dead as can be.  We *think* the  
rain and possibly the lime, caused an algae bloom that did in the  
fish.  Other smaller fish and the turtles survived just fine.

Roy


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