[Sangreaal]

Only 3 days in the pond and trouble hits.....

Went out this morning just after typing the last post to Meg and found that the pond had cleared considerably after having left the hose on in it all night. I also found the Little Blue's dead body floating on the bottom.

Have not confirmed by scraping and scoping it or the other fish, but with the sunken eyes, notched nose, pale gills and the fact that Little Blue seemed quite fine yesterday at feeding time, I conferred and shared pics of the cadaver with some KHA's online, all of whom thought that it might be costia. Upon hearing that, I did the knee jerk thing to protect everyone else in there--treated the pond with Proform-C, the only thing besides PP that I have to treat it with immediately.

The rest of the fish seem fine as far as their behavior goes; other than Gentle, who was hanging back from the others this morning, but is schooling with them now.

Wow....nothing like getting hit in the head with a worry-hammer when one least expects it....

Goodbye Little Blue. I'll miss you.