Thread: Strange one, any ideas??

So got a bit of an odd situation going on in pond, my sturgeon is acting strange, even more so than usual just constantly bobbing up and down/tailwalking around pond

Also, I ended up with lots of small roach/rudd in my pond a couple of years ago by mistake (don’t ask)
and over the last couple of days they have started dying off one by one, fished one out couple of days back and another 2 today

Putting 2 and 2 together, I know on some medications it states not suitable for “other” pond fish ie Rudd/orfe & sturgeon so what exactly does affect these other fish and not koi?

Koi seem ok ish for now, slowed down with temp drops but seem ok looking for food etc

Air stones filtration etc still working no changes there, and haven’t used any treatments in pond, struggling to think what the issue could be


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Can’t put a video on for some reason but it’s just constantly doing this around pond and swimming on its back


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How old is your sturgeon. I had one that was about 18 years old, a big bugger at 4ft 10inch, and started acting similar to yours, tail walking and jumping. I rang a vet that specialises in fish and he said sturgeon are prone to brain tumours in their later years. Unfortunately I lost mine as he jumped out of the pond and I didn’t find him in time.

Is it Hungry?

Originally Posted by Djstiles999

I’d be testing the water, my pond ph drops sometimes when we’ve had a lot of rain?

Good shout, we’ve had absolutely of loads of rain this week!


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Originally Posted by Maddog1

Is it Hungry?

It does do that when it’s hungry but I tried it and wasnt interested in food


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Originally Posted by Martin59

How old is your sturgeon. I had one that was about 18 years old, a big bugger at 4ft 10inch, and started acting similar to yours, tail walking and jumping. I rang a vet that specialises in fish and he said sturgeon are prone to brain tumours in their later years. Unfortunately I lost mine as he jumped out of the pond and I didn’t find him in time.

Not too sure tbh we’ve had it about 2 maybe 3 years but it came from a family members pond who had had it a while but unsure of just how long


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neighbour lost both of his in a matter of a couple of days. then a couple of koi.
I checked PH and it was well low.

keith

It was indeed a ph crash, I tested this morning and it was 5 ish!

Tested the tap water which was 7.0-7.5

I’ve changed a bit of water through the nexus and added what bicarb I had to hand, I’ll restock with more today and test/repeat tomorrow

Just one more roach dead this morning other stuff sulking but still alive including sturgeon


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Update on this, everything looking a lot better and ph raised back to decent level, thanks to the people who commented for the help


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