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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546

    Maxine, perhaps you only visit this site occasionally to ask a question, but many  people on here are regular contributors and regard each other as old friends. They chat and joke together as friends do, and if some have a somewhat dry way of putting things or a more robust sense of humour, well that's just people for you. It doesn't mean they are setting out to offend.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

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    I did have a bent fish in a previous pond, it was an orfe, I was going to say self-seeded, but whatever the fish equivalent is. It seemed to manage life OK but looked rather odd.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    Bent spine can be a result of parasitic attack and even tuberculosis.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    What about physical damage darren? We had great diving beetle larvae in their hundreds one year and they attacked a couple of small fish, would that have done it?

    I can't remember all the details now, it's best part of 30 years ago. I only do wildlife ponds in my current garden.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    They do Jo



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    Any scale/ external damage can easily be a vector for infection.



    Clean water usually solves most issues



    Water beetles are vicious things.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Theyare vicious darren, we have them in our  ponds now , in reasonable numbers thay are no problem, just part of the wildlife in a wildlife pondimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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