Ohgon Koi Carp
Ohgon Koi Carp

I had an earlier night which was counter-productive as I was restless in the early hours but then I was up early to tend my fish pond before starting work on my Little Paxton church history chapter. Stephen Field arrive later and treated my fish for dropsy and gill fluke after they had succumbed to these conditions after the nitrite water shock. A good Environmental Services Committee meeting this evening with recommendations overturned so that St Ives bypass will now be named Harrison Way and post meeting chat with Ross McKay who may come across from the Conservatives.

I had an earlier night for once, but then found that I was restless and awake in the early hours and had to get up early. I was dressed and showered half an hour before breakfast and tended my fish and their pond by pumping out some water for a change and starting its refilling. I started work on my chapter on Little Paxton St James’s Church again and it all went very well until my morning coffee break when I noticed that my pond ultraviolet light sterilising lamp had failed and so I then spent the next two hours taking it to pieces. Eventually, Stephen Field arrived to look at my fish with me. We netted out the young fish with ‘dropsy’ and gave him a three-minute bath in potassium permanganate in an isolation tank. The other fish followed one at a time and then the Ohgon had some mercurochrome put on its bruise. Lastly, the ‘dropsy’ victim was left in the tank in a saline solution to be made gradually more concentrated.

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It seems that all of the carp’ gills were rather purple (instead of being red) due to the recent nitrite shock but we were treating them for gill fluke and parasites in view of their grasping. I also have some food pellets soaked in wide range antibiotic’s and some more chemical to treat the whole pond soon! I had a late lunch after all this had taken place and then another work session at which I was really beginning to get the evolution of the church building worked out before I ran out of time. This evening, I had to attend an Environmental Services Committee meeting of the District Council and so I had to allow an hour to prepare. In the end, the meeting went quite well with the committee in independent mind (egged on by me!) And a couple of recommendations were overturned, and amendments agreed. One victory was the St Ives bypass is now to be named Harrison Way after a long-serving local representative which the local people were very concerned about. I gave a lift home to Tory exile, Ross McKay, who is very disillusioned with the local Conservatives and seemed to be making overtures which may be worth taking up.