Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Some dead fish please help-pics included

I bought 12 grass carp from Smith Creek Fish Farm in Bliss NY a couple of years ago.

I put the fish in my ponds as per usual acclimation procedures, and found 3 of them dead the next day.

I never really got an explanation from the fish farm other than "that normally doesn't happen"

A fourth one died the next year, but I don't know how. By the time I found it, it was up on the shore half eaten by a raccoon or something.

A 15 min. trip in a cooler with an aerator should be no trouble at all for the fish.

Sorry to pass on a non-answer, but just wanted you to know the same thing happened to me, with no real explanation.

They really look in rough shape in those pictures, quite the "rash" they have...