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Help! All my fish are gasping

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#1 ·
I've had a pond for 6 yrs. I move them inside every winter. This year was warm so we kept in porch. With a heater.
So 3 days ago I bought some dill plants for adding taste to food from the supermarket. Last night we did a water change. Today we come home to all our fish gasping. We have since moved them into a plastic tote with 3 air bublers. Our 2 koi are wait one koi is not good. And our baby gold fish has passed. Our shubunken is not doing good. The rest ate ok... have I done something terrible by adding dill? We have have been holding them over the bibles to help get into there giL's. . What else can I do? Please help...
 
#2 ·
The best thing you can do is a large scale water change to remove whatever is in the water, whether it is "dill" or something else.
- Have you done a water test? What ranges are your pH, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite sitting at?
- Filtration, what is it?
- How big is the body of water they your fish are in?

Holding them over bibles will not help at all, they need water - in other words, holding them out of water over a book will not help them survive.
(Why did you add dill to the fishes water for?)
 
#3 ·
I'm hoping they meant bubbles, not bibles? If that's the case, the air bubbles don't directly supply the fish with oxygen. The bubbles purpose is to burst at the surface, breaking the surface tension of the water which allows the gas exchange to occur. So holding the fish over the bubbles is not helpful.
 
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