You may accept been absolutely able for the storm, or the storm may accept taken you by complete surprise. Whatever the case may be, you charge jump into activity as anon as you physically can to ensure that no added accident is done to your pond.
First, you charge disengage all of your storm precautions to analysis the accessible damage.
If you netted your pond, bright as abundant bits off the net as accessible and abolish the netting. Once you removed the applique you will be able to analysis the accident and the action that your angle are in. If aerial amnion were accepted and your beach bagged the breadth about you pond, as continued as the baptize akin is normal, abolish all beach accoutrements so that you can calmly admission your pond. Do not get beat if things assume out of place, and it may not be as bad as it originally looks.
Once you accept removed all applique and added precautions, booty time to attending at the area. If any bits is present, abolish it by bribery and netting. If plants or decorations are uprooted or out of place, alter them to their applicable area.
If you acquisition above accident to your pond, it is important to abolish your Koi as anon as possible. Able bagging and alteration techniques may be bare if the accident done will booty a ample bulk of time to fix, but there are several acting options accessible if accident can be anchored quickly. You may appetite to accede application a children's basin to abode your Koi. If annihilation is accessible at the time, get into acquaintance with your bounded pet abundance or zoo, as they may accept affairs accessible to advice you abode your Koi until aliment can be done.
Once you accept absitively that alone baby aliment are needed, again you charge focus on the baptize quality. You baptize may assume blurred or black due to the storm and the bulk of added baptize from rainfall. If the storm lasted for a continued bulk of time, you may be adverse ammonia issues as well.
Test your baptize for Nitrates. If Nitrates are present, add the able bulk of alkali to the water. Typically you would add 3/4 to one batter of alkali per 100 gallons of water. However, if your angle are abnormally abashed by the situation, or assume to accept abiding any blazon of injuries, it may be a acceptable abstraction to add more. If you accept plants in your pond, it may be a acceptable abstraction to abolish them afore abacus the alkali into the water. Your angle should be the best important affair at this point, not your plants.
If you are accepting KH issues (especially if it is beneath 100) you will appetite to add baking soda to your pond. Typically you can add 1 cup of unpacked baking soda per 1000 gallons of water. This will assure your pond from a approaching pH crash.
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