Bonnie, My Koi came to the rescue of their brother/sister and swam
with it until it was able to go it alone. Made me cry to see them.

Nedra
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"Bonnie Espenshade" wrote in message
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Theo van Daele wrote:
Hmm... yeah, there's that !

When I rebuilt my pond this year (and had them all under the deck), the
next
morning, I found 2 of them back in the pond I was draining, and one
lying on
the ground next to it. They had just jumped "the fence".

Apparently I was just quick enough (I think half an hour max), put it
back
into the water, rocked it gently, and suddenly it started to swim again
like
nothing ever happened.

One of the little things I learned from that is to "inspect" the pond
every
morning & every afternoon for fish that tried to find "a way out"...

Theo

PS: bigfoot... IIRC, isn't that a police thingy in the UK ?



Earlier this Spring when we moved the 2 year old koi into
the kiddie pool one jumped out. I found it in time and
walked it until I got tired then DH took over for awhile.
Then we let the fish go, thinking if it makes it fine if not
we tried. The other fish in the pool took over and swam
with this fish. One or either side and forced it to swim.
This continued until the fish was swimming on its own. My
DH was amazed and so was I. I had heard of this happening
but never saw it myself.
It's been 2 weeks and the fish are all doing fine. I must
also say that they are all going to a good home - a large
new pond that is now being constructed!

--
Bonnie
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