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Old 10-06-2003, 04:08 AM
Just Me \Koi\
 
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Default Pond Tragedy (long post)

Really trippy! Strange things happens to us ponders! God knows what else
is in our pond!!!

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"Lee Brouillet" wrote in message
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True story: my vet told me about a friend of hers who came out one morning
to find a dead bass in her pond and a koi missing. It seems that one of

our
fish-eating birds had caught a bass and was flying back to the nest with

it
when s/he spotted this nice, clean pond with brightly colored fish in it.

It
dropped the bass and took home a nice koi for her kids, instead. Children
LIKE bright colors, ya know! Maybe yours got dropped???

Lee

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"Just Me "Koi"" wrote in message
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We must have offended the pond gods!


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From the "we must have offended the pond gods" department. I drained

about
50% of the water out of my pond yesterday and got in to clean out as

much
mud as I could. The Calcite definitely helped as there was about 5

inches
of
clay on the bottom of the pond. I refilled slowly over hours, and did

not
treat the water. I know, I know, no need to tell me. The water is still
cloudy but I plan to give it a day or so.

So we're standing there, and my wife says, "I'd be so happy to see a

fish",
and WHAM there goes a fish eating a bug. We went out last night, and

when
we
came home, I saw 3-4 fish swimming along, chomping on bugs. Now here is

the
gods part. I found a dead fish. I suspect the surge of new water

untreated
did him in. I should be punished. But here is the weird part. I have no

idea
what the fish was. To date, I have put a few minnows and 2 25 cent

goldies
in. This fish was way too big to be one of my minnows and way to small

to
be
one of the goldies. I am perplexed.

BV.