BV,
Sounds like a bunch of eggs or critters that are delicious have attached
to your pond/plants/roots ;-) besides that, koi are famous for
rooting around in plants and wrestling! and spawning! and ...
you name it!

Nedra
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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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I went out to the pond this morning, and all nine fish were
fighting/thrashing around in the roots of some plant that I have growing
near the pond. The plants are rooted in the rocks, and they have grown
long
roots into the pond. Some of the fish were working so hard to get into the
pile that they were out of the water! When they saw me they retreated. I
inspected the roots which appear (I am not sure) to be shorter. I don't
see
eggs, foam, etc. so I am assuming this was not a spawn but "spring is here
and we're starving" buffet on these roots.

My wife just called me at work, and said she looked out the window this
morning from the kitchen (about 100 feet away from the pond) and saw
orange
flopping. When she went out, two of the fish had managed to get out of the
pond and on the rocks in the very same spot! The liner in that area is
perfectly clean from them wiggly and fighting in this root mass.

I can't wait to get home and check this out. In the mean time, I asked the
old SO to toss some food in to the pond, in case this is a hunger thing.

What do you think?

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BV.
www.iheartmypond.com