new water will often make fish jump. cant do a net? where you pull the net up when
the pond is alone and push it down when sitting by the pond?
Ingrid

"Ann in Houston" wrote:

After a completely non-mysterious fish death, which robbed us of three nice
fish in one night, a couple of weeks ago, I thought I would mention it to
any new folks who might lurk here. I so seldom have any insight to offer,
compared to the active experts here, that I didn't think to post it, until I
was chiming in on BV's OT post about his aquarium.
The point of the post is to use other methods besides a net if you have to
move any fish, especially koi. If you can't do it any other way, at least
carry them in a tub of some kind to their new location. Even if you don't
injure them, a net gets them stressed and stirred up, and, in our case, they
jumped.
Now, we are afraid to use our new pond in its current configuration, because
we are afraid it is too shallow, and the planned elegant effect of a pond
with the top edge close to the ground must give way to the safety and
practicality of having three courses of bricks around the pond, so the fish
are less likely to make it out of the pond, should they get frisky
(energetic, that is). I shouldn't let it bother me, but I had a certain
look in mind for this patio and pond, and it is going to be totally
different now. Oh well, it's better than losing fish.
Anyway, go easy on the nets for moving fish.




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