Okay, I will get it out of there . However, don't act like leaving it
is absurd:

1)I've read that if ice forms in the winter you shouldn't pound on it
so you don't disturb the domant Koi. Certainly hitting with a new would
disturb them even more.
2) Fish die all the time in nature and nobody gets them out.
3) If the pond was covered in snow/ice, you wouldn't even know there
was a dead fish to remove.




Roy wrote:
On 14 Feb 2005 09:38:50 -0800, "Mike C"
wrote:

===I took a peak under my pond cover and noticed 1 of my 6 Koi was
dead.
===It is laying at the bottom of the pond near where the other
fish are.
===Should I get it out or just leave it? I am a little concerned
that
===poking a net down there is going to really disturb the other
Koi. Will
===leaving the dead fish have a negative impact on the water
quality (pond
===is 500 gallons)? I am in Chicago and the water temp is around
40 now.


Are you for real...afraid to disturb the other fish and would even
think about leaving a dead fish there until conditions that suit you
are right before you remove it, which by then would be nothing but a
swirling mess of koi bones and scal;es and fungal growths and
probably
a few more dead koi as well. Get in there remove the dead fish, and
don;t worry about disturbing the others, they will do just fine from
what disturbance you may make.

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