Dsybok wrote:
I have kept koi of various sizes over the past two years, in mainly small
ponds. Upgraded to about an 800 gallon pond last summer. I have kept the
same 5 koi and one comet since then until today. One is missing.

It was a good sized fish, my largest at 12, maybe 16 inches. Fat. Too big
for the average house cat or animal to carry off. Its just gone without a
trace. No body anywhere in the pond vicinity. Have any other Long Beach area
ponders had problems with large birds, herons etc carrying off their fish?

Should I net this pond?

I keep a plastic owl for other reasons, but if it was a Heron who swiped my
fish. I have had only one other unexplained dissappearance in 4 years.

Response, except by idiot bible pounding troll pond scum appreciated.

D


There are a few ospreys in Southern California. I've read they migrate
so you might be the victim of a snatch-and-run. So far, I've had no
fish losses in So. Cal, so I can't say much more.

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