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Lost my best koi
For the last couple of years, my largest koi has had a tumor. She was
about 1- years old. She finally succombed to it. She was very tame, had long veil fins and was 26" long. A sad loss. The others seem to be doing fine. Jim |
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ah, rats!
I'm sorry to hear that. My favorite fish was named Monstro, after the famous whale. Have tried not to get too attached to the fish after that. k :-) |
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Phyllis and Jim wrote:
For the last couple of years, my largest koi has had a tumor. She was about 1- years old. She finally succombed to it. She was very tame, had long veil fins and was 26" long. A sad loss. The others seem to be doing fine. Jim Sorry to hear about your loss :-( I know that there are many people out there who would say they are just fish but these are people who tend not to keep or if they do keep fish they don't observe. Many fish have endearing characters that make us become attached to them and their longevity makes them as much part of the family as a dog or cat..... Sorry again Gill |
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k wrote:
ah, rats! I'm sorry to hear that. My favorite fish was named Monstro, after the famous whale. Have tried not to get too attached to the fish after that. I was sorry to hear that, too. The first fish I lost was a 9" Ogon, who started swimming poorly on his side. After a week of watching him start to wither away, I put him in a Ziplok of pond water and put him in my freezer 'til he was gone. The next year, I had a beautiful Kohaku die. I did an autopsy on her and discovered that she had become eggbound. After that, I too, became rather detached about my roll as pondkeeper. Now they're all gone and I have drained the pond. ;-( -- Nick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ! ~Semper Fi~ |
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"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message ups.com... For the last couple of years, my largest koi has had a tumor. She was about 1- years old. She finally succombed to it. She was very tame, had long veil fins and was 26" long. A sad loss. The others seem to be doing fine. Jim ====================== I'm so sorry to hear this. It's always hard to lose your favorite fish. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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"Nick Cramer" wrote in message ... Now they're all gone and I have drained the pond. ;-( ============================= That's a bummer. I would have just left it to the frogs and other little critters out there to enjoy. We've decided if the fish ever go we'll pull the nets and let the wild things have the ponds. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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"Reel McKoi" wrote:
"Nick Cramer" wrote in message Now they're all gone and I have drained the pond. ;-( ============================= That's a bummer. I would have just left it to the frogs and other little critters out there to enjoy. We've decided if the fish ever go we'll pull the nets and let the wild things have the ponds. I could have gotten mosquito fish from Vector Control and bought some frogs, but I didn't. It would have turned into a mosquito farm. With a bunch of little kids here, and West Nile Virus in the area, I opted to drain it. ;-/ -- Nick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ! ~Semper Fi~ |
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"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message ups.com... For the last couple of years, my largest koi has had a tumor. She was about 1- years old. She finally succombed to it. She was very tame, had long veil fins and was 26" long. A sad loss. The others seem to be doing fine. Jim Sorry to hear about your loss, Jim. I was adding water to my pond the other day and realized that I had gained three fish. I know two are goldfish fingerlings, and the third also is likely to be one as well, though I didn't get a good look at that one. Glad to hear the others are ok. George |
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"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
For the last couple of years, my largest koi has had a tumor. She was about 1- years old. She finally succombed to it. She was very tame, had long veil fins and was 26" long. A sad loss. The others seem to be doing fine. Jim Jim, so sorry to hear about your fish. I see my fish as living time lines, so if an older one were to die, it would be like that time line gone. They may not be warm, fuzzy & cuddly, but they give my eyes a lot of pleasure to see them swimming happily along. I'm not one to name fish really, but I put 4 wakins and 4 fans/moors in the lily pond this year that I won't be bringing in. Last year all but 2 were taken by a bird (I think). A club member mentioned finding kids fishing over his fence, but I don't think that was it. Anyway.... I put 5 fake fish in way before I put out the real fish. Daily I go out and say to myself, there's Precious (the prettiest one of the wakins), Twin (who is almost as nice as Precious), Peewee, the smallest wakin, and White, a white wakin. Then there is Panda, the panda moor, Momma fan & Baby fan, and a black moor that really doesn't have a name beyond that. Not exactly imaginative, but works for me. ;-) Other than disappearing into the pre-filter a couple of time early on, all going good now. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Hi Jim,
Sorry to hear of your loss. Hope the joys of ponding will temper your loss. Bonnie NJ |
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Thanks all. The koi was our best looking, and one of the 12 that we
have and love. Jim |
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After I lost a few of my favorites I decided to really attack the
problem. Since I moved in 1999 and put in a new koi pond and veggie filter I have not added any new koi to the pond. After I lost 2 to infected eggs and one orfe to jumping, I netted the pond to keep birds out and fish in. I now cover and heat my zone 5 koi pond and feed the koi during winter so they dont have to go for 6 months without food and go thru such long periods without a functional immune system. After losing some of my favorite fish I found myself reluctant to go out to the pond, afraid of who I might find floating or gone. I still get a little worried in spring when I count whiskers and look to make sure they are all there.... and there are times when I spot what could be a floating corpse but is actually a chunk of floating lily bud and my heart races a bit. But mostly I am glad to go out to my pond to sit every day, morning to wake up, at night to sit mesmerized by the side lighting on the fish as they swim lazily in the pond and am not worried about losing them any more. I am becoming attached. Ingrid |
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