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Pond Tragedy (long post)
True story: my vet told me about a friend of hers who came out one morning
to find a dead bass in her pond and a koi missing. It seems that one of our fish-eating birds had caught a bass and was flying back to the nest with it when s/he spotted this nice, clean pond with brightly colored fish in it. It dropped the bass and took home a nice koi for her kids, instead. Children LIKE bright colors, ya know! Maybe yours got dropped??? Lee "BenignVanilla" m wrote in message ... "Just Me "Koi"" wrote in message ... We must have offended the pond gods! snip From the "we must have offended the pond gods" department. I drained about 50% of the water out of my pond yesterday and got in to clean out as much mud as I could. The Calcite definitely helped as there was about 5 inches of clay on the bottom of the pond. I refilled slowly over hours, and did not treat the water. I know, I know, no need to tell me. The water is still cloudy but I plan to give it a day or so. So we're standing there, and my wife says, "I'd be so happy to see a fish", and WHAM there goes a fish eating a bug. We went out last night, and when we came home, I saw 3-4 fish swimming along, chomping on bugs. Now here is the gods part. I found a dead fish. I suspect the surge of new water untreated did him in. I should be punished. But here is the weird part. I have no idea what the fish was. To date, I have put a few minnows and 2 25 cent goldies in. This fish was way too big to be one of my minnows and way to small to be one of the goldies. I am perplexed. BV. |
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Pond Tragedy (long post)
Really trippy! Strange things happens to us ponders! God knows what else
is in our pond!!! -- _______________________________________ "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: The chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." http://community.webshots.com/user/godwino "Lee Brouillet" wrote in message ... True story: my vet told me about a friend of hers who came out one morning to find a dead bass in her pond and a koi missing. It seems that one of our fish-eating birds had caught a bass and was flying back to the nest with it when s/he spotted this nice, clean pond with brightly colored fish in it. It dropped the bass and took home a nice koi for her kids, instead. Children LIKE bright colors, ya know! Maybe yours got dropped??? Lee "BenignVanilla" m wrote in message ... "Just Me "Koi"" wrote in message ... We must have offended the pond gods! snip From the "we must have offended the pond gods" department. I drained about 50% of the water out of my pond yesterday and got in to clean out as much mud as I could. The Calcite definitely helped as there was about 5 inches of clay on the bottom of the pond. I refilled slowly over hours, and did not treat the water. I know, I know, no need to tell me. The water is still cloudy but I plan to give it a day or so. So we're standing there, and my wife says, "I'd be so happy to see a fish", and WHAM there goes a fish eating a bug. We went out last night, and when we came home, I saw 3-4 fish swimming along, chomping on bugs. Now here is the gods part. I found a dead fish. I suspect the surge of new water untreated did him in. I should be punished. But here is the weird part. I have no idea what the fish was. To date, I have put a few minnows and 2 25 cent goldies in. This fish was way too big to be one of my minnows and way to small to be one of the goldies. I am perplexed. BV. |
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