Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

["Connie Carlson" <nwconniec@hotmail.com>]

Hey, glad to help!  It was great fun wading around in your pond with nets, and 
thanks for the 3 little souvenirs!  They are getting bigger...   ;+)

Very sorry to hear you lost one though.  Rotten raccoons!  The perils of 
overlapping territories I suppose.

In case anyone doesn't know, Steev has about a dozen of the biggest koi I have 
EVER seen; they are bigger than sockeye salmon.  I was amazed, and wish I had a 
photo of him wrestling with them in that net!  Maybe next year.

How many eggs did you get?
Connie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steev Ward<mailto:steevward@yahoo.com> 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
chat<mailto:gsas-member@thekrib.com> 
  Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions


  On the bright side: I just checked, and the koi in big pond are laying eggs 
like crazy.
  Thanks Connie, for helping get that pond ready - it worked! I think I'll go 
collect
  some eggs.

  Steev


  --- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com<mailto:haika@drizzle.com>> wrote:

  > I know I know....I've been through similar experiences with my chickens
  > and raccoons (sigh). I put heavy metal dog crate wire floor pieces over my
  > smaller mini-ponds (because my dogs EAT waterlilies....grump), but I'm
  > thinking the stock ponds are too deep/high. Maybe I'm naive (weak
  > grin).....I've heard of swimming raccoons but not ones that dive down
  > roughly 4'.
  > 
  > Betty Goetz - PONDering the raccoon issue (get it????)
  > 
  > >     I try to take every precaution against racoon assaults, but I just
  > > lost one 10 inch
  > > koi yesterday. I was keeping him in a large tub, with a lid, because he
  > > seemed skinnier
  > > than the rest and I left the lid off so I could watch and see if he was
  > > eating his
  > > food. I forgot to put it back on before I went to bed and the next day he
  > > was in pieces
  > > on the lawn.
  > >      It guess it takes something like that to remind me to not take
  > > chances when it
  > > comes to raccoons.
  > >
  > > Steev
  > 
  > _____ 


        
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