Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

   I just grabbed out a bunch of plant roots with eggs all over them and threw 
them in
a tub. Don't really know what I'm going to do with them all. I'm taking 
pictures of the
spawning - we will definately have a lot of talk about ponds in the September
newsletter.


Steev


--- Connie Carlson <nwconniec@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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