Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

["Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>]

Can koi handle our winters, or do you take them inside when it gets cold?

I know nothing about koi, but recently happened onto some cool photos of
fancy glowing white fish with long flowing white fins.  Are the eggs you
have from a fancy variety or a more "goldfish" looking variety?  (and no
offense meant to the goldfish aficionados...just didn't know how else to
ask!).

Cliff

>    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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