Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

I've seen some pretty neat looking white comet goldfish with long flowing
fins. All my current white comets have the wild-type stubby fins.

Betty Goetz

> 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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