Re: birds/ponds

LOL!  I did check the plants.  They fared ok.  When I saw  the fish this 
morning, they were mostly hitting the rocks and missing the  pots -- which kinda 
looked like it would hurt.  I also counted the fish --  they are all in the 
pond where they should be.
 
Donna, do you have only koi in your pond?  This is my first year with  koi 
(they are very small).  I have had only goldfish in the pond until a  few weeks 
ago when I fell in love with a couple of 2 inch ghost koi.  It is  the 
goldfish who are spawning.  I didn't see the koi anywhere.  I  guess they were trying 
to stay out of the way.  
 

Eva
Long  Island, NY
Zone 6/7

In a message dated 5/11/2005 9:01:37  P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
gossiper@sbcglobal.net writes:


So Eva,  do you have any plants still in the pots tonight? When my bigger
fish spawn  there is nothing safe in that pond... came home to floating pots
on more  than one occasion. Might also want to check that no one got flipped
out of  the pond too...

So I guess you will be looking for homes for fish soon  too....

I went to a class on koi. The last day we each got a sick koi,  did an
ortopsy (sp?), and learned all the organs and stuff inside. Mine was  a
female full of eggs. Amazing how many they have! BTW, to pass the class,  I
had to put everything back into the fish in the proper place. It was a  very
interesting class.

Donna
And yes Kitty, I did pass the  class.


> 
> Donna, is right.  They require a little  work here and there, but it's
> *fun*
> work.
> 
> The  pond is really not a hassle, but definitely a GIANT DISTRACTION.    I
> find
> that I get distracted when I'm supposed to be weeding  another gardening
> area, and I have to walk past the pond to get  something out of the shed
> ...
> forget about it -- 15 minutes  easy wasted while I'm gazing at the pond,
> watching
> the fish do  their *fishy* things.
> 
> I was late to work this morning because  I was watching the pond.  The
> fish
> were spawning like  CRAZY!  It was the most activity that I've ever  seen
>  from
> these fish.  They were swimming so fast around the pond  and  smacking each
> other around like crazy.
> 
>  
> Eva
> Long  Island, NY
> Zone  6/7

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