"Tail Lamp Failure"
10-24-2008 | 08:52 AM
#34
Racer
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 317
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From: Allentown, PA
Sidehatch,
That is a pic of the pond in my backyard. Creating ponds such as this is one of the things that I do for a living. (I hope my avatar pic does not violate any Rennlist solicitation rules...)
All Best,
Allen in Allentown, PA
That is a pic of the pond in my backyard. Creating ponds such as this is one of the things that I do for a living. (I hope my avatar pic does not violate any Rennlist solicitation rules...)
All Best,
Allen in Allentown, PA
10-24-2008 | 10:14 AM
#35
Race Car
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 4,165
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From: Fla
Cool pond Allen, We have a 9,300 gallon pond in our back yard. Took several years to get it finished up as we wanted it. Of course, the river otters have come multiple times randomly over the past two years to wipe out thousands of dollars of prized & pet Koi!! So now that all of our Koi are long gone, we just keep Comet Goldfish, Platties, Mollies & the like. Good thing those loveable otters are pretty much protected. I'm thinkin the lawmakers here in Fla. don't have koi ponds!!
10-24-2008 | 06:58 PM
#36
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 770
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These fish live year round,even in winter as long as the pond doesnt freeze all the way to the bottom?
10-25-2008 | 10:25 AM
#41
Racer
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 317
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From: Allentown, PA
This is now SO off topic but since I do enjoy the topic of ponds and koi, I will share a story about a fish in my pond:
One of my fish in the pond (a high grade Showa Sanshoku probably worth about $2000) caught a disease (dropsy) which makes the scales stand out like a pine cone (usually fatal). One possible cure is warming the water. I brought him in to my quarantine tank, installed the heater and walked away. I came back about a half hour later. No fish in the 50 gallon tank. I found him on the other side of the basement (about 20 feet). He had flipped through sawdust across the entire floor left from a carpentry project. Basically a shake-n-bake fish now, stiff as a nail file. His lips were still barely moving so I plunged him back in to the water. A wave of shocking pain went up my arm. The heater glass was cracked permitting stray voltage to enter the water.
I pulled the heater and grabbed my oxygen cylinder. I bled a light stream of oxygen into the koi's mouth and over the gills. I kept the fish moving from side to side to exercise his blood flow. 10 minutes or so later, the fish began jerking a bit. About an hour later, he was swimming around. The koi lives today. His name is now Lazarus. 
One of my fish in the pond (a high grade Showa Sanshoku probably worth about $2000) caught a disease (dropsy) which makes the scales stand out like a pine cone (usually fatal). One possible cure is warming the water. I brought him in to my quarantine tank, installed the heater and walked away. I came back about a half hour later. No fish in the 50 gallon tank. I found him on the other side of the basement (about 20 feet). He had flipped through sawdust across the entire floor left from a carpentry project. Basically a shake-n-bake fish now, stiff as a nail file. His lips were still barely moving so I plunged him back in to the water. A wave of shocking pain went up my arm. The heater glass was cracked permitting stray voltage to enter the water.
I pulled the heater and grabbed my oxygen cylinder. I bled a light stream of oxygen into the koi's mouth and over the gills. I kept the fish moving from side to side to exercise his blood flow. 10 minutes or so later, the fish began jerking a bit. About an hour later, he was swimming around. The koi lives today. His name is now Lazarus.
