drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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Here is my koi Lucy, 26" more or less, the day that I bought her...
I won an auction on ebay for her, drove about 140 mile round trip to pick her up for the bargain price of £65 (probably worth around £300). Ive had her for just over 2 years. Anyway, I get back from uni today to find this...
Moral of the story, either fish are stupid or she had mental problems that drove her to suicide 
(PS, for anyone actually worried about the reasons as to why she jumpued out, Ive checked pH, O2, ammonia, nitrite and paracites with no suspicious results)
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Marc
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andy1868
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thats your supper sorted then
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J da Silva
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Credit crunch pushed her over the edge, or do you have a hungry bird of prey flying about?
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Cheese Man Chris
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She looked a nice fish, shame she jumped out.
Probably just twitched and jumped out by mistake.
You sure she was dead?? Iv'e had fish jump out and dry out in the sun for hours, I'd find them put them back in the pond pull them backwards in the water so it goes through their gills and they come round again after a few hours
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sand-eel
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Butler
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Eat it!
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Stu_22
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Mine are just sitting on the bottom of the pond being lazy
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a_j_mair
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how are your ponds getting on?
shame bout the fish
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Cheese Man Chris
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Yeah, pic of said pond....
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drunkenfool
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We took the net off about 10 days ago cos now the weather is getting better we have started doing more work on the garden trying to get it sorted. In fact we started over amonth ago, cut down loads of trees and shedded them with an industrial chipper (fun  ) and doing loads of other bits and pieces... but started sorting out the pond area about 10 days ago. This is the most recent pic that I have, that I took today after putting a new temporary net back up on there to stop any more from jumping out!
I'll have to put some more pics up when its all finished but Im in my last 2 months of uni now so doing bits and pieces when I can, but will be able to finish it as soon as I finish uni and just before I move away to try and find a job
PS im a bit tipsy, sorry if ive written an essay but I hardly ever drink any more haha
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Cheese Man Chris
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Thats awesome! Congrats on being tipsy also!
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Richie B
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Reported to RSPCA
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Cheese Man Chris
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Drunkenfool hardly ever drinks anymore? 
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drunkenfool
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tell me about it. I was gonna change my username about 3 1/2 years ago when I got arrested and turned my life around, but never got round to it lol. Uni finishes in 2 months though so Im gonna have to get a new email adress anyway. I hate getting old
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Ste
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I put 50 koi fry in last summer and haven't seen them since! They just hide at the bottom of the pond where it is about 10foot deep and full of drain pipes for them to sleep in. The food seems to be going over the last few days though. started putting the floating stuff out for them. unless the ducks are eating it!
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Leighton
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I am getting a fishing rod now Ste, see what i can get
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Daimo B
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Do Koi jump out then???????
We've got 2 Koi, about 30cm long. We went into the garden to find one flapping about on the stream bed. Although it had nearly stopped.
I rushed over, picked it up and put it back in the pond, but had to hold it in the water as it went sideways for ages.
Couple of hours later it was fine, but I put it down to either an over-ambitious bird, or a Herring that lost its catch.
We keep our net over during the day as we live near the coast = sea fish eating birds
Ste, mine sit at the bottom too, they are quite shy. Pop some food in and as it gets warmer ours get more confident.
Bloody quick swimmers too!!!!
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ShEp
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Probably got CS under there and got sick of reading Will_Doyle's threads tbh
[Edited on 01-04-2009 by ShEp]
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Faye_2003
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We had a heron take a lot of ours they sometimes give up and drop em when they a bit heavy
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mwg
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do ponds take much looking after? lots of maintenance required or not?
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FruitBooTeR
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Happed to me a few times but can normaly see them from bedroom window flapping for their lives so i run down and put them back in.
Did loose one last year though as i was too late was my biggest one also
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
do ponds take much looking after? lots of maintenance required or not?
Not too much. Especially a singular pond
Keep the pump running a lot during the summer. I manually remove the algie.
My main problem is my lower pond is starting to fillup with mud (that trickles down the stream), but I can't empty it as theres so many little bugs, a few small fish I can't catch, some plants, and a few newts. Next winter it is.
If you like wildlife its great. We sit in the garden, get birds coming for baths, we've only got 3 frogs at the moment, but also get newts and all sorts coming to the garden. Its good.
If you've got space, get one in
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J da Silva
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I've got a mini lake it more or less runs itself nowadays, I have allsort in there, bream, tench, all the carps, barbel, small ones like roach and perch (keep the population down a bit), I have some colourful ones too but they have bred with the stillwater fish and made some weirdo's, the main problem for me was the death toll as the pond was turning more and more wild, but they have their own food chain now and every now and then I'll treat them and throw strawberry hemp in or sweetcorn, sometimes if I've been fishing and I've got some maggots or casters left over, I throw the lot in.
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gavin18787
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One of my Chiclids jumped out of my tank when I was cleaning it once. after chasing it around the floor it got put back in 
been fine for 5 years + now
Drives supercharged Tec with torque 
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