Water Gardening: Brugmansias & Koi?, 0 by BogweedBuck

BogweedBuck wrote:
Yeah, it's common mating season behavior, but they also do that nonsense for seemingly no reason at times. I've not seen any of my babies jump for grins and giggles for a couple/few months, tho. Of course, who knows what that little spawn of satan are up to while I'm not around the yard.

Also ... koi can be real jumpers when things are not to their liking, especially a pond too small, during times of great durress (ie: a pond being drained) or when they're in "temporary quarters." I had a BEAUTIFUL metallic orange koi (a domestic variation of the Orenji Matsuba) that jumped 2 weeks ago when the step-son and his dad had all of my babies in a cooler. I asked that the cooler lid be kept lightly closed, but not enough to cut off the little hoses from the air pump, but curiosity and forgetfullness got the better of him the next morning. By the time I arrived from the airport, my little pond-monkey Orenji was several feet away from the cooler and had given up the ghost. I'ver read that many fish will do that in the hopes of finding a larger, fresher body of water close by. (shrugs)

What's a shame is the fact that we had three coolers still under the willow tree (from a party we threw for a neighbor the night before we left town) and they chose to put all 15 survivors in the smallest cooler. Heck, there was a 4-way valve on the air pump! Matt said it was because they could only scratch up enough water from the pond liner folds to fill only one cooler .

Oh well ... RIP, Orenji!