Water Gardening: Indoor Baby Koi Pond Set-Up (with pictures), 0 by ic_conifers

ic_conifers wrote:
I did go through so much with that fish, it is really disheartening that I lost him through such a stupid way. I just had a bad feeling after I added the new fish. I felt like, WOW, I'm really getting to be a real fish keeper. I used my hands and gently took each one out of the bag and put it in the water after the bag had floated on the water for about 45 minutes. The two biggies, the tancho showa and the kujaku, are each eight inches if they are an inch, and girthy. I've always had this "ick" reaction to touching fish but over the past few months I've worked past that and confidently handled the fish yesterday so I wouldn't add the nasty water that they travelled in to the pond. Then this morning, I saw that Poppy had found the ONE hole in the netting. I have some choice words for that fish.

When my hubby came running, while I was crying and screaming (he thought I fell down the stairs from the noise I was making), he just looked at me and said "No more naming fish." It is so true, none of the new ones are going to get names.

I should be grateful, the new fish are really gorgeous. The pictures don't do justice to them, they are so much better looking "in person." The gin hi utsuri is the only long finned in the bunch and is the smalled but is fascinating to watch.

Rick had some huge beauties and is getting new ones in next week, which he'll quarantine for some period of time (60 days I think) and will then send to new homes, if they are sold. Hubby snapped this picture of me gawking at the biggies. Many of these are Rick's personal pond fish, he overwinters them inside.