Water Gardening: Are Koi smarter or just more suspiscious???, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
I have found at this time of the year, the koi tend to swim away from me in that very slow flowing way. I have found this in previous years too. I don't know why it isn't until the water seems to warm up that the koi seem to be more friendly and will come towards me. Perhaps it is a safety mechanism as the koi are so mucn slower in the cooler water than in the warmer water.

When we had goldfish, they were always more active in the pond at any given time during the year, than the koi. In the winter they would come to the surface of the water right up by the hole in the ice where the deicer was. I typically did not and still do not see the koi until the ice has melted from the pond.