Water Gardening: Catching Koi, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
Ellen

If it was a heron - the smaller fish would just disappear and the larger fish would be speared. You would find the larger fish, but with the spearing marks through the fish. If you were visited by a cat, then the fish would be clawed and you would find the clawed bodies of your koi. A coyote could have gotten them or an eagle. We do have eagles around here and coyotes, but have not had either of those situations happen.

I would think that in any of the scenarios, your remaining fish would act skiddish - typically that is what happens afterwards - I will tell you though that we did have an issue with a heron visiting our pond while we were out of town - this happened a couple of years ago. The fish did not act skiddish, which surprised us. We had noticed that our smaller fish and some of the fry were missing, but it was not until we saw the heron that we realized what was going on.

Do you have one of those sensor water sprayers? That may help as well, although I do think if an eagle or some type of hawk is visiting your pond that the water sprayer wouldn't matter much. How many fish do you have left?

MS - thank you. I never tire of my fish and love pictures of others fish and their ponds as well. How is your pond work coming?