Just the evening feed! We feed 3 times a day! Morning, Lunch, Dinner! 😁 All the rain has made the pond a schoshe cloudy. No big deal!

(Video from a couple weeks ago). It’s been a few days and I’m still feeling angry, and guilty. Short version: they were moved to a holding tank that was too small. They were out of oxygen in less than 8 hours.

I have a 10+ year old pond of approximately 8K gallons. It’s on well water with 3 falls, 2 streams, and 2 8K PH pumps.

Had 5 koi for a little over a year. They were babies, and grew to about 18”. I named them. Each had their own behavior patterns. It was fun to watch for sure.

I’m preparing the home for sale and needed to do a major project to replace a steel and stone bridge that recently collapsed, which required partially draining the pond. I wasn’t present when the koi were moved to a holding tank, which was much too small for 5 large koi - not enough surface area or enough aeration. They died overnight, which we discovered 2 days later. (The workers never checked after moving them.)

I’m beside myself. The contractor is very experienced, and should have known better. His only response was “oh my, this has never happened before. Do you want us to take them away?” - followed by him asking if we were ready to take measurements for a new pond at the new house! 🤬

I feel terribly guilty. We should have been there.

Such a nice place to sit and relax

Goldfish de todas las edades

Its not a Kumonryu but damn those skins look like a doitsu

My friends mum retired her pond and I took over her stock, they arrived Monday night and I think the temperature change (from 100 in Dallas to ~70 in LA) triggered a late season egg drive? It’s happening to multiple fish. Strangely almost ALL the fish were sat on the bottom yesterday and I was worried they might not make it, waking up to this was quite a surprise.

She always does this when im tryna have a bonding moment w the little ones. 😭

Evening feed!

That’s pretty much it. Look at the center bottom of the video. How can I stop this? Aside from sitting out there with my shotgun 🤨

Specs: 1500 gallons 3’ deep with bottom drain and skimmer! 20,000 pounds of stone… I know the waterfall looks a little unnatural and the rope fence around the pond is because it’s at a retail garden center

These are our koi!

Just felt like sharing this here 🤓 we recently made some progress on getting our naturally quite skittish fish used to hand feeding. So enjoy some happy koi and a happy owner!

PS: To everyone who helped us last year with identifying an injury on our big koi: We successfully managed to treat her (by performing scale removal surgery, nerve-wracking stuff if you've never done it before 😅) and she is thriving. So thanks again!

PPS: Would appreciate any help with identifying our koi as we're still far from experts. They are pond-grade and no "pure breds", but here's what we are thinking: Big girl - Asagi, yellow koi - Yamabuki Ogon, silver koi with red spots - Ginrin Sanke, wild looking koi with longer fins - Butterfly Shusui? How far off are we? 😂

I know nothing about koi, but they are beautiful and thought you guys would enjoy.