yesterday i went out and bought two kio for my new pond i put them in and this morning i woke up and there gone WHAT COULD OF HAPPEND AND WHAT DO I DO :realmad: :realmad: :angry: :angry:
I lost about a dozen small ones this year, i was thinking Birds mostly got em. we lost a few when we had an unsexpected freeze last fall and the pond iced over and the small fountain pumped the pond just about dry...
we have enough of them i'd never miss a few... We are getting ready to start pumping some of the ponds and clean the silt and junk outa the bottom....and fix teh rocks that have been thrown in..dam kids
yesterday i went out and bought two kio for my new pond i put them in and this morning i woke up and there gone WHAT COULD OF HAPPEND AND WHAT DO I DO :realmad: :realmad: :angry: :angry:
Ok Just An Idea............go To Wally World And Get A Few Big El Cheapo Goldfish...............sit Up All Night In A Well Concealed Spot With A .22 Rifle With A Night Scope.., And Oh Yeah, If U Got A Cat You Might Wanna Take Him In The House. Worse Yet , If Its A Skunk, Dont Move And Definitely Dont Shoot !!
it is probably a blue heron. They can clean you out, I had the same problem. I bought a plastic decoy of a blue heron and placed it by the pond overlooking the water. Looks natural and solved my problem. Seems blue herons are territorial and will stay away if they see another. Add some under water grass, this will help put oxygen in the water and provide refuge.
do you have plants?
how deep is your pond?
do you have large rock in the pond?
it takes a koi awhile to get used to their new pond and could hide for days,
if you have some plants in the pond that will help them hide from heroins. Does your pond have staright sides (like a swimming pool) if it is sloped like and aquascapes pond? if it has straight sides it was most likely a heroin, if it has sloped sides with rocks it was most likely a raccoon, Aslo if it was a racoon the pond would be thrashed, plants torn up, rocks moved, and the pond would just be a mess.
second koi cannot be frozen then thawed out and survive. The can however handle freezin water, just not FROZEN water.
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