Urgent help please.. 23" koi problem

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grehbeh

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Came home today and a Herein had eaten a lot of my gold fish and found some of my beautiful koi on the ground 4 are left in the pond 2 healthy and one that has puncture marks about 3 and is spinning upside down... What do I do... Never had this happen its a Tragedy. Please post immediately. I had my mom run out to the pond store and get some net to put over but I don't know what to do about the hurt fish


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You will have to cover the pond. The pictured fis is, sadly, gone.
 
it's not a tragedy, it's life. I get you feel bad, I've lost fish to heron too, along with cats, dogs, and racoons - but revenge against a bird for being hungry? not cool. learn your lesson and move on.
 
Gill Blue said:
it's not a tragedy, it's life. I get you feel bad, I've lost fish to heron too, along with cats, dogs, and racoons - but revenge against a bird for being hungry? not cool. learn your lesson and move on.
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Don't be an ass I said it out of anger and I'm sure you've been there too when you've had fish you've cared or for 10+ years only to be ended by being pecked to death I think you'd feel the same. Today I put two of my fish out of misery. Don't tell me to learn my lesson. Thanks to everyone else who wished me well


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I don't think Gil was being an ass or anything like that.He might have been a little insensitive but was only telling it like it is.I know what it's like to have koi taken out by wildlife.I had a raccoon clean me out of some really nice young butterfly koi which caused me to shut the pond down because I was so pissed off about it.


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This is very unfortunate and I'm sorry for your loss. As others have said this is all too common. I'm right by an inland pacific bay here in Costa Mesa and we have GIANT birds here frequently. I think nets and covers are ugly and take away a lot of the appeal of having a pond but there would be no other way to have one here.

There was a lady back in the 90's that I read about. She had a lot of property with a nice pond and stocked it with some high $$ koi. Then a bald eagle decided to eat her fish and not only would fish and game not do anything about the bird (she wanted it killed or removed.. funny I know.. national bird.) they also told her since it was a natural pond on the property she couldn't cover it because it was a natural food source for the eagle. She had to deal with losing thousands of dollars worth of fish!
 
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