Since I shared the koi pond so often, I’ll share this, too. June 13, we had an ammonia spike and lost half of the koi. All my larger babies are gone. The pond outside my office window is empty now because we moved the survivors back into the old pond out front. It breaks my heart to even think about it, so imagine how much it hurts to sit here and look out my office window and not see them there.
Working on beta reports on book one and writing a little on book two. Sort of. I just… don’t have it in me today.
I’m so sorry…. *HUGS*
Hope the water mellows out and your fish hang in there…
Lisa
We drained the pond, so all I see out there is plastic and tubing. There’s a guy we’re trying to get in touch with for a consultation just to be sure there’s nothing wrong with our system. I don’t think there is, I think accidents just happen.
On a good note, all six that remain are swimming out front. There’s just a big hole in my “happy”.
Aw. I’m so sorry to read this, Astrea.
Thanks, Deb.
That pond guy just left and he assured us that the construction and the filtration on the pond are both fine, and that we didn’t do anything wrong. He didn’t even charge us anything for the consult because he was so baffled by the whole thing. He’d say something, explain it out loud, then shake his head and say out loud why what he’d just said was wrong. Sort of talking to us – talking it out – and yet talking to himself. He was very cool, and very confused by it all.
But he did say that we’re good fish-parents – our remaining fish, he said, are very, very healthy – and that we shouldn’t be afraid to crank her back up.
I can’t find one of my new wigglers.The bekko – the black and white one, I can find, but not the tiger striped one
*sigh* He’s either in there, or he’s joined his brothers and sisters. I can’t start fretting again or it’ll make me nuts.