They are for us. We have been observed sitting for hours simply watching the baby koi eat. They love tiny freeze dried shrimp, flaked fish food and hard boiled eggs. Yes, we have cooked for our fish.... don't laugh, I bet you've given your cat tuna or your dog a bit of beef now and again.
We discovered the other night, in a temporary silly moment, that baby koi really enjoy Wheat Thins. Perhaps it was foolish of us, but we decided to share small parts of our appetizer plate with the babies. They loved the crackers!!
The plan for the fall is as follows: we will cover the ponds with netting near the end of September before the big maple tree starts dropping its leaves creating a maple tea in the ponds which, if permitted to go unchecked, sucks out all the oxygen thus drowning the fish. The netting will also keep out Big Blue (the great blue herron on his migration stopover), beautiful, majestic and relentless fish murderer. Big Blue caused the death of seven very beautiful and quite innocent fish one year. He will be stopped by the netting. But beware - if he is stopped at our pond, he will find another - maybe yours????We plan to bring in 30 or so baby fish to live in aquariums for the winter to provide us with entertainment and companionship - since we don't see our outside fish for the entire season. The 30 or so largest fish will be transferred to the bigger of the two ponds where they will, we hope, have the best chance to survive the winter.
The other 1000 babies will put Darwinism to the test and survive if they are strong enough.See you in the Spring!!
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