hello, I am new to this forum, but I have had my pond 3 summers now. Well, it was a larger pond, but I had to reconfigure due to leaking issues, so now it is smaller and a bit more manageable. I have recently gotten a mature koi from a friend, I have a younger/smaller koi, two shebunkin, 4 orange comets, one orange and white comet, three one-year old comet/shebunkin mixes and who knows how many fry at this point...I have counted ten, but they are pretty good at hiding. Of course my pond is nowhere near 'finished'! I am planning a waterfall feature that goes under a bridge and falls into a larger pond some day in the future...my timetable is about 5 years from now. The reason I stopped by here is the rescue that happened today. The white and orange comet decided to jump out of the shallow end, the flies had found him, and I was sure he was a goner. I poured a little water on him and his gill moved! So I sat with him in my hand moving him back and forth til he started gulping for water and moving a bit. I then put him in one of the Rubbermaid stock tanks with an aerator and a screen cover because he would not have been able to rest in the pond with the large koi who immediately went after him. I hope he makes it, since it will be neat to tell his survival story....if only I had known this trick when my blue koi had jumped out last fall before I could get the tank covered! He was a little more stiff, so I doubt he woulda made it, but I still miss him. Anyway, glad to be here.