Hey - Houston calling

[j.w]

jamajid

I saw the nice photos of your pond and glad your fish are showing up and eating. Sounds like you are feeling much better :cheerful:

 

[jmajid]

jw:
yes, much happier to see the three surviving fish schooling...eating...doing anything but hiding!
now thinking of adding fish to make the group move on from being survivors to residents

 

[j.w]

I would not rush out and get any new ones too soon. You might want to watch the survivors and make certain things are going to be good for awhile. I know you are eager but better perhaps to wait.

 

[jmajid]

jw: agreed - im thinking - my more patient wife is telling me to wait also
right now im looking into QT and what that will take... so im trying to keep myself occupied that way.
rather interestingly the local water garden also said to wait a little while before adding - nice to see they are not there just to sell me fish....

 

[Dave's pond Indiana]

Glad to hear that the fish are doing better. That retailer that suggested you wait might be a good source of info. if so pick his brain and then make up your own mind. Remember be patient .

 

[sissy]

and they will have babies ,well as long as least one of them is a female :cheerful:

 

[jmajid]

thanks dave and sissy
yes, he took the time to help me - i will lean on him... and y'all here too!

 

[sissy]

At least he was honest .I see the 2 we have here just want to sell you stuff .I think in 11 years I must have given away lots of my baby fish every year .I tried to keep my number to 13 fish .Right now I have 18 and a month ago I gave 10 to a fellow ponder from NC and he gave me 2 lotus tubers .I feel I got more than I gave .He has lots of really big healthy lotus like addy has .3 big 100 gallon tubs of them

 

[jmajid]

my wife and i went looking at another local water garden - it was a sunday - only one person manning the place with a very friendly cat.
Saw some HUGE koi and a VERY big pleco!
we were looking for some floating planters for the pond - the lady was pretty nice, told us to come back in a month or two as the plants were not good right now.
So thats another watergarden that seems to offer advice over selling...
their fish were in good ponds, but the leaf nets were covered in leaves - unlike the other place we saw a few weeks back.
The fish here were also more scared as we walked past - but i guess this is ok?

 

[shakaho]

Once source of help is your local koi/pond club. My quick google search showed that there is both a koi club and a pond club in Houston. I promise you that one or both of these will have people who are delighted to come out, check out your pond, show you how to maintain everything, and when everything is healthy, give you some nice fish, or at least sell them super cheap..

 

[sissy]

Better to have them scared of predators than be eaten .Plus fish get friendlier with more 1 on 1 with the person feeding them .

 

[jmajid]

shakaho: thanks - yes i will get in touch with one of those groups as soon as i know what i want to ask! (
sissy: totally agree with you - better scared until, they know "the shadow"

 

[sissy]

once the fish get used to you feeding them they will welcome you whole hardly .I can tell each of my fish personalities .

 

[jmajid]

sissy: yes, for the three survivors, i can tell they have distinctly different ways to approach the food and me... but all three wait to eat, like they are waiting to see if the food is real or not - or perhaps they decide to ignore it at first and then eat it after about 5 minutes of it sitting there....