The warm weather has really woken my fish up. One of the koi wanted to eat something dangling from the net stretched over the pond and jumped clear out of the water today. Twice. The fish in general have been very, very active, and the only thing that is keeping me from giving them a snack is the algae I want them to eat first.
On this point, my pond started to get a little foamy in the late afternoon. I thought, It can't be...it's February. That stuff doesn't start until June. But since my fish count more than quadrupled in one year, I wonder. I mean, it can't be starting already, can it? The air temperature here hit in the mid-70s today and might reach 80 tomorrow. The fish were active already, so I don't know what else could explain the sudden, low-level foaming. I could be in for a very long year.
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