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16 years ago

Well I haven't posted much lately I have been pretty busy trying to rebuild our ponds. I have no idea what happened this past winter but we lost 15 fish and the upper pond completely collapsed into itself. I was so upset seeing all the dead fish. I have been trying to figure out what happened and for the life of me I just can't. We aren't the only ones to have lost fish, while at the store talking there were two others who had an astounding loss also. It really was quite a harsh winter I guess. Just so very sad to see beautiful 15 & 18" koi floating. Today I was redoing some of the brick work on the upper pond. Still lots more work to be done but I thought I would just drop a line to say Hi, I'm still around, just busy trying to get things done before too much growth.

Taigen

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hayjud_mn
16 years ago
I think ponds are a LOT of work, and then to lose so many fish, that is sad. It must take many years to get those fish that big.

I don't do ponds, but I do have a lot of flowers and it is so dissapointing when many of them don't survive the winter.

If you have a problem with the pond, I hope you get it figured out, and next year should be better.

When you get it done, we'd love to see pictures!
bestlawn
16 years ago
Yes, would love to pics. Sorry about losing so many fish and hope rebuilding isn't too expensive.
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