The pond Wednesday afternoon. I decided to kick up my feet, throw out a little koi food, and watch the action.... What else is there to a state of peace and comfort? LP

tmg1963, I have a 15" Chagoi. She was the queen of my pond for the first 8 months my pond was in operation. Very social and active. Then, because of a friend's situation, I came into possession of two "monsters" ( 19" male bekko and a 23" female ogon). When I introduced these fish to my pond after 6 weeks of "Q", my Chagoi went into hiding. She went to the furthest places in the pond, rarely swam around with the others, and cut way back on eatting. Her behavior concerned me because she was exhibiting signs of illness (isolation)(food loss). Now three weeks on and she still spends some time away from the others, but she seems to be adjusting. Also it doesn't hurt that she gets special attention from me; aka extra food (she is the only one who will come right up to the side to take food). In your situation, give it time. LP

Forgot to say this is a take all or none deal

I have two koi ponds. and this is the first year they didn't freeze at all and that's really scary. We took the heaters out the other day, never needed them once. When we moved here 30 years ago, there was a 1920's concrete pond someone filled in. We uncovered it and bought koi and goldfish. We knew nothing about ponds. We lost them one year when the pond froze over but did pretty well until the koi grew to huge sizes. So we built a big pond with a waterfall and the koi now are two feet long. This pond has caused me a lot of heartache though..like Lynn. One spring day about five years ago when the pond was new, my prize white koi was slaughtered by something. I found his decapitated body near by. The pond has been netted ever since. Then during the tornado and horrible storm last spring , we lost power for 36 hours and my big koi all died. The rest would have too if my SIL didn't run out and rent me a generator. At the end of last summer, I saw at least four tiny baby koi were born. My dead ones were like pets. I called them and they swam down to eat out of my hand.