Gave away all my orange comets!

[Reedman]

I just finished giving away all of my plain orange comets.  I thought about it over the winter and decided I only wanted shubunkins and sarassa/white comets.

I caught all of the plain orange comets, put them in a 100-gallon stock tank and put an ad in two of the supermarkets for free pond goldfish.  One lady took most of the small ones and a large (8") one.

A guy stopped by this afternoon and took the rest (2 massive 12" ones, 2 8" ones and a few small ones).  He has a 300'x400' mud-bottom on his industrial business property, stocked with koi and goldfish. 

I gave away around around a dozen and a half.  Now my pond isn't overstocked.   

[Esther]

You did better than I getting rid of the extra fish. One winter I pulled about a dozen out of the pond and put them in a preform, intending to turn them loose in a swamp on the farm of a friend. I waited too long and cold weather set in and they all died. Naughty me.

[Julles]

I'm glad they found good homes.

After one of Esther's famous rants, this time about overstocking, I went and caught a couple of koi, and took them out of the koi pond and put them in the turtle pond.  I advertised on FreeCycle.com, but no one wanted them.  No problem, they could live just fine in the turtle pond, even if it gets a little dirty before weekly cleanings.

Until... the damned 'coons and / or cats came and ate ALL but two goldfish.  That's five fish in one night - not eaten, but just bitten or partially chewed.  Naughty me.

[Double S]

I've been trying to do the same thing with all my oranges.  But I can't catch them   

[bunny56lbc]

Hey , that's GREAT !
I usally can get new home's for my extra goldies or koi .

bonnie

[Reedman]

I removed all of the lily pots in order to make netting them easier.  I figured it would be easier when the water was still pretty cold.  I got pretty good at netting them - herded them to one end corner and when the double-backed I was able to scoop them up.

I wanted to catch all of them before the spring spawning, since I really didn't want another generation of plain comets.

[Vickie]

I have 10 water gardens. And in some of them are just goldfish. Three of the others and koi and gold fish. I have had the goldfish a long time. But I still like them too.

[marla]

last year we gave away about 30 in varing sizes... our local pond dealer took quite a few, told him to give them away with his  new pond setups.  DH wants just the long finned goldfish/sarrassas and I'd like to get some more shubunkins, the heron got 2 of our 3 last year.

[miguynmkoi]

 :'( I need more plain ol' fish for my lily pools.  Raccoons may have eaten most of mine.  Either that or they jumped out and finned their way to the creek.     Oh well. 

You did good, Reedman.