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Originally Posted by Karl_Mcknight
<slightly off topic but the above post reminded me of this>
My brother and his next door neighbor installed a huge pond in their backyards and stocked it with those Japanese Koi (fancy over prices gold fish). They had the electric pump and waterfall, the colored night lights, the fancy filters and such. They spared no expense on this pond and it really looked good for a while.
My brother used to brag about how "Some of those fish were 50 bucks each."
One day he was sitting on his back porch reading a magazine and drinking his morning coffee, when a Big Herron landed in the middle of his pond and ate about 4 or 5 of his fish. He ran down there and scared the bird away, but the next day there were 2 of them.
Today his pond is empty, his fish are gone, and his wife has planted a garden where the pond was.
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Yeah we get people in at PetSmart who bought a bunch of fancy koi for their frequently-too-shallow pond only to have them eaten by local herons and raccoons, so they replace them with feeder fish a few times before giving up. I want a nice koi pond someday, but it'd definitely be inside a screened patio.
Also hornworms at PetSmart are a BARGAIN $3.29 each.