rescue fish from westminster maryland

[addy1]

My honey and I went out and picked up the fish. Beautiful house, neat pond built into the concrete of the front porch. Scalloped edges, beautiful fish.

It was approximately 45 minute drive to get them. My honey being pretty smart, took some wide pvc, drilled a few holes in the end of the pipe. As we drove home (water has had no o2 input except what they pumped in once) we had the pvc hanging out the windows pointed forward, air cranked down the pvc and bubbled in the water in the tubs. We wanted to stress them as little as possible.

The following are pictures of the fish we picked up.

One very fat gold fish,

Scales are not sticking out, so don't think dropsy, swimming around and appears healthy.

a few long fins, brilliant orange

 

[addy1]

then there were ones that had orange and white, long fins

 

[addy1]

some basic looking gold fish

about three white ones, one large two smaller

 

[Jas2Cats]

Wow Addy~! Glad you were able to rescue them~! I like honey's idea with the PVC~! You must have been a site driving down the road

 

[taherrmann4]

Great Job!

 

[addy1]

Then the wow factor! These fish do not have barbells, I don't think they are koi, but they are around 18 inches in length with their fins

 

[addy1]

Wow Addy~! Glad you were able to rescue them~! I like honey's idea with the PVC~! You must have been a site driving down the road

we had people looking!

 

[addy1]

We had no real place to qt them, they looked healthy, no spots, no rot, so into the pond they went.

Their pond was a covered deck no sunlight or sky, they swam around then went and hid below the lilies.

Their new home

 

[mogsie]

some nice looking fish you got there addy

 

[addy1]

some nice looking fish you got there addy

Thanks mogsie, I was almost wondering if those long fins, butterfly type were koi, but no barbells that I could see. They are all around 15-18 inches counting fins.

 

[mogsie]

Thanks mogsie, I was almost wondering if those long fins, butterfly type were koi, but no barbells that I could see. They are all around 15-18 inches counting fins.

yes they are called butterfly comets i believe

 

[j.w]

Yippee the fish are saved and safe and sound in their new home! What a nice looking group of fish and some are huge. Wonder if they could be half koi and half goldies..........is their such a thing? I have seen goldfish that big tho so they are prolly goldies.
What a deal and so happy for them and you getting your pond filled w/ some beauties! They must be so happy in that big huge pond.

 

[fishin4cars]

One good thing, They appear to be Comets, But there is the possibility they are Koi comet hybrids, If they are they will be sterile, so they can't reproduce. and they won't get as large as a true koi. I've seen pics of coets that were very large and appeared to be far larger than those guys so i think they are just fancy sarassa comets.

 

[addy1]

yes they are called butterfly comets i believe

Thanks mogsie, I did a search and didn't find anything yesterday, so was wondering. I just don't want koi even though they are beautiful. My garden pond set up would not work with them i.e. the plants.

Yippee the fish are saved and safe and sound in their new home! What a nice looking group of fish and some are huge. Wonder if they could be half koi and half goldies..........is their such a thing? I have seen goldfish that big tho so they are prolly goldies.
What a deal and so happy for them and you getting your pond filled w/ some beauties! They must be so happy in that big huge pond.

I was wondering the same jw, they are so beautiful, the white one started swimming with the herd right away, the red one is in hiding under the lilies. But all are doing good as of late evening yesterday.

One good thing, They appear to be Comets, But there is the possibility they are Koi comet hybrids, If they are they will be sterile, so they can't reproduce. and they won't get as large as a true koi. I've seen pics of coets that were very large and appeared to be far larger than those guys so i think they are just fancy sarassa comets.

One thing fishin, I was concerned about the fat one, no scales sticking out, I did searches on dropsie, I don't think it has that, my honey said he had some gf that looked like that. The water they were in was really foul, stunk to high heaven when we went to take the fish out and the muck got stirred up, bubbles floating to the surface, oil slick look. Would you mind looking at the picture closely let me know if I should be concerned.

 

[ididntdoit99]

Those are some great looking fish! I really like that big white one with the butterfly fins. Great deal, for you and the fish.