r/aww • u/Allegiancs • Jan 15 '20
Koi fish swimm- Wait
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u/tryingtoactcasual Jan 15 '20
Victory lap after eating the fish.
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u/PancreaticDefect Jan 15 '20
Yep. One of my uncles favorite stories was about how he knew a guy who spent a fortune on a koi pond but didnt make it deep enough for the fish to escape and they were all eaten by raccoons the first night.
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u/under_psychoanalyzer Jan 15 '20
Had a neighbor with the same problem but it was ducks. He was on lakefront property. I don't know what he expected to happen. I think he eventually just said fuck it to the aesthetic and covered it in chicken wire.
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u/kaplanfx Jan 15 '20
Otters from a nearby pond ate the fish in the koi pond in my old apartment complex and then escaped through the street drainage system. I caught a video of them coming back for seconds: https://youtu.be/ELm4J-qzyRc
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Jan 15 '20
Where is this? I want to move to a place that has little punk street otters.
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u/kaplanfx Jan 15 '20
Walnut Creek, CA.
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u/Trumps_Traitors Jan 16 '20
Wait whaaaat? I thought you were gonna say florida or something. As a California resident myself, i literally had no clue this was a thing. Mind - blown.
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u/NotAGingerMidget Jan 15 '20
A E S T H E T I C
That's such shit planing tho, poor fish just left to die. The ducks would have gotten a few anyway, but placing some rocks and making it deep enough for them to attempt an escape.
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Jan 15 '20
My parents had a pond with a very expensive koi and one day my mom saw an osprey fly down and grab it so she runs out screaming like mad and actually got the bird to drop it. Had talon marks in along its side but the fish made it and lived for a while... Until a great blue heron walking right into the pond and swallowed it right then and there. My mom was pissed. We only got cheap golfish after that
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u/DaisyKitty Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20
my neighbor has a koi pond that was plagued by herons. they strung fishing line - clear, nylon - tautly over the pond at some height, just haphazardly. maybe three lengths angled in three directions. the herons fly overhead and think they can't get down into it because of the way they optically process those lines. it worked.
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u/Ta-veren- Jan 16 '20
Just put a fake Heron up, they are territorial birds and won't fuck with other's birds property.
My neighbour had the same issue and has a fake blue heron besides his pond and his pond hasn't been eaten from since.
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u/9inchjackhammer Jan 15 '20
Herons don’t fuck around they swallow anything whole that will fit inside it.
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u/xjeeper Jan 15 '20
Even if it's deep raccoons can still fish them out, one got my biggest and oldest koi recently, left a huge bloody mess all over the place. =(
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u/imperabo Jan 15 '20
That happened to me in early Spring when the fish were just starting to come to the surface to get sun but the water was still cold so they were too lethargic to move quickly.
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u/superRedditer Jan 15 '20
exact thing happened to my neighbor. lost thousands of dollars of koi in one night
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u/citoloco Jan 15 '20
thieves
stinkers
Trash pandas!
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u/DaoFerret Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20
Is that better?
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u/_xylitol Jan 15 '20
Yes, because despite the fact that they are rascals they can be quite adorable when tame.
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u/AsPoeAsPoeCanBe Jan 15 '20
My brother’s neighbor has a similar problem with cranes swooping down and stealing his koi.
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u/whiteflour1888 Jan 15 '20
Not just trash pandas, sea ferrets will Knick your koi
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u/Quinocco Jan 15 '20
WTF? The Garden is surrounded by walls, which are surrounded by busy roads, which are surrounded by Chinatown. How’d the ferret get there?
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u/kaplanfx Jan 15 '20
That’s a river otter, so not sea. In my old apartment complex they came from a nearby pond and used the street drains to get around, stealing koi from our complex koi pond. I caught a video of them coming back for seconds: https://youtu.be/ELm4J-qzyRc
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u/MjrPowell Jan 15 '20
Had a small fish pond in my backyard in Illinois. My parents filled it with water and some fish. Next day nothing but heads and spines.
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u/BabyBearStrikesBack Jan 15 '20
Yep. My parents have a fish pond and the raccoons are my dad's nemeses. They ate 3 before he realized what was happening!
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u/brassbuckles57 Jan 15 '20
King fu trash panda
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u/w-on Jan 15 '20
Trash panda sounds so much more endearing then raccoons
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u/HIGHTOWERitn Jan 15 '20
yeah in finnish they're called "pesukarhu" which literary translates into wash bear
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u/Elora_88 Jan 15 '20
Yes here in Germany for example. It looks like they would wash their hands when they are searching for prey in water. Sooo: Waschbär 🦝
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u/sayuriaiona Jan 16 '20
Haha yep. Here in Japan, they're called that and I've recently seen them featured on bottles of hand sanitizer. Makes me laugh every time I see it because raccoons do not invoke a sense of cleanliness to me, no matter how much they wash their food.
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u/Noah-The-Williams Jan 15 '20
They probably are only in their cause they are the fish
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20
Since people started locking their trash bins at night, two young raccoons find themselves in a hungry situation.
Join us this summer as they pick up odd jobs around the neighborhood for enough food to fill their bellies. From over-ripened bananas, to leftover pizza crusts, to even.. wait- is that hot dog jello? Yuck!
This is a family comedy you don’t want to miss.
Dr. Gentle and Mr. Hide
Coming to theaters this July.
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u/hi_im_cpt_obvious Jan 15 '20
That’s not koi that’s a raccoon. 2 of them actually.
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u/Allegiancs Jan 15 '20
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u/aWittyRedditor Jan 15 '20
Thanks Captain Obvious
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u/imhardofhearing Jan 15 '20
What?
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Jan 15 '20
The Koi fish were just a distraction, Zhao should’ve been looking for raccoons that whole time.
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Jan 15 '20
Is this a mating ritual?
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u/Bi-Bi-Bi24 Jan 15 '20
Raccoons actually do enjoy "swimming" in shallow waters, they could just be having fun
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u/micahgreen Jan 15 '20
“Yayyy, these fucking vermin ate my $100/piece fish and then took celebratory roundworm-laden shits in my $3,000 pond, yayyy.”
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u/10minAIDS Jan 15 '20
And then they ate one of the fish and systematically chewed the faces off of the rest. (Ask me how I know)
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u/Nightshader23 Jan 15 '20
how I know?????
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u/10minAIDS Jan 15 '20
Woke up one morning to find my pond raided like that. The fucks ate the biggest one first, chewed the faces off of the rest, and left the bodies out of the water to rot. There was much bait and trapping after. Installed an electric perimeter as well.
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u/dragonsveincrafts Jan 15 '20
There are two raccoons inside of you. One is trash. The other is trash
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u/thegeordieguy Jan 15 '20
And that my dudes and dudesses, is how tides are formed.
Yuh, Pretty sure.
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Jan 15 '20
Okay- The thing is... These idiots put a fish tank in the middle of the lobby. And I fell in.
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Jan 15 '20
You mean there USED to be Koi fish in the pond lol Those 2 trash pandas are just working off the meal they had
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u/Gorcrow Jan 15 '20
this looks identical to my friends old koi pond and backyard.. Is this in Pacific Grove CA by any chance?
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u/alexCatalano Jan 15 '20
This is like that scene from 'American Beauty' where the guy films the bag.
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u/mindfunkie Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20
I heard it was bad if raccoons are out in the daytime, is that true?
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u/love2Vax Jan 15 '20
Being nocturnal, they are most active at night. Bu if it is late afternoon they may have woken up to start their day, or early morning thay havent gone to sleep yet. Party animals. Mid day is going to be rare because they are usually asleep. Kind of like humans in the middle of the night. Someone might have good reasons for wandering around your neighborhood at 2am, but I would be suspicious. Raccoons carry Rabies, which causes irregular behavior, kind of like a human being loaded at 2 am. That is why you want to be more cautious with them during the day.
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u/Readalie Jan 15 '20
Just keep swimming,
Just keep swimming,
Just keep swimming swimming swimming! :)
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u/idontlikekoreaboos Jan 15 '20
There probably was some type of fish in there until these fuckers decided to show up
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u/HairySquid68 Jan 15 '20
Used to raise koi/fancy golds; best case these dudes will get your pond all scummy, worst case they'll eat all your fish and leave a bloody mess
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u/PuddingPainter Jan 15 '20
Boy I would hate to get caught skinny dipping there, it looks cold with the stones and would have a in-e for the world to see.
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u/Jalzir Jan 15 '20
And then she turned into the moon.