Pond progress, through no fault of mine

[amanda_lodden]

The recent 3-weeks-worth-of-rain-in-a-single-night storms had filled the pond to a point that even the leak couldn't keep up and the stream held water for a while. A few nights ago, I glanced out the window nearest the starting point of the stream and noticed movement. Further investigation revealed that the movement was a small koi who was checking out this new territory. Also, the koi, while still small by koi standards, are about twice as long as they were when I put them in the pond last year. (They're not big fans of the surface, especially when there's movement near it, so I rarely get to seem them up close.)

This led me to watch the pond for a while, fascinated with the fish. Some of the fish are nowhere near as big as the larger fish, and at first I wondered what was wrong with them that they hadn't grown. Then I started counting, and realized that I have the nine larger fish that I put in (ten, minus one that became a turtle snack early on), plus at least two smaller fish. Babies, in other words.

I have yet to determine whether they're baby koi, baby goldfish, or one (plus?) of each.

[Update: There are definitely baby koi, and I'm 99% certain that it's a mix of both. Also, there are at least four babies, maybe more.]