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Originally Posted by Yvetteperry
We have a pond back in Mass where we go for the summer. We used to have fish until a blue heron found it and ate every one two years in a row. We no longer put fish in and we still see heron fly over to check it out. We have tried a fake heron to no avail. We also had a hawk fly down. We tried a net but came home one day and found a small bird tangled in the net, so that came off. With the abundance of birds in TV I would hesitate to put fish, especially koi, in a pond where they would most likely be easy targets, but that is just my opinion having lived through it. Good luck with whatever your decision is. I love sitting by the pond and hearing the waterfall.
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We had a large pond put some cinderblocks in there to provide a cover for the fish and a large plastic owl nearby to keep all other birds away, it worked, the fish would eat algae keeping it clean, we used feeder fish (fish usually grown to feed other fish, bought 100 at the time for $5.00 to $6.00, also had some Koi purchased initially for a few dollars each, they grew and when we moved we had some 18” long. Enjoy it but put some cover so they can hide from predators