The Secret to Having Koi in Your Pond
We don't have a photo of Juan, but he's in this video... Do you see him? Just kidding. These are the fish in our pond before we moved. Our family lost a favorite koi recently. We had him for 18 years. His name was Juan. We called him the "Juan I Love." He had only one eye... get it. It was sad to see him go. He came in with a shipment of large koi in 2005 but with one eye we didn't feel we should sell him. He lived at Cool Ponds until we took out the pond he was living in and he went home with us. When we sold our house he moved with us. He was well traveled. I don't know why he died. Probably it was age related. We don't really get caught up in why an individual fish dies; it just happens some times. For a fish with one eye, he did great. Never missed a speck of food we threw in, Sometimes people are afraid to put koi in their ponds. They're afraid they will need more care than goldfish -- that they're more fragile than goldfish. Well, here is t
