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Post by 3piggles on Nov 5, 2009 22:47:59 GMT
Did you bring them all in for the winter. I know your part of the country gets even colder than mine does, and we could never winter over up here without a lot of fancy aeration and heaters.
That is quite a collection. Your ponds must be something to see in the warm months.
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Post by Jeannine on Nov 6, 2009 16:25:21 GMT
Michigan is COLD!!! There was a hard frost this morning...scraping ice off the windshield. - Yes my fish winter over in the pond, so do the waterlilies. I have had a pond since 2001. When I moved I had to put in a new pond! The 'new pond' is 2 years old but less than a year established due to a mishap with a frog fountain last spring (had to redo the big pond, and add a small pond). My first pond I tossed in all my goldfish form my tanks - Fantails, Ryukins, Flat Body (normal)...took them out and put them back in the tank for the winter, I left the pump on and the pond never fully froze over. The next year when I went to take them out again for the winter they were to big to fit back in the tank!!! So I left them in the pond with the blubber on high to keep an open section in the ice - as long as the pond is at least 3 feet deep and you keep the pump going to keep a open section, it will not freeze solid, just get very very cold. The fish go into a type of hibernation, their systems slow way down. It is VERY important that they do not eat late in the fall because the food can rot in their belly and kill the fish, but feed them enough all season so they can store up fat for the winter. My Ryukin was super fat - he was the size of a grapefruit! I only brought in the baby fish - some are teeny tiny less than 1/2 inch. Most of the babies are about 1.5 inches. The first time my fish spawned I left the babies in for the winter...only 3 out of the 7 made it. The two 'gold' fish I have now are the babies form 6 years ago. I left the big fish in the big pond - it is four foot deep - and they will be fine in it all winter. Big Pond: Still in a state of reconstruction. Little Pond (to the right of the frog): Pond Residents: photos taken in June...fish are much larger now! Black and White Butterfly Koi, Calico Shubunkin, Little Goldfish & Big Fish (about 11 inches).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 19:43:21 GMT
lovely pond
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Post by Jeannine on Nov 18, 2009 21:05:48 GMT
End of Season Fish Photo The Butterfly Koi is as big as Little Fish in one season!!! Calico is 3x his size and the little gold baby is huge too!
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Post by cheekynj on Nov 19, 2009 12:41:11 GMT
Beautiful children you have there
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Post by Pigjes on Nov 20, 2009 7:53:38 GMT
Great pond!!
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Post by 3piggles on Nov 22, 2009 20:33:29 GMT
Wow, your ponds are great and it sounds as if your fish are doing really well in them. Too bad you had to lose a few to learn who had to come in for the winter, but at least you know now, and can keep the big fish out there.
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Post by Jeannine on Nov 26, 2009 12:48:36 GMT
I made new piggy bedding - luckily I had a 'guinea pig' to test with. Mushka was involved in another experiment last night; She was Motion Captured! This is a behind the scenes shot of her first mocap shoot. Motion capture is the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model. Mushka's actions will be used to animate a digital character in 3D animation. She did a very good job.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2009 19:26:19 GMT
awesome pictures! mushka looks very cute in her colourful outfit!
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Post by anaira on Nov 27, 2009 2:58:17 GMT
heh that's so cool!
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Post by Jeannine on Nov 27, 2009 7:09:00 GMT
Mushka's snow suit was a x-mass gift from her dog friend (and mom) in Canada; we met them on LiveJournal many years ago. I have never seen another dog coat like it!!! It has a hood too, but its tucked in. Indy & Mushka Edel, Lucky & Truffles pigs coming soon...
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Post by Jeannine on Dec 26, 2009 0:27:59 GMT
Indy waiting for Santa!
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 26, 2009 17:33:00 GMT
Aw, xmas pets. They look so cute. I hope Santa was good to Indy after waiting so patiently for him.
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Post by Jeannine on Dec 29, 2009 0:21:08 GMT
My K-9 girls each got a big bone cookie for x-mas, and they were very happy. Mushka Indy ...and they were even happier when I took the dumb x-mas collars off!
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Post by anaira on Dec 29, 2009 0:55:35 GMT
I <3 Mushka! And Indy! ;D
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 29, 2009 1:56:18 GMT
Ah, yes. The "you finally remembered that we're dogs" wag, lol. Those big bone cookies look so huge, and last for such a short time!!!
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Post by Jeannine on Dec 29, 2009 2:29:05 GMT
lol - My girls put up with me so well; Indy is the best at wearing dumb hats and reindeer antlers! Mushka shook all her jingle bells off her collar last year; Indy managed to keep two on, but lost them in the yard the other day...I'll just sew them back on, all ready for next year! hahaha!
I don't think they bother to chew the treats - two bites and the cookie is gone, as if it never existed. Mushka is a bit more dainty about eating treats, and Indy has the capability of gently pulling ripened raspberries off the vine, but show them a cookie and you would never know it!
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Post by Pigjes on Dec 29, 2009 10:16:48 GMT
Such lovely pics!!!!!
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 30, 2009 18:24:20 GMT
Hehehe, if you ever can't find your sewing box, check under the dogs bed. They'll be hiding it so you can't sew on more bells, lol.
Do you ever use Greenies? We used those with our dogs, and they really do a great job of keeping their teeth clean and breath nice. Expensive, but worth it if their breath gets really bad.
We used to get those big, and I mean big, rawhide bones, and those didn't last more than a few days, either.
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Post by Jeannine on Jan 12, 2010 17:13:55 GMT
I have not bought the 'Greenies' but I was using another less expensive type of the same thing. Mushka has a sensitive stomach and some of those teeth cleaning chews make her puke - mint smelling dog puke is just as nasty!!!! I had the Vet clean their teeth this year, since they are "Seniors"; Mu had the tip of her molar broken with the root exposed!!!! so the vet pulled it, apparently it is very common, the result of chewing on hard things. I have been careful as to what goes into her mouth now a days. Indy would eat the teeth cleaners so fast they didn't have a chance to clean her teeth - but she would have minty smelling burps! I never really realized how much my Dogs and Guinea Pigs have in common until I ran across these photos taken in November...lol (pre-Portabella) Mushka & Gigi Indy & Reese
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