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Last Updated: 2/16/20
Photos of Fish in Robyn's Ponds
Fish:
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Spring 2014
Winter 2014
Summer 2013
Spring 2013
Summer 2012
Spring 2012
Summer 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
Winter 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Winter 2007
Summer 2006
Spring 2006
Winter 2005/2006
Summer 2005
Spring 2005
Winter 2005
Fall 2004
Summer 2004
Spring 2004
Winter 2003/2004
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
Summer 2002
Winter 2001/2002
Fall 2001
Summer 2001
Spring 2001
2000
1999
1998
For more general information on these photos, see my pond pictures page index.
Note that photos of the ponds that also happen to show fish are not usually shown on this page so check out the other pages for more fish photos.
Pond fish on 4/20/16.
Riley on 3/27/16.
Here are my koi, orfe, and goldfish on 4/12/15:
Nikita (bottom), Colin (left), Alex (middle), and Riley (right) - also
two orfe and a bunch of goldfish.
Nikita and an orfe.
Riley and an orfe.
I took a lot of photos of the big pond fish on 4/10/14. I had four koi and two orfe as well as lots of
goldfish. I will not point out below which are which.
1800 gallon pond facing southwest.
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish on 2/23/14. There are two orfe at the top. White koi, Colin, and Alex are on the right.
Here are some photos of the big pond, koi, orfe, and goldfish on 7/28/13:
1800 Gallon Pond and Fish including all four koi from
a distance
1800 Gallon Pond and Fish including all three of the
koi from a distance
1800 Gallon Fish - goldfish and three of the koi -
Nikita at the top right, Alex in the middle, and Riley at the bottom right
From 5/18/13, fish (mostly goldfish) in the 1800 gallon pond being fed:
Pond fish - koi Riley on the right
Pond fish - koi Nikita on the bottom
Pond fish - koi Colin on the right (the biggest
fish) and koi Alex at the left bottom
Three goldfish on 5/28/13 with cloudy water in a 10 gallon tank on the day of release to the 1800 gallon pond
From 4/14/13:
Pond fish. Colin (big white koi) is in the
middle. On the right is Riley (platinum koi) next to the larger orfe. Koi Alex is at the top with
the two smaller orfe. Koi Nikita is obscured in the bubbles.
On 6/29/12, a derecho hit. The power went out. The oxygen went down. I took these photos the
next day, 6/30/12. One of my two large orfe was dying and then did.
Dying orfe under the Cyprio filter (power was
out)
Dead orfe with ruler, right side, 18 inches
long
Dead orfe with ruler, left side.
Pond fish including Colin at the upper left and Nikita and Riley at the bottom, two orfe at the top, and goldfish.
These photos from 5/3/12 show my poor, dead koi Maggie.
Maggie - entire right side, with ruler
Maggie - right side of her head
Maggie - strange scale on her chest that looks like
an extra fin
Maggie - protruding vent; you can see her internal
bacterial infection that ruptured her vent
Maggie - entire left side
Maggie - entire left side, with ruler
Maggie - left underside, shows where two scales
came off and a bacterial lesion
Maggie - underside of her head with barbels
Here are photos of the three new koi on 4/4/12 when I moved them to the 1800 gallon pond.
Alex (top left), Nikita (top right), and Riley
(bottom) in the basement pond before I went to catch them.
Nikita (right), Alex (left), and Riley (top) in a
bucket, ready to move.
Nikita (bottom), Alex (middle), and Riley (top) in a
bucket, ready to move.
1800 gallon pond fish - Maggie and Colin (huge koi), orfe, and goldfish, on 3/18/12. This may be the last photo of poor Maggie (the huge orange koi).
From 3/6/12:
1800 gallon pond fish - I marked my koi
Colin and Maggie as well as the shubunkin who is hard to see and one of the orfe.
Sick goldfish - this guy was the reason I was
using the MelaFix, and guess what? He has recovered!
Here are photos of my three new koi taken on 9/25/11 (the day that I got them)
Alex, Riley, and Nikita left to right.
Alex, Nikita, and Riley left to right.
Riley, Nikita, and Alex left to right.
These horrible photos are from 8/14/11 when my koi, Kojak, died. Please do not view them if
dead fish bother you.
Dead Kojak - right side, shows he was 17"
long.
Dead Kojak - left side with ruler; you can see the
sudden onset septicemia and dropsy on his stomach.
Dead Kojak - top view; note the gash at the
beginning of his dorsal (back) fin that is gray from infection. The hole is too large and too
sudden (definitely not there more than three days previous) for it not to be due to a physical
injury.
Dead Kojak - another top view of the damage.
Note that the fin there was ripped off which makes me think he got stuck in the plastic black
heron hiding box and scraped his back and fin trying to get out. Dropsy is visible at the bottom
of the photo.
Dead Kojak - his beautiful head; he has lost his
metallic color, and his eyes are clouded over but otherwise, he was still beautiful to me.
My brother took these photos of my pond fish in the Summer of 2011. These photos were taken
sometime
in July perhaps, before Kojak died in August. Colin, Maggie, and Kojak were my koi at the
time.
Pond fish - Colin (upper left), orfe (bottom
left),
and goldfish
Pond fish - orfe (top), Kojak (bottom right),
and
goldfish
Pond fish - Colin (middle), orfe (top), and
goldfish
Pond fish - Colin (middle), Kojak (bottom
left), and
goldfish
Pond fish - Colin (top) and Kojak
(bottom)
Pond fish - wider view, Maggie (left), Colin
(top),
Kojak (right), two orfe, and goldfish
Pond fish - Colin, Maggie, Kojak, two orfe,
and
goldfish are all in there; you find them!
Pond fish - Maggie, Colin, Kojak, and
goldfish
Fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 6/26/11. Maggie (orange koi, top middle), Colin (white koi, top middle), Kojak (koi, bottom left), and the two largest orfe (upper right) are all there as are many of the goldfish.
These photos are of the dead sunburst goldfish on 6/3/11 with a ruler:
Dead sunburst goldfish - right side
Dead sunburst goldfish - left side
Dead goldish - right side, 5/26/11. The
poor fish was in the middle of changing color. The fish was going from brown/gray/blah/natural
to orange and white. The dark spots almost look like a disease but they are not. The common
goldfish was 7.5" long and the fourth victim of a die off that spring.
Dead goldfish - left side, 5/26/11.
Sick fish - one of the dying fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 5/21/11. You can see the white film on this goldfish. The white thing is the tubing coming out of the main pump.
Eight new fish - six sunburst goldfish (although
one was white instead) and two orfe on the day that I got them, 4/28/11.
Eight new fish - six sunburst goldfish (although
one was white instead) and two orfe on the day that I got them, 4/28/11.
Two koi and goldfish - Colin, Maggie (top), and 13 goldfish; taken 4/3/11
These photos are from 9/26/10 when I put the full net on the pond. I took photos of the big pond
after the half net was off but before I put on the full net:
1800 gallon pond fish - the three koi are
towards the left; the two orfe are at the top; the rest are goldfish.
1800 gallon pond fish - the two largest koi
(Maggie and Colin) are to the upper left; the smaller koi (Kojak) is in the middle; one orfe is at
the top middle; one orfe is at the right middle; the rest are goldfish.
1800 gallon pond fish - Colin is on the left;
Kojak is in the middle; the rest are goldfish.
1800 gallon pond fish - Maggie and Colin
are to the upper left; Kojak is in the middle (hard to see); the two orfe are on the right; the rest
are goldfish.
1800 gallon pond fish - Kojak is in the upper
right; one orfe is at the upper right; one orfe is at the very top in the middle (cut off); the rest are
goldfish.
Kojak
Dead goldfish - 13.5" female comet with
distended abdomen next to ruler; the black stuff is just dirt, 7/21/10.
Dead goldfish - another view, 7/21/10.
I took these photos in a small glass bowl of the one shubunkin and four bitterlings (only three in
the bowl; I got the other one later) on 5/5/10 before releasing them from the 50 gallon indoor
pond to the 1800 gallon outdoor pond. At least one of the bitterlings had red and was pretty
colorful. Unfortunately, the photos are not in focus.
Shubunkin - right side
Shubunkin - left side
Three bitterlings - side view
Three bitterlings - side view
Three bitterlings - top view
I took these photos on 4/11/10. You can see my three koi (Maggie who is huge and orange,
Colin who is huge and white, and Kojak who is metallic) and the three orfe in most of the photos
as well as tons of goldfish.
1800 gallon pond and fish
1800 gallon pond fish
1800 gallon pond fish
1800 gallon pond fish - my nearly-
invisible dark shubunkin is just to the left and above Kojak in this photo.
On 3/7/10, I removed three dead fish from my 1800 gallon pond. I did not take a photo of the
dead white goldfish but here are the poor koi and orfe that died that winter.
Dead Mac 2 - 3/7/10; warning, this koi is partially
decomposed.
Warning - the orfe is partially decomposed as it was unreachable for about a month after dying
due to the net being frozen in four feet of snow. You can see how deep bodied orfe are.
Dead orfe with ruler, side view.
Dead orfe top view.
I ordered four bitterlings and two shubunkins which arrived on 10/24/09 and were put in to my
50 gallon basement pond. In the photos, they are in the
water they
came in which includes some blue stuff.
Three Bitterlings
Two Shubunkins
Two Shubunkins
Here are two photos of my koi, Kojak, in the bucket the day I moved him (4/18/09) from the
basement pond to the 1800 gallon pond:
Kojak
Kojak
These photos from 4/12/09 show the pond fish at the best time of the year (clear water, no
plants). Maggie and Colin are my two big koi. After the first few photos, I assume you can
figure out which fish are the koi and which are the orfe. There are goldfish in all photos.
Pond fish from a distance, facing
southwest.
Pond fish - Maggie and Colin at the upper
right and the two largest orfe at the bottom right
Pond fish - Colin is at the upper right with
Maggie below him; the two largest orfe are at the bottom right.
Pond fish
Pond fish
Pond fish - close-up of Maggie at the top,
Collin in the middle, and the two big orfe at the bottom right.
These photos were taken 10/5/08 when the net was off the 1800 gallon pond.
Pond fish - Colin (koi) and an orfe are at the
top; the rest are goldfish.
Pond fish - Colin (white koi) in the middle,
Maggie's (orange koi) head to the right, an orfe, and goldfish.
Pond fish - Colin (white koi) on the right,
Maggie at the top, an orfe on the left, and goldfish.
On 9/3/08, I took this photo which showed three of the rosy red minnows in the 153 gallon pond
after I fed them. I can see the minnows on my home computer but not at work (too dark) so you
may or may not be able to make them out.
Three rosy red minnows
I was in the pond on 6/24/07 and took this photo of the fish.
Pond fish - my big koi, Maggie, is in the
middle. The two big orfe are at the top of the photo. One of the baby orfe is below the big orfe
on the right. The rest are goldfish. I count parts of 18 goldfish.
Close-up of Maggie from the previous photo which
also shows a close-up of the baby orfe and seven goldfish.
Pond fish under the pond net on 6/23/07. You can see mostly goldfish. An orfe is in the upper left of the photo, and another is on the bottom right but harder to see. My koi, Colin (white) and Maggie (orange, just her rear can be seen) are at the top right of the photo. You can also see the floating island of impatiens.
I had a goldfish with large tumors on its head that mostly laid on the bottom for the last year of
its life. I finally found the poor guy deceased on 6/10/07. I took photos to show the tumors
which felt hard. The tumors were more white when he was alive. Note that he had been dead a
few days so if you do not like to look at dead animals, please do not click on the photos
below.
Dead goldfish with tumors
Dead goldfish with tumors - close-up
Three new orfe still in the bag on 5/11/07. One
is in mid gasp!
Three new orfe and bullfrog tadpole (view above
the bag) on 5/11/07 before release.
Three new orfe and bullfrog tadpole (view above
the bag) on 5/11/07 before release.
Pond fish being fed on 4/29/07. You can see the floating pond pellets and Cheerios. My two koi, Maggie (orange) and Colin (white) can be seen in the middle. One of the orfe can be seen on the far left. The rest of the fish are goldfish. There is a net over this part of the pond.
From the 153 gallon pond cleaning on 3/29/07:
Two crane flies, a green frog tadpole, and a baby
rosy red minnow in the bucket.
Two crane flies, a green frog tadpole, and a baby
rosy red minnow in the bucket.
Dead male Southern redbelly dace - I was super
sad to find him. I took his photo because, even in death, he was gorgeous.
Rosy red minnows - 6 adults, 6 babies in
the bucket.
Rosy red minnows - 6 adults, 6 babies in
the bucket.
On 3/15/07, I found a dead 3" male rosy red minnow floating in my 153 gallon pond. I think the raccoon beat him up, he escaped, and he later died. You can see that he is bruised. Here is the photo.
Pond fish on 1/6/07. All of my three orfe
and two koi are in the photo with most of the goldfish. There is a net over the water.
Orfe - this is a close-up of the orfe in the previous
photo.
Pond fish on 9/24/06. Maggie and Colin
are at the upper left. The rest are goldfish.
Pond fish on 9/24/06. My two koi (Maggie
and Colin) are marked as are a few goldfish, my upside-down orfe, and a healthy orfe.
Sick orfe - this is my orfe that has been upside down for months. He/she is also now becoming anorexic. This was taken on 8/31/06.
My only remaining fancy goldfish in my 1800 gallon pond died on 7/4/06. This 7.5" female
fantail (maybe part oranda) was orange and white. You can read more about her in my August 2006 newsletter (not on-line until August). Here are two
photos.
Dead fantail - right side with ruler.
Dead fantail - left side.
Pond fish with the net pulled back on 4/30/06. This photo is labeled. The labels are black and hard to see but I marked two orfe (left and top), my koi Colin (right), my koi Maggie (top), my one fantail (bottom middle), and my big black goldfish who is turning orange (bottom right). The rest of the fish are various goldfish.
Pond fish under the net on 4/19/06. They are
mostly goldfish. My koi, Colin, is at the bottom with algae growing on him. Two of my orfe are
on the far right.
Maggie - my big koi Maggie under the net on
4/19/06. She was feeling under the weather with a few infected patches on her back.
Pond fish under the net on 12/11/05. You can
see my koi, Maggie, as well as some of the orfe and goldfish.
Pond fish under the net on 12/11/05. Maggie
is there again as is one of orfe who has a bent spine.
On 8/14/05, one of my 18" golden orfe was found stranded in the shallow area of the waterfall
following a power outage on a hot day with a plant-covered pond. He probably was trying to
jump to get some oxygen. So, here are rare photos of a big orfe out of water. He was a beauty.
I was very upset. I am sure the other three big orfe miss him.
Orfe - left side.
Orfe - right side
Orfe - top view. This is how I was used to seeing
him. The orfe was much deeper bodied than I thought. From the top, the orfe look really skinny
and have those black dots. But, from the sides, he almost looks like a goldfish.
Fish under the net on 5/27/05. Most are
goldfish but
all four orfe and one of my koi (Colin) are in the photo (can you find them? Two orfe are near
the bottom of the photo.).
Fish under the net on 5/27/05. I see three
of my
orfe and both of my koi in this more distant photo.
Dead goldfish from my 1800 gallon pond on
2/22/05. This 10" mostly white probably female goldfish with red on her tail and red lipstick
was
pulled from my pond twice that day by the heron. He/she stripped some scales off the front end
of the fish but most likely, this poor last of the big goldfish in my pond died from being out of
water too long. I guess the heron could not swallow her. Read more about this in my March newsletter (on-line by 3/12/05).
Fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 1/9/05. The
two koi, Maggie and Colin, and the orfe are marked, semi-close-up.
Fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 1/9/05,
farther away.
Four fantails in a small bowl for photos. The
fish were added to the 20 gallon indoor tub pond on 11/5/04 after this photo was taken. The far
left fish is a calico fantail. The upper right fish was a chocolate telescope-eyed fantail but he got
sucked into the filter and died the first night (I fixed the problem). The other two fish are orange
and white fantails. The fish are only about an inch long so very young.
Red and white fantail close-up, 11/5/04. This is
a close-up of one of the above fish.
Jack - top view, dead 14" female comet that I
bought in 1996 on
9/1/04.
Jack - right side view, 9/1/04.
Jack - left side view, scales may appear injured
but
it is just the
reflection from the light on the camcorder (which also does digital photos), 9/1/04.
Male red shiner - left side, 3/29/04.
Male red shiner - left side, same fish,
3/29/04.
Male red shiner - right side, same fish,
3/29/04.
Female red shiner - left side, 3/29/04.
Female red shiner - left side, same fish,
3/29/04.
Southern redbelly dace - right side, 3/29/04.
Southern redbelly dace - right side, same fish,
3/29/04.
Rosy red minnows - male on bottom front,
female in the back,
3/29/04.
Rosy red minnows - two females (not the same
individual as previous
female), 3/29/04.
These eight photos were all taken on 12/28/03 because the pond was warm and free of ice, the water was clear, and there is no cover so this is the best time to get good fish photos!
Pond fish - close-up of Colin (a koi), orfe,
and goldfish.
Pond fish - far away view of my two koi
(Maggie and Colin), orfe,
and goldfish.
Orfe close-up - with medium goldfish for comparison.
Orfe close-up
Pond fish - far away with orfe (bottom),
Maggie, Colin, goldfish,
and a reflection of the house on the water.
Orfe close-up
Maggie - my big butterfly koi
Pond fish - Maggie (previous photo is a
close-up of this digital
photo) with eight goldfish.
Paradise Fish on 6/13/03 before going into the 20 gallon mosaic pond. The male is on the top, and the female is on the bottom (not a reflection). To see more photos of them taken once they were brought inside for the season, see my paradise fish page.
Rosy red minnows being transferred from my basement pond to my 153 gallon pond on 4/12/03. The large fish in the front is a mature
male.
Rosy red minnows being transferred from my basement pond to my 153 gallon pond on 4/12/03. This photo was taken a few seconds
apart
from the last one so the fish have moved a little. The large fish in the front is a mature
male.
Guppies being transferred from the basement pond to the mosaic
pond
out
front on 4/12/03. This is a female (bottom) and male (top).
Guppies being moved on 4/12/03. This shows two females.
Southern redbelly dace on 4/2/03 during 153 gallon pond cleaning
when he
was removed and then photographed in a glass bowl. Isn't he a beauty?!
Male red shiner (I think) on 4/2/03 during 153 gallon pond
cleaning.
Female red shiner (I think) on 4/2/03 during 153 gallon pond
cleaning.
Goldfish in the process of changing color in the
1800 gallon pond in
April of 2003.
Pond Fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 3/23/03.
The fish made it after
the
worst winter in 100 years! Along the bottom from left to right are an orfe, Colin (koi), and
Maggie (koi). The rest are mostly goldfish. You can see the waterfall, pump intake with floss at
the
top of the photo, and the house is reflected in the water, distorting the view.
Pond Fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 8/1/02.
The photo shows
mostly goldfish but there is one orfe.
Dead comet found in 1800 gallon pond, 7/5/02. This
9" red and white
comet female was found in the pond dead. She was full of roe (eggs). There were no obvious
injuries or signs of anything wrong with her aside from her agape mouth and the fact that she
was
dead. Apparently, she went into the shallows to spawn on this 95 degree F day and got stuck out
of water and suffocated.
Southern redbelly dace on 3/29/02. I finally developed and scanned
this
photo of two male Southern redbelly dace and one unknown fish on 5/26/03 taken 14 months
earlier
when cleaning the 153 gallon pond.
Pond fish in the 1800 gallon pond on 3/9/02;
Maggie (koi) is at the
bottom. An orfe is also in the photo.
Pond fish in the 1800 gallon pond on
12/26/01. The two koi and
some orfe can be seen among the many goldfish.
Pond fish in the 1800 gallon pond on
12/26/01. Arrows mark the
two koi and two of the four orfe in this photo where they are among the goldfish.
Hurt goldfish, right side, deep wound at top,
10/29/01.
Hurt goldfish, left side, minor wounds, injured
gill cover, torn tail, 10/29/01.
This fish was removed from my 1800 gallon pond and put into a 5 gallon tank for treatment after
being severely injured. She looks like someone ran a cheese grater over her. See the health page case studies for more detailed
information.
Basketball goldfish taken 10/14/01, tummy down.
This 8-inch fish is
dead
from a long-term medical problem. See the health
page
case studies for more detailed information. I suspect the fish, which grew slowly over a few
years, had a kidney malfunction. She was a regular comet, not a fancy goldfish!
Basketball goldfish taken 10/14/01, tummy up.
This is another view of the above dead fish.
Koi - June 2001, Maggie (orange butterfly koi) on top,
Colin (white
butterfly koi) on bottom, shubunkin goldfish on right.
Orfe - June 2001.
Pond Fish - 4/30/01, three orfe on the left, two
koi in the middle
Pond Fish - 3/25/01, some orfe at the top,
two koi on far right
Pond Fish - 3/25/01, three orfe at the top, my
two koi bunched in
the middle of all those goldfish!
Pond Fish - 3/25/01, it looks like a trillion fish!
For June of 2000, I took a series of photos which show many fish. See here for the feeding sequence. The fish are marked right on the photos. If you want me to identify any particular fish, e-mail me.
Female fathead minnow - okay, so she is in my 20 gallon tank but this is a closeup taken 9/4/00.
Lots of fish - from near the top to the bottom are included two koi (Maggie and Colin in the upper left), three orfe, Remmy (large black koi in the middle), tons of goldfish and rosy red minnows, and a black moor at the bottom, 2/20/99. If you want to know what a specific fish is, e-mail me.
Lots of fish - mostly goldfish, 2/20/99.
Lots of fish - Remmy (koi at bottom left with orange head), lots of goldfish, two large golden orfe (bottom right), two small orfe (top right), 2/20/99.
Rosy red minnows - rosy red minnows gathered near the pump in late October, 1998. My mother's reflection can be seen. A few bits of salvinia can be seen floating.
Pond fish at feeding hole, 9/6/98. You must see this one! Below is the key for the numbers next to the plants and animals. These are but a few of my pond animals that come to feed.
1 = common goldfish, orange with white fins
2 = Maggie, metallic orange with some black, butterfly koi
3 = common goldfish, orange with white fins
4 = common goldfish, orange with white fins
5 = fantail goldfish, orange with white fins
6 = comet goldfish, orange and white
7 = comet goldfish, orange with white fins
8 = sarassa comet, orange and white
9 = Remmy, black and orange butterfly koi, about one foot long (died 3/21/99)
10 = common goldfish, orange with white fins
11 = shubunkin goldfish
12 = goldfish (looks like a blob to me)
13 = yellow primrose creeper
14 = water hyacinth
15 = albata lily pads
16 = salvinia (it covered the entire surface of the pond except this feeding hole)
Ones I forgot: Below #11 and to the right of #12 is Bunky, the baby shubunkin, born in the
pond; below Remmy and to the right of Bunky are a few orange blobs which are some rosy red
minnows; and to the right of fish #3 and above fish #4 is a baby golden orfe!
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