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    Or the time you get up for a early shift and find the heron trying to eat a koi, which you've grown from 3" and just stabbed it. Then you have to put it out of its misery yourself. Still gutted about little smokey.

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    I suppose the biggest one of all is that the one thing the koi want more than anything, is the very thing that could put them in jeopardy ...

    MORE FOOD !

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    Checking For Parasites

    It takes you ages to catch the one you want to examine and just when you've got everything set up with the microscope and camera, the bloody thing tries to get off the microscope stand!
    "The information's out there,
    You only have to let it in." (Jesse Stone)

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    your favourite Kahaku develops a shimmy !!!!!! ggggrrrrrrr

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley View Post
    It takes you ages to catch the one you want to examine and just when you've got everything set up with the microscope and camera, the bloody thing tries to get off the microscope stand!
    pin it down with the x100 objective.

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    Confucius He Says. Try not to fall in the pond AGAIN!!!!. ( You feel so stupid when you go back in the house and explain to the wife why you are soaking wet)

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    Quote Originally Posted by dogsbody View Post
    Confucius He Says. Try not to fall in the pond AGAIN!!!!. ( You feel so stupid when you go back in the house and explain to the wife why you are soaking wet)
    You can't call yourself a koi keeper until you've fallen in at least once!

    Just as you can't call yourself a golfer, until your unattended "leccy" trolley has rolled into one of the fairway lateral streams.
    "The information's out there,
    You only have to let it in." (Jesse Stone)

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    Thanks for that it makes me feel less stupid but nice to know I am now a fully fledged koi keeper. I never thought of it that way.

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    Just make sure when you fall in you have your mobile phone in your pocket for the full effect

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    I lost 6" of water a day for weeks then finally bite the bullet and stripped the pond out to find the hole, only to realise that the waterfall was blocked by leaves and had been flooding over.
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    You'll need to order some more food at the same time as the car needs new tyres, the kids need new shoes and the dog needs to go to the vets.

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    You sell a piece of equipment as you don't need it any more and it's been sitting in the shed for ages... Then a few weeks later you need it
    5000 Gallon Fibreglassed Pond With 54" x 27" Infinity Window
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    Your cycling to school ( in your cases work lol, and probably by car...) and the heron flies over and your slightly late already arghghg
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    Why didn't I wait until the spring throwing out all this water every night is doing my head in

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    Sometimes koi can have an occasional "flick," for the sake of it, "just to wind you up." One will start then others will follow, when you walk away from the pool worrying what to do about it, they stop and don't do it again.
    "The information's out there,
    You only have to let it in." (Jesse Stone)

  16. #96
    A retailer warns you against gluing in a solvent weld part the wrong way round and your then go and do exactly that.

    You pick up a bargain plumbing component on eBay only to find you ordered the wrong size...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim_Taylor View Post
    A retailer warns you against gluing in a solvent weld part the wrong way round and your then go and do exactly that.

    You pick up a bargain plumbing component on eBay only to find you ordered the wrong size...
    I thought it was only me that did stuff like that lol

    I can't get my head round the plumbing fitting sizes as the male and female threads on the fittings some times are 2 different sizes. I like the good old electrical pipe sizes where everything that's 20mm is called 20mm and you don't need to get a 1/2" fitting to thread in to a 3/4" fitting if that makes sense
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    I agree. It's mind boggling. I bought a 50mm solvent weld ball valve to attach to 50mm solvent weld pipe and it didn't fit as one was internal and the other external diameters!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim_Taylor View Post
    I agree. It's mind boggling. I bought a 50mm solvent weld ball valve to attach to 50mm solvent weld pipe and it didn't fit as one was internal and the other external diameters!
    That sounds like they miss advertised it sounds like pressure pipe fittings and solvent weld fittings.

    The thing with pressure pipe is there are different classes which allow you to use more pressure so you would expect the walls of the pipe to be different thickness's to allow for this.

    Also with plumbing pipe there are different types of pipe as you probably already know as in - pressure pipe, solvent weld, waste pipe etc. none of which are compatible with each other unless you use sleeves, adapters or reducers.

    I wanted a fitting to allow me to go through the side of my pond and go from flexi pipe to pressure pipe and one place offered me a set up that must have included about 6 or 8 parts
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    You've been happily working away in the garden for a few hours, but you break off to go into the filter room for something. It's only when you hear all that running water that you realise, you're in desperate need of a "wee."
    "The information's out there,
    You only have to let it in." (Jesse Stone)

 

 
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