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Old 11-05-2006   #5 (permalink)
Sangreaal
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Originally Posted by dick benbow View Post
have to tell you both a story.....had a leak one day in the inside pond. It was very slow but evident so I tried various learned methods to find out the cause. After a long frustrating time I finally discovered the cause. Several of the bigger koi's teeth had jammed into the threads of my valve which didn't allow it to close properly. They shed them on a regular basis.....

OMG! I'd heard that they can be as big as a human's, but I didn't know they shed them regularly. Any particular time of year this happens, or is it random?
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