[Nancy M.]

Yesterday Frank, came home from work early and did our normal weekly 20% water change. When I got home it was 5:45 and 97 degree's outside pond temp was 76. The high yesterday was 101 degree's. We left for dinner at 7:13 and returned home at 8:25, I went out back to have my after dinner cigarette and looked in the pond and seen one of our fish laying on the bottom, I yelled for Frank and I grabbed our net, and pulled her out, we 1st examined her to see if she had any injuries, none not even a scale missing. checked her gills they were in perfect condition, we started moving her and got our air ring into the net with her, I worked on her for 40 minutes, and I failed to revive her. I could not stop trying Frank finally pulled me away from her and took her out of the pond. I tested our water and all perimeters were as usual. All other fish in the pond are fine. After I quit crying I went and replayed our surveillance camera's. At 7:58 the Sanke was swimming fine along with all the others. At 8:01 she started to swim very fast and hit the wall of our pond she immediately came up out of the water, and then went straight down, she floated on the surface a few minutes, then went straight to the bottom. She died 20 minutes before we got home. We have no clue as to why she died, we are both just heart broken over this fish. She was in our eyes an extremely beautiful fish.
Here is the last picture of her taken at the ZNA SoCal show 2007 She was the Mature Champion.