You Have Koi That Need To Be Rescued
How This Works
If you are in the Phoenix Arizona area, and you have koi that need to be rescued, below is an open notification list which you can post to. The list is moderated and the only messages allowed to pass are ones which announce koi that need a new home -- other messages are deleted, this is NOT a discussion forum.
The expectations are that if your entire koi collection needs to be picked up urgently, then the fish should be offered for free, and that one or just a couple of people would come over to your backyard pond to pick them up. The people that pickup the koi would then keep the ones they want, and make the others available for adoption. A reasonable time frame is for the people to pickup within 1 week.
If you have a stable environment for koi and just want to adopt out a few, you are welcome to post notices that you have them available.
it is not a place to sell your koi.
Back Yard Type Pond
If you have a koi near the Phoenix Arizona area that needs to be picked up urgently from your backyard pond, then send an email to our notification list:
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In your email, please include the following information:
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Send that email to our notification list: pkr-fish@yahoogroups.com |
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The people that are interested in rescuing your koi will contact you directly. |
** Please include your phone number. The serious people will call you. People that only contact you through email are more likely to flake out and never show up.
Some people will contact you from out of state. Often they are very eager and sincere that they would like to come pickup the koi, just that they haven't grasped the practical aspect and difficulties of travelling that far to get them, and in reality are unable to. So you will want to take that into consideration if asked to hold fish for out of state visitors.
Selling Your Koi
Another good place to advertise your koi is Criagslist.org It is a very popular free classifieds website. There are a lot of koi available there, you can either do a general search in the forsale area for koi and you can look in the pets category for koi
Large Group Rescues
If there is a pond or other body of water that is being drained and there are large amounts of koi that need to be rescued, you can coordinate that effort.
First thing that needs to be done is you need to establish permission to be able to have a group come and rescue the fish. Would be great to have it in writing, or have the owner on hand when the group shows up.
Send the information about the rescue to the notification list so that others can contact you directly to get invovled in picking up the koi: pkr-fish@yahoogroups.com You can send updates to the notification list, and ask for more volunteers, but they should reply to you directly for discussing the rescue effort.
Disclaimer
(sadly I have to post this) By inviting people to rescue your fish, you agree to hold them or any other volunteers or members harmless of liability or damage while we are performing a rescue. We will do our best to be polite and act in a professional manner, but sometimes accidents happen, ponds are slippery and messy. Also the people rescuing your fish agree to hold you harmless of any damage or injury caused to the rescuer or their property. A rescuer is arriving to your location at their own risk.
Also by utilizing this website and notification list, you agree to hold Shorty harless of any liability, damage etc.