It should have been a normal renovation, but it ended with the death of his carp-the-ultimate-guide” title=”Koi …: The Ultimate Guide – Complete Koi”>51 Koikarpers. Piet from Eindhoven is furious with construction workers who threw butts into his pond, the fish did not survive that. “It’s over at once,” he says. After the incident, the 75-year-old carp fanat wants to breathe new life into his pond, but also a second batch of fish dies. “You don’t want to experience this.”
“Dead fish, all dead fish.” That is what Piet saw when he walked nik -confusingly to the pond in his garden at the beginning of May. “It hit me hard. I had been grown for twelve years, and I was very proud of it.”
His pond, surrounded by lampposts, a net against the birds and a soothing, rippling waterfall, is empty at this Saturday afternoon. “Normally we are always comfortable here and we look at the fish. They are very beautiful and also very tame.”
The renovation on the roof of his rental house on the Stokroosstraat eventually became fatal to the fish. “They were working on the roof here,” he says about the construction workers. “Those guests were smoking and then threw those butts in my pond.” The sound of the rippling waterfall sounds while he is attempting to the pond. “It cost me the life of 51 Koikarpers.”
“I think it is dramatic that it must be the case that people have such a nauseous character.”
He is furious with the construction workers who killed his beloved fish with their discarded butts. “I think it is dramatic that it should go so that people have such a nauseous character,” he says. “I chased them away. I don’t have to see a construction worker anymore, I don’t need them either.”
For a moment there seemed hope for the 75-year-old Piet. “A friend of mine came to me,” he says. “He told me that there was a car company that had koi carp swimming, they wanted to give them to me.”
With good courage to pop up his pond again with cheerful carp, he and his friend get in the car towards Vinkeveen. “It was a good way to drive. But there they swam in a pond.” It was love at first sight. For a day he sweated to catch the carp. “We were constantly catching the fish from eleven to seven.”
With a car full of new scaly friends, he returns to Eindhoven. Finally, his pond was full of life again after the Binken incident, until fate for his swimming comrades struck again. “Due to the stress, many have died again. They have not been able to have a great life anymore, I find that very unfortunate.”
“They are just my children, they are just very beautiful.”
A total of 24 of his new carp exchanged the temporary pool of Piet for the eternal pond. “I can’t describe what this does to me,” he says. Yet he keeps hope that the handful of carp who are still there will stay alive. “They are just my children, they are just very beautiful. I just keep breathing, every carp is one.”
