As a hobby breeder I'm mindful always that the spoils of war comes from sacrifice and losses but when they your pets it hits you harder , sorry for the losses mate

Sorry to hear the news mate..........the circle of life is all around us :(

😢😢 💔💔💔The bird 🦅 is a disaster with small fish really sorry mate

I've heard of using the plastic heron decoys. Your mom may be ok with that. I have had issues with raccoons but not heron. My pond is more than 18 inches deep all around the edge except for the plant shelf in the corner. This seems to help. So sorry about the fish. ❤

Sorry to hear about your losses Chris 😢 Bloody Herons, but fish ponds are easy targets - we get them here in the UK as well. The fishing line doesn't look the best, but it's effective. Hope you're well.

"Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected."

Wow, I'm sorry Chris. Glad a couple survived. That's devastating 😢

Try another approach, worked for me. Instead of putting fishing line over the water put thin garden wire over the pond and surrounding area at about 8 feet high. Garden wire is easier to see than fishing line, but as it is over head height it is not obtrusive when looking at the pond. Herons should stay away as the do not like fishing under anything that will impede their escape if they want to make a quick exit. Herons hunt in the open, not under trees. Hope this works. Love the channel, I am a koi, fancy goldfish and barb fan.

Omg! I just got here still watching-- full comment at end of video--sorry about your moms fish, at least a few survived🙏 keep on keeping on chris🙂👍🏻

Chris I’m so sorry you lost so many of your best fish, so devastating! I feel your pain, it’s always the best ones I swear!! Hang in there!💕

Oh man thats terrible. So for all the losses. Im glad there is 3 in your mothers pond. And all of the ponds are beautiful. You really need deep edges. Hope you can recover from this. Such a shame.

Oh man, I’m sorry about your moms fish man

Omg. So sad. Send you strength and peaceful mind from Europe. If you would be near, I would give you some of mine. Please don't give up on fish and keeping them 🥺best wishes.

I am so sorry. Gosh; Nets might work better than the lines.

Very sorry for your loss, mate! Herons can really be a pain. Years ago back in Germany I lost all my goldfish to a heron, too. Here in Oz I think I don’t have the issue because of my dogs , who love chasing birds away 😊

Awe..sorry, Chris. I feel sad for your mom that most of her fish are gone :( Love the lily flowers. It looks stunning 😍. Hope all is well, my friend ❤

glad to see few made it fella and decided to spawn thats always a plus but it sucks when that bird turns up

So sorry to hear about your loss. Once herons find an easy food source they will continue to come back until either the food runs out or they can no longer access the fish. Although the fishing line may not look pretty hopefully it deter the heron and cause it to move elsewhere. Hopefully the remaining shubs at your mothers pond will survive and do well.

So sorry for your loss Chris, at least a few of your fish survived, those heron really suck, putting all that fishing string up should help, I never had any heron come to my pond but I seen one the other day when I went fishing with my brother about a half mile away from my house so they are here.

Im so sorry Chris. Glad a few survived at your moms pond. There's no way I can put string around my front pond, that's why i dye it. I can't see my fush all summer, but neither can the herons. Kinda defeats the ourpose of having beautiful fish, but its all i can do. I know the sunsail on the back ponds hide the koi from the herons to see, plus they keep the ponds cooler in the heat if the summer days. Maybe your mom would be okay with a small sunsail up high to block the heron's view? Hopefully they will stay away, whatever your mom decides. Again, I'm so sorry for your loss. ❤

Oh No!!! That just SUCKS!!! I had a die off this past Saturday myself, but nothing like what you experienced here. So sorry.

Unfortunately, it is the circle of life. The trick is to dig the pond to 3-4 feet deep with steep sides. The heron will not be able to stand in the pond and feast. They have babies this time of year. One of my ponds I list a few to herons. Dig the pond deeper than you think then dig it deeper. Ensure that there are fish caves so that they will hide when danger comes. I have not lost any fish to herons since we implemented those changes. I understand your pain! I lost a pond filled with koi when river otters found my pond. Circle of life is what I tell myself. I now have new fish who hide in their caves when threats appear.

Noooooooooooooooooo😢 Glad a few survived at your moms. Hope the rest in your pond survive & thrive.

😢 Very sad to hear about your fish losses,… herons are effective predators. Fishing line can work, adding reflective tape or tinfoil to the line helps, herons are not fond of ‘shiny’ things. At your Moms place you could use decorative grazing balls or wind whirly-gigs. A very good deterrent are alligator decoys, natural predator of the heron. They are smart birds tho so moving the decoy around is a must. As to feeding the Shubs at your Moms place,… sinking food is an option to keep them in good health. Hugs to you, feel that pain my friend 🫶

Those birds are effective hunters, poor fish didn't stand a chance. Sucks that you lost a batch, but we'll all enjoy watching you rebuild your stock. 🙏

Glad some survived these mighty Heron….They are wicked predator. They are everywhere around us. We post shorts on them all the time every time we go to the park or creek or stream even in our own development, they are everywhere. Hardly anyone around us because of them good luck we know that some people we know have fake heron that they put out, but we’re not sure if that really helps at all

Absolutely fecking gutted for you Chris my Canadian twin 💯😢🧁👍👍👍

Aww Chris gutted brother, they are a pain them heron do you think they would have a go at your big koi then? I can’t see them fitting in his mouth All the best Mike 👍🏼👍🏼

I am super sorry this happened and you lost most of you lovely fish. I have water snake trouble and it has been around lately. I am going with some stock tanks with screen covers for the fish I do not want to take a chance and loose.

So sorry for your loss Chris, them birds are also a nightmare over hear, wiped out my dads pond many years ago! Do them fake plastic heroin's work at all??

Oh wow, I'm so sorry for your loss, that's awful. Hopefully briefly getting stuck in the line will have taught the heron to stay away! Really glad to see a few made it!! Are you going to bring those ones back to your place? The fish in your ibc totes look like their doing great, I saw some nice colors in there.

Oh no!!!! That's so sad... that would ruin my entire week. 😢

I had the same thing happen to my koi and goldfish pond before. I used fishing line , a heron decoy, because herons are territorial, and a large spiked cactus plant which I put on the pond bridge where I saw him standing. I think he got pricked by the spines because some got broke off and he never came back!

Oh noooooo! At the least there’s some left but that’s really sad to experience.

Glad 3 escaped the heron...my family started a fish farm with hybrid striped bass...it was devastating to watch the osprey scoop all day.......with 4 2-acre ponds you couldn't even chase them off quick enough. We did tie milk jugs to lines across the ponds...but needed way more.... it helped a bit but the area so vast..those ponds with sheds over them at least partially seem better all the time...sorry buddy

Sorry for your losses mate had to put a net over mine to protect them heron now gone for a few months

I’m so glad that Sum survived in your mother‘s pond. I would feed him in the evenings and probably set some cameras out that you can talk too way on and you can scare them off, scare off the hearing when you see him come in. My question to you is, why don’t your Shump kins eat your mother‘s lilies? I can’t keep anything green in my shoe pumpkin tubs ha ha

Gutted for you chris Blooding herrings Massive Pain. Glad to see 3 survived

Omg sorry your loss. I’m actually surprised that herons haven’t found your mom’s pond in these many years prior. I string lines over my pond. I even forget that they are there. Herons need to take off immediately if in danger. They are smart enough not to fish in ponds where there are lines on top. We have herons flying over us every 5 minutes.

Sad to hear this Chris those Herons are a nightmare here too

Man Chris I am so sorry that you lost some of your fish 🐟! I feel bad for your Mom also! I am like you,I do not like anything messing with my Shubunkins or Koi!!!! You & I were just talking about this. Are you going to put any more fish 🐟 in your Mom’s pond?

Heron got my mom's fish as well, a few years back. After the second time she filled in the pond!

That's bad news you said dear Chris! I hope you don't give up and keep going to repopulate your ponds.

Oh no! So sorry to hear about the huge loss of your shubunkins! Bloody herons!!!! , well at least you had some survive mate, wow! You koi are stunning!!!! Nice ibc setups too , means even more stunning shubunkins!! Thanks for sharing mate 😊

Oh my that just sucks. Unfortunately as beautiful as nature is it sometimes shows the other side of it as well. At least a few survived to eat and breed some more

Nightmare mate, gutted to hear that, hope what you’ve done keeps its out….. 🤞🏼

Sorry my friend that really sucks. My Uncle who has passed he keep koi ponds. He had issues like that and also snakes and raccoons getting his koi. So he dug the ponds much deeper and all the edges were over hanging to allow fish to hide.. Hopefully you won't have any more predators come around

Loosing fish is always upsetting and frustrating. Big or small.

Gutted for you Chris Vince and I have also suffered losses and to boot also down at the farm 😢😢

Wow. I'm very sorry to see this devastation. I have not experienced great loss by herons but I have by racoons. I awoke early morning on my birthday to find a demolished sushi bar, all you can eat koi and goldfish. This was the last devastation prior to my bigger pond install. I hope with new measures in place, they learn that it's no longer a feasible option based on opportunity. All the best and sympathies my friend.

Omgosh Chris!!! So sorry of the loss of your shubunkins at your mom’s pond 😢 Gutted for you 😭 Hope the 3 you spotted will survive and thrive in there! Fishing line may not look best to some but to us it’s a fish life saving essential need to ensure their safety! ❤

Sorry to hear the news, I always worry about a cat getting into my house and taking the fish. Your fishing line idea looks so much better than a net over the pond.

Dang those herring are a pain sorry you lost so many fish.

Aww Chris I can see how sad you are 😢 so sorry about your fish 😮

I feel for you Chris we get Heron’s regular live very close to a nature reserve That’s why I trellis my pond it was coming every morning In my garden 🙏🐟🐟🐟🙏

Sorry to hear this sad news Chris 😢

Oh dear sorry for your loss of your fish Chris

New sub, sorry for your loss!🥰🤗

Oh my Chris..sorry to hear this..

Oof! Sorry to hear that! Ideas: Maybe multiple owl, fox, dog, or big bird of prey scarecrows. A couple of old clothes for scarecrows. Trail camera or two to see where the intruder comes in to secure more. Sensors that make dog sounds. Colored or Clear "blanket" or fabric) maybe not plastic?) on surface of water cut to fit in certain areas. Reddit can sometimes offer advice on the advice thread. Also, I think your fishing line needs to be in some cases very low pound test.

Mate, I hoped they survived and are just hiding. I got to tell you, though. Those ponds are awesome, and I'm really looking forward to seeing your breeding content. You've really got me back into my sarasa

Gutted for you 🥺 💔 😢

So sad! sorry about the fish Chris,

Ouch! that sucks. Hopefully, the survivors, at least, learn from the experience and know how and where to hide on the next attacks, just like rats and wild boars surviving traps and hunts.

Sorry to hear this.

Oh no thats devastating

Man, so sorry, don’t let it get ya

Good morning, Chris! I’m so sorry! I know your pain. 😭 I think I actually shouted when I saw those survivors at your mom’s house.🙌🏽 As you know, my pond has to stay enclosed. It’s a bummer, but hawks, raccoons, and opossums have all attacked my turtles and the gold fish. I know you are not new to this and you will figure it out. Water jets on a motion detector would be fun. 😁 I’d love to see those birds get blasted with water. 😂💚

I feel your pain had this myself all my fish got attacked.

Ugh, sorry to hear about your fish!

Major set back for the stubunkins line Sorry buddy Their was some real beauties selected this year

Gutted for you mate. I hope the heron doesn't return. 👍

Gutted for ya Chris. I've been a victim of the heron in the past, although it's nature and they need to eat, as fishkeepers it's devastating 👍🏼👌🏼

oh man that is bad news sorry to hear that chris if you were over here i would gladly give you some of mine

Man, I’m sorry to hear about your trouble with the heron. I hope you get it figured out, man.🐠🦯

So sorry Chris.

😭 That sucks! Damn murder birds!

So sorry

Oh jeez, might have to invest in some sort of mesh or screen over the top

Anyone who has a fish pond has a potential free sushi bar 😢 sorry for the devastation but we’ve all suffered from heron attacks. Here in the uk they are protected so limited to what we can do 🤷‍♂️

I feel for ya, brother!

Good video. What else can be done to deter fish predators ?

So sorry m8 gutting 😢

🤔🤔🤔As soon as you seen the bird should have put a net over the pond and maybe set up an electric wire. Or handle it a different way . Good luck with that.

build a fish cave also use a sprinkler jet . hope this info helps

😢 I'm deeply sorry for these beautiful fish. I hope the heron does not come back. Maybe it could be an idea to buy a plastic heron. Here in germany I see those very often to protect the ponds and some pond owners told me that it really works. They say the heron flies over, sees the plastic heron and decides not to land... already occupied for dinner they should have in mind.

Zig zag some electric fence line over / across your ponds. Best fried chicken in town. If you can't do that then possibly try some netting over it. Sorry for your loss.

Nature is a beautiful thing, but it can also be cruel. So sorry Stubby.

I know the feeling bro I just lost 6 of my African cichlids due to an ammonia spike

Sorry Chris that sucks

so sorry

feeling sorry for you I wanted to ask u which gravel do u use for ur fish tanks

Oh no mate. A peril with keeping them outside I guess but not at all nice to see.

😢😢😢

Frogs killed my fish off,none left after we came back off holiday yrs ago We decided to just leave it as wildlife pond.

Honestly the only way is to fully enclose the area. There's just really no way to stop a heron and personally it's cruel as hell to keep fish in a space to simply be eaten, when in the wild they'd either not have the issue or would have deep enough water and cover to escape. It's like leaving loads of mice in a room with a farm cat and expecting the mice not to be eaten or stressed. It's a shame but hardly the birds fault, he's just after some fish. A friend rescued 2 huge goldys from someone who's father had apparently neglected them, they arrived in a tank so small they couldn't turn and in filthy water you couldnt even see into and they werent even fully covered by the water, lifting their heads slightly to gasp for air. They loved her pond, she gave loads of hiding places, pond plants and shelves, massive plant pots, wire across the pond edge, camera and alert ⚠️ that also caused large flashes to go off which had previously scared it off... Stood in the center of the pond and ate BOTH the day after. They had just 24 hours of freedom and nice care and then.. :( I love birds, I've always really loved the heron. That, however, even broke my heart. A large walk in cover or shed adapted for fish welfare and a pond or large tank in there would be best. Otherwise this guys just gonna take everything. I think the cruelest thing I've heard from people is ' I'd rather have a nice looking garden ' than care for the fishes safety. If that's the case then don't have them. No different than 'im abandoning the dog outside to die, because he chews the house and it looks bad'. So sorry this happened to you sir, they looked gorgeous :( once the bird knows they're there, it's too late for open ponds. Also my friends pond was deep, he didn't care he just stood in the water anyway.

Oh man, that stinks so badly. I dislike that bird so much 😢

Sorry Stubbs 😢

AHH so sorry dude. Absolutely rubbish. Not sure on your exact laws out there on this sort of thing but here they are protected.

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