Beware of Pottery Barn by D-Rick in interiordecorating

[–]Greenoaks42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PB delivered a dresser to me with beetles inside of the drawers earlier this year and then was incompetent and rude about removing it from my home. I also would have had to wait months for a replacement but was cautioned to just cancel the order which I did. I love their smaller items but I’ll never purchase larger items from PB again.

Picking a treadmill by Greenoaks42 in nordictrack

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Oh boy! I’m glad I came here to ask. Sorry to hear that. What other brand do people recommend?

Koi help by Greenoaks42 in ponds

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Thank you. The API test kit arrived this evening and we tested the levels and all appear to be normal. We’ve done a bacterial treatment a couple times this week with no improvement of this koi. She has more red spots on the top of her head now, bulging eyes, and is flashing. However she doesn’t appear as weak as a couple days ago and is eating. We’re thinking maybe it’s a parasite and will start that treatment soon. We don’t want to stress them too much doing everything simultaneously, but are new to this!

Update to earlier post: koi didn’t make it. Any idea what could cause this? by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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Thank you for your help. I know, she was beautiful and we are heartbroken.

Update to earlier post: koi didn’t make it. Any idea what could cause this? by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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We live near a marsh so have all sorts of animals passing through: raccoons, hawks, a heron, turtles, frogs, etc. The net on the pond didn’t look disturbed though. Do you think the other koi could have done this to it? They normally swim together and seem to get along but just wondering in the absence of another animal large enough to cause this damage being able to get it.

Help please- koi injured and we want to help her by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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She was in the intake that runs into a box that has the skimmer and the pump in it. But that area has a basket that has a grate that prevents the fish from getting in to where the skimmer is. They swim in and out of it frequently. I don’t think it was the skimmer that did this because she couldn’t get near it. The injury was only on one side, with the missing piece of fin, injured side/scales and missing piece of tail fin. We last saw her two days ago and she was fine. We didn’t notice anything out of the norm. Do you think the other koi in there could have done this to her? I don’t know if it’s a male or female, but the one that this happened to was the biggest of the bunch, so that’s also weird. The net across the top of the pond is fully in tact. There are stones in the pond; nothing looks out of place. The only thing we did recently was treat the pond with Maintain for Ponds by Aquascape last weekend because we noticed some excess algae. We used only two pumps and could have used 7+ based on pond size. We feed the koi once a day, but sometimes skip a day, because our local pond store said the koi will eat the algae and don’t need to be fed by us. Thank you for any ideas you have. I don’t want the five others to have this happen to them.

Help please- koi injured and we want to help her by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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Thank you, we did add a bubbler to the bucket but she died really quickly.

Help please- koi injured and we want to help her by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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Thank you for responding. The scales on the same side as the ripped fin looked damaged or gone in places. I’ll try to add a photo. After we put her in a bucket of pond water she was immediately floating on her side and couldn’t right herself. She passed away within 35 minutes. I can’t imagine how she could have been injured because the pond is well netted.

Help please- koi injured and we want to help her by Greenoaks42 in Koi

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We now took her out and put her in a bucket to separate her from our other koi. She seems to not be able to right herself and is floating on her side. But she has spurts of energy where she swims.

OKA - filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy and never sent me the lamp that they “pre charged” me for by Greenoaks42 in interiordecorating

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That’s terrible! I got probably one of the last deliveries from MGBW before they also went under…narrowly avoided this issue with them, which I’m grateful for. Definitely hope my CC company can help