Koi Pond Hats

Koi are the backyard hobby with a lifespan problem: they commonly live 40 to 60 years, and Hanako, a koi reportedly 226 years old when she died in 1977, is the famous disputed claim that the fish may outlast the keeper. Keepers plan for it. They also plan for herons. The University of Georgia extension notes that herons visit at dawn and dusk and that scissor-like double stab holes in a pond liner mean a heron missed its fish, and describes a shallow pond full of nice fish as a neon sign flashing "Buffet. Open 24 Hours." One Chicago koi keeper put about $25,000 into a 6-foot-deep pond, ran a decoy, aerator bubbles and a radio playing around the clock, and still lost four large koi to a great blue heron. These koi pond hats are for that keeper. Three badges carry the searched terms: KOI POND, WATER GARDENER and KOI DAD, a phrase already sold on koi dad shirts and pond dad hats. The sentence designs cover the rest of the hobby: the pond as a hole in the ground you pour money into, the koi as a goldfish that costs $2,000, the warning to herons, the plan to leave the fish to the grandkids, and the second pond built after the first. The money-pit and grandkids lines each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one at the pond, or give one to the keeper who names the fish.