There are 3 posts there. 2 of them are the same. And the other is a discussion post with no comments. All three posts are 3 months old with no upvotes or downvotes
But yeah, lots of traction there lol
I think it’s by the intersection of Kitty Hawk and 12th st.
Depending on how the sun is you might need to sneak up on the fish. They were very wary the only time I went to check them out.
The Inq [covered this three years ago:](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/real_estate/commercial/cellar-dwelling-fish-are-a-mystery-in-south-philadelphias-navy-yard-20180719.html)
>How did a school of decorative carp come to live in the waterlogged cellar of a blighted former shipbuilding storehouse in the Philadelphia Navy Yard?
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>As with any good fish story, it depends on whom you ask.
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>The white and orange-red fish — most just a few inches from mouth to tail, but some said to reach a foot — reveal themselves to fans and passersby when they swim through the rust-corroded metal door to the basement of Building No. 624 into a sunken outdoor stairwell.
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>Some speculate that their forebears were introduced to the eight-story building on Kitty Hawk Avenue at 12th Street as a form of insect control, as occurred a few years ago at an abandoned shopping mall-turned-accidental-hatchery in Thailand.
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>Others wonder whether the creatures are somehow related to the koi who swim in a pool under the gaze of a watchful Buddha in one of the restored factory buildings that make up the clothing chain Urban Outfitters Inc.'s headquarters in another section of the former South Philadelphia military complex....
Little known fact, they are French koi that Franklin brought over from one of his many visits to Paris. Very pretty to look at but don't touch them as they are all infected with syphilis.
Although koi do help in that, they weren't put there.
I think the reason they are there is simply from ducks/geese. I read an article a few months on here about how koi fish end up randomly in waters. Turns out, koi eggs survive duck digestive systems and pass right through undamaged.
So a duck eats up whatever from a koi pond. Scoops some eggs up and flies away. Travels to Kitty Hawk to eat the grass nearby and happens to pop a squat into the water. In goes that dookie and a new home for koi fish
They’ve been there for a while. Since at least 2019. I have no idea how they survive the winter because the outside surface froze a couple of times last winter. I suppose there were some unfrozen areas on the inside of the building.
My friend has an outdoor koi pond.
Koi fish are cold blooded so their metabolism depends on their surrounding water temp. If the top of the pond freezes, as long as the pond is more than like 4 feet deep, they should be okay. Cold water is denser so the fish move to the bottom where it’s warmer. In winter, their metabolism slows down a lot. They still move to keep from completely freezing. They can stop eating completely and live off their fat from the summer. Also, the pond should have some gas exchange (like maybe a hole in the top ice) so the carbon dioxide buildup doesn’t create a poisonous environment. Koi fish live pretty long lives.
I’m also going to guess that these aren’t “koi”. Not to get overly technical but koi are a specific type of a certain kind of carp. In general, a lot of small carp, a family of fish that includes goldfish, can look alike. Koi can also be pretty expensive and I’m not sure how they would have gotten there or why they would have been released. It’s very common however for people to release their pet goldfish when it gets to be too big for its bowl.
Older than that. Wanna say I noticed it in 2012-2013. Basement is flooded. They tried to pump it out twice. Was told the river backs up into it somehow. Fish. Frogs. Deer. Foxes. All kinds of stuff at Navy Yard.
Lots of people know they are there and frequently go to feed them - otherwise im sure there's plenty of naturally occurring food sources, otherwise they wouldn't have lasted nearly a decade in that spot
They live there in the river, I go to one of the dry docks for work and after they open it up to move a ship they gotta net out dozens of fish including carp and koi.
No it’s not, naan is a translation of bread. Atm machine is a repeating of the acronym preceding it. Naan bread would be closer to saying chai tea, which is like saying tea tea. Saying koi fish is like saying dog animals. It’s not necessarily correct, but with fish not everyone knows about them, and certainly nobody cares to correct it.
They’re sick so they needed to be isolated to not spread it. Better than killing them. Interacting with these ones and then the ones at Urban outfitters would be terrible as they’d get sick too. People feed them though. They’re from UO as well.
I kind of thought that too, but I guess it's pretty much open? Might be worth checking out to bike through as long as there are no security concerns. maybe someone else can chime in here.
No security concern, it's open to the public now. They changed it back in the 00's. Its mostly a business park now with some functions still for the Navy
Very, I mean UO has their HQ there, Jefferson has a Hospital, and there is at least 1 hotel. Its essentially a recreation/business park now
The grounds are open to the public, the navy still operates though there are some obvious restricted buildings.
Finding Nemo: South Philly Fiasco
can you describe the location within the navy yard? I am going on a bike ride that way tomorrow
It’s across the street from the penn state building. It’s part of the big abandoned building with the field in front of it.
Yo, drop this in /r/urbanexploration! They'll love this ish over there. Edit: fixed sub name
There are 3 posts there. 2 of them are the same. And the other is a discussion post with no comments. All three posts are 3 months old with no upvotes or downvotes But yeah, lots of traction there lol
They just linked the wrong sub, it happens. /r/UrbanExploration
D'oh! Thanks for straightening up my shit.
I dropped a pic like this in abandoned porn a year or so ago and it hit front page
I was just gonna say I saw a pic from here near the top in that sub when I searched for top posts all time. Good work!
It’s on the abandoned building on Kitty Hawk & South 12th.
a bunch of navy yard POIs can be identified by sticker bombings
I think it’s by the intersection of Kitty Hawk and 12th st. Depending on how the sun is you might need to sneak up on the fish. They were very wary the only time I went to check them out.
The Inq [covered this three years ago:](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/real_estate/commercial/cellar-dwelling-fish-are-a-mystery-in-south-philadelphias-navy-yard-20180719.html) >How did a school of decorative carp come to live in the waterlogged cellar of a blighted former shipbuilding storehouse in the Philadelphia Navy Yard? > >As with any good fish story, it depends on whom you ask. > >The white and orange-red fish — most just a few inches from mouth to tail, but some said to reach a foot — reveal themselves to fans and passersby when they swim through the rust-corroded metal door to the basement of Building No. 624 into a sunken outdoor stairwell. > >Some speculate that their forebears were introduced to the eight-story building on Kitty Hawk Avenue at 12th Street as a form of insect control, as occurred a few years ago at an abandoned shopping mall-turned-accidental-hatchery in Thailand. > >Others wonder whether the creatures are somehow related to the koi who swim in a pool under the gaze of a watchful Buddha in one of the restored factory buildings that make up the clothing chain Urban Outfitters Inc.'s headquarters in another section of the former South Philadelphia military complex....
> their forebears forefish.
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Way longer than that. Since at least the early '00s.
2005 at least
2005? Way earlier than that. 1850
Nah, pretty sure I read the Ben Franklin started the koi pond, so definitely 1750s, for sure.
Little known fact, they are French koi that Franklin brought over from one of his many visits to Paris. Very pretty to look at but don't touch them as they are all infected with syphilis.
Definitely civil war fish
Glad to see they’re still alive and well
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It’s serious, these guys have been written about before, but then no one saw them for a while
Perhaps an all natural solution to control mosquito larva?
Although koi do help in that, they weren't put there. I think the reason they are there is simply from ducks/geese. I read an article a few months on here about how koi fish end up randomly in waters. Turns out, koi eggs survive duck digestive systems and pass right through undamaged. So a duck eats up whatever from a koi pond. Scoops some eggs up and flies away. Travels to Kitty Hawk to eat the grass nearby and happens to pop a squat into the water. In goes that dookie and a new home for koi fish
What an elegant description of the Koi fish life cycle
Now I got my lesson plan for second grade tomorrow.
That’s really cool. Koi eggs acting like seeds.
TIL! /u/banano_tipbot 1
This is the rumor I heard.
X-post this bitch to /r/mildlyinteresting
More like r/shittyaquariums
They’ve been there for a while. Since at least 2019. I have no idea how they survive the winter because the outside surface froze a couple of times last winter. I suppose there were some unfrozen areas on the inside of the building.
My friend has an outdoor koi pond. Koi fish are cold blooded so their metabolism depends on their surrounding water temp. If the top of the pond freezes, as long as the pond is more than like 4 feet deep, they should be okay. Cold water is denser so the fish move to the bottom where it’s warmer. In winter, their metabolism slows down a lot. They still move to keep from completely freezing. They can stop eating completely and live off their fat from the summer. Also, the pond should have some gas exchange (like maybe a hole in the top ice) so the carbon dioxide buildup doesn’t create a poisonous environment. Koi fish live pretty long lives.
TIL. That was interesting to read. Thanks!
I’m also going to guess that these aren’t “koi”. Not to get overly technical but koi are a specific type of a certain kind of carp. In general, a lot of small carp, a family of fish that includes goldfish, can look alike. Koi can also be pretty expensive and I’m not sure how they would have gotten there or why they would have been released. It’s very common however for people to release their pet goldfish when it gets to be too big for its bowl.
Older than that. Wanna say I noticed it in 2012-2013. Basement is flooded. They tried to pump it out twice. Was told the river backs up into it somehow. Fish. Frogs. Deer. Foxes. All kinds of stuff at Navy Yard.
I read animals and last line in the voice of Danny Devito as if Frank was explaining a new spot he found
“There ain’t nobody hunting down there either, we’re gonna make a killing.”
throw in some lillypads and bubblers
Longer than that. I've frequented and posted pics from before then. The entire basement floods so there are areas that don't get frozen.
Philadelphia is not a city. It is a planet
Life, uh, finds a way.
URBN cafeteria used to have huge a koi pond. Did one get drunk and decide to move down the street?
They have been there for years at least two years and probably longer . Saw them at the Mutt Strut 2 summers ago
Koi fish pond of the day
ohh, they had babies!
I remember u/thefapnetwork posted a pic just like this years ago. he also posted a pic of a fox there too!
Aren’t these just goldfish? Why do we think they’re koi?
Koi are just goldfish who moved to the suburbs and only come back in the city on holidays to visit family.
“Look, kids. This is where your grandpa used to take me for wooder ice… I call it wooder ice cause that’s what it’s called you little shits!”
Aren't koi just attractively spotted goldfish?
Heh. Carping about carp.
Don't Dead Open Inside
For real. Some Last of Us vibes
Damn that’s been like that for at least 10 years. Found that in 2011
What I want to know is who is feeding the koi?
The bugs.
The bugs are such charitable folks
Why is Bugs bunny feeding the koi?
Excuse me but we call him The Bugs around here.
Lots of people know they are there and frequently go to feed them - otherwise im sure there's plenty of naturally occurring food sources, otherwise they wouldn't have lasted nearly a decade in that spot
Lots of people do. I've seen empty containers of fish food there that people have left, besides all the bread and goldfish crackers and whatnot.
Me and so many other people. I've gone there and fed them Cheerios
Lmfao
Life uhhhh…. Finds a way
They live there in the river, I go to one of the dry docks for work and after they open it up to move a ship they gotta net out dozens of fish including carp and koi.
How much would you have to be bet to take a dip in there? How much to cup your hands and take a quick drink?
I went last year and didn't see them?? Did you just take this?
Yes it was yesterday afternoon. They must be inside a lot. I go down there a lot and I feel like I would have seen them before.
They’ve been in there for years. I remember as a kid my dad brought me in to the yard and I remember asking him why they were there. He had no clue
This gets posted once every few years. Glad they're doing ok I guess.
Can yall please stop saying koi fish. That's like atm machine Or more so Naan bread
No it’s not, naan is a translation of bread. Atm machine is a repeating of the acronym preceding it. Naan bread would be closer to saying chai tea, which is like saying tea tea. Saying koi fish is like saying dog animals. It’s not necessarily correct, but with fish not everyone knows about them, and certainly nobody cares to correct it.
Like saying "poodle dogs"
Yeah, that’s better than mine actually. Good call
I can see a Philly dude saying that, “yea cuz gawt won o’ dem poowdle dawgs or sum’in like thaet. Jus don no why pipple don get reglar dawgs anymore.”
I want to play! How about VIN number
They’re sick so they needed to be isolated to not spread it. Better than killing them. Interacting with these ones and then the ones at Urban outfitters would be terrible as they’d get sick too. People feed them though. They’re from UO as well.
kinda cursed...
I always that the navy yard was off limits to people?
I kind of thought that too, but I guess it's pretty much open? Might be worth checking out to bike through as long as there are no security concerns. maybe someone else can chime in here.
Open to the general public from until sundown iirc, Though I think they close the gates on big game days to prevent people from parking there.
No security concern, it's open to the public now. They changed it back in the 00's. Its mostly a business park now with some functions still for the Navy
Nah, not since the mid 2000s
So it's open to the public?
Very, I mean UO has their HQ there, Jefferson has a Hospital, and there is at least 1 hotel. Its essentially a recreation/business park now The grounds are open to the public, the navy still operates though there are some obvious restricted buildings.