![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Free the fishies and other autumn tales
Oct. 20th, 2008 11:19 amWe were fretting over what to do with the fishies over the winter and were presented with another option: release them in a good-sized pond. It already contains released goldfish and their carpy descendants, and it's enclosed (and thus unlikely to contaminate other waterways). So yesterday, a brilliant fall day with a nip in the air, we did the deed.
One of them immediately peeled off and hid under the duckweed, not to be seen again. The others huddled in a tight school, their bodies almost touching and their little fins going as they worked against the current. After a bit, the most venturesome of those darted off a bit, exploring the bottom in the shallows, nibbling on this and that. The others followed suit and the tight school became a loose group.
Will they survive? I really don't know. There are egrets, and herons... I console myself that they're the class of goldfish called "feeders," destined by commerce to be lunch for an arowana or some such. They had several months of protected living (although I inadvertently killed one of them) and tripled in size. Now they have a shot at digging into the mud and making it through the winter. I think they even looked as though they were sort of happy about their new home.
The Scamp has been on the hunt in the kitchen -- I guess we've had a mouse or mice come in from the cold. There's another set of mouse hindquarters on the back steps.
My sansevieria bloomed after all. I have pictures, which I'll upload to Flickr later.
One of them immediately peeled off and hid under the duckweed, not to be seen again. The others huddled in a tight school, their bodies almost touching and their little fins going as they worked against the current. After a bit, the most venturesome of those darted off a bit, exploring the bottom in the shallows, nibbling on this and that. The others followed suit and the tight school became a loose group.
Will they survive? I really don't know. There are egrets, and herons... I console myself that they're the class of goldfish called "feeders," destined by commerce to be lunch for an arowana or some such. They had several months of protected living (although I inadvertently killed one of them) and tripled in size. Now they have a shot at digging into the mud and making it through the winter. I think they even looked as though they were sort of happy about their new home.
The Scamp has been on the hunt in the kitchen -- I guess we've had a mouse or mice come in from the cold. There's another set of mouse hindquarters on the back steps.
My sansevieria bloomed after all. I have pictures, which I'll upload to Flickr later.
