When I lived in Tucson for 10 months a few years ago, I bought an aquarium at a yard sale for $10. I cleaned it and bought a bunch of goldfish and they all died, one by one... guess Tucson city water isn't real fish friendly... anyway there were two survivors when it was time to pack up and move back to Oregon... "Goldie" and "Spot"... they rode in a white plastic bucket in the very back of our Rider truck all the way home and made it! They resided happily here for a few years and just a few weeks ago, "Spot" was history. So, "Goldie" had the tank to itself... Last week Mike left our ditch water lines open to drain them and found tons of baby fish on the ground in the morning... guess they escaped the fish screens put up by Fish and Wildlife. We rescued a bunch and Mike put them back in the river. I took six of them and put them in with "Goldie". It was fun to watch them and try to figure out if they are steelhead or suckers or what...? Then "Goldie" started lying on the bottom and I put it (her?) in a big one gallon jar away from the intruders.. and yesterday she was floating! The wild fish are interesting, but the gold fish was old and had a history! So, now I have 4 river fish in my aquarium...... maybe one day I will blog what happens to them!............. Do you care?
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