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The Calm Before The Storm.....

The Saga of The Fish – Chapter 7

So, we had happy fish for now, but with the attention they needed I really wanted to have them nearer to the main building to save time and enable us to check more regularly on them, the pumps and the filters. When they go downhill is seems to happen very quickly. Would be nice to have them close to be part of the Kernow family too.

Another tank was found on the property, was duly cleaned up and installed in our Secret Garden where hopefully, if they survived yet another move, they could become a feature for our guests to visit, and be looked after better. I had huge reservations about moving them again, but based on their new predilection for town water the biggest barrier had been overcome. During their stay at their temporary location near The Pond we had gradually introduced them to more and more of it, and they seemed to have fully adjusted to it, thank goodness.

Then it was just a ‘simple’ task of gradually moving a few each day. Easier said than done! You’d have thought that in such a captive area it would be easy but these fish are fast – and canny! It took blooming ages (and believe me that’s not the word I used at the time!).

Their new home of the tank and the old cattle trough were thus all town water, regularly flushed, and with more pumps, oxygenator plants and now a filter! It was all becoming five-star accommodation for our new fish – but what else would you expect at Kernow!

New routines were established, and we made covers out of netting to offer protection from the sun and from all the leaves that were falling – and probably from the Kernow Kats who were starting to show an interest. And not only in the fish. We discovered that Scampi and Solo like fish food – but then then Solo will eat pretty much anything!

Tune in soon for a picture of feeding time!

The Saga of The Fish – Chapter 4

Didn’t want to leave things on such a sad note for too long, and for fear of being labelled a fish-killer when we really were trying to save them, so here’s the next chapter to cheer you up!

But lo, there were more metallic spots seen – and gold ones this time. The more we peered, the more we saw. This time we prepared a semi-murky trough of water using some of the less-goopy water from the sump, topped up with bore water, and started ‘fishing around’ in the true sense of the word, digging for gold. Well, soon enough we had a mass of small goldfish which were gradually transferred to the now more palatable trough. Trouble was, there were more, and more, and more, and then we found The Big Ones!

Tune in soon for the next chapter…