Sadly I have lost the first of the goldfish.
I found this one in the lower pond yesterday morning and was curious as to how it got there... was it Sunday night when I was messing around with the pumps and trying to rearrange things? Did it get pushed out of the deeper pond by bigger fish? Did something (a bird) grab it and then drop it?
Anyway, it was so out in the open I feared for it and kept checking on it throughout the morning... but there it was, just swimming around close to the surface, not hiding like the other fish. On closer inspection I saw that it was injured - missing a fin - but still able to swim around quite nicely. I should've known it was in distress, it was not acting like the other fish.
Maybe it was injured when I got it or maybe it was all the competition in the upper pond, who knows? It was fun to see it swimming around but I knew that the lower pond is too dangerous - too shallow and too easy for a predator.
The lawn guys were here yesterday afternoon after I'd left for meetings and this morning I went out to skim all the leaves and other debris they take great pleasure in blowing into the pools and found the fish floating on its side. Gone.
Now I'm down to just seven goldfish. Will they make it?
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