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EOD update:
1. new friends++
2. playing god
either seeking adventure or a prompt conclusion to his captivity, middle-fish martyred himself by jumping out of bowl, off shelf, and onto hostile keyboards below. perhaps it was the fall, or the time it took to retrieve him from between the f4 and f5 keys; he simply didn't work so good when returned to bowl.
flush.
big fish lasted two hours longer: mild stability problems (drunken sailing?) progressed to the point he eventually began to float cartoonishly belly-up. biting my lip, i watched him sway with the water level to the rhythm of my typing.
flush.
small, previously backwards-swimming fish, now swims mostly forward in recently vacated bowl with fresh oxygenated water.
it's been a hard day for goldfish.
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update [february 17, 2005 - 9:20 AM]
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small fish has survived the night.
appears to be very healthy today.
i have named him julius.
because he is orange.
duh.
Comments
Rama-lama-ding-dong,
I don't know if you have, but you gotta add this stuff to the goldfish water to make it breathable for them, otherwise be prepared to be be doing some more flushing. I don't know if that is your problem and why three fish decided to take the short route to the bay, but if I were a betting man (and I am) that'd be my guess.
Posted by: Karen Lee's Roomate who cooks. at March 25, 2005 08:48 PM
My mom used to take me to get Orange Julius's when I was a kid. Fantastic! The connection with Julius? He had an orchard in Iberia.
Posted by: jeff at April 10, 2005 09:15 PM