Re: [GSAS-Member] shubunkin rescue - success!

[haika@drizzle.com]

If you want to come over and take your pick, there are quite a few that
will probably work out well. I really don't want to hold them till the
next meeting since they are being housed in 5 gallon buckets (weak
grin)....doing daily water changes.

Clay - there are two nice biggish shubunkins I've got in their own bucket.
These are probably purebred...from the initial purchase. There are also
some 'apparent' shubunkins in the medium-sized fish bucket. I'll hold
those for you but the sooner they go, the better.

My neighbor will be picking up anything that hasn't found a home on Friday
so we need to figure out how this is going to play out before then.

I'm keeping all the baby shubunkins....but some of those may be comets
that I don't want. Wish I knew more about the color development. Any other
good way to separate shubunkins from comets other than color patterning???
Of course some of these are probably 'mixes'....still pretty. I'm not a
goldfish 'breed' expert by any means.

Betty Goetz - in Bothell, near Canyon Park

> Betty,
>
> I can't help out with the netting. But I can absolutely help out with
> housing two if they are available. We have an outdoor, heated,
> protected goldfish pot. One of the residents used to be an indoor PET
> that we rescued from the orphan tank at The Fish Store. His name is
> Spud... and he looks like a potato. Spud likes company.
>
> Lisa Chan
>
> On Dec 30, 2006, at 3:23 PM, haika@drizzle.com wrote:
>
>> Meredith and I will have to write up something about this adventure!
>> Bottom line is that we successfully rescued 20 or so goldfish of all
>> sizes. There are plenty more in the pond, but we learned that due
>> to the
>> vegetation (a huge hunk in the middle which was way too heavy for
>> us to
>> pull out) and ice chunks, the seine net was ineffective. However,
>> we were
>> able (through brute bucket-brigade force and some hose siphoning)
>> to drain
>> down the pond enough to start netting fish. We need a long handled
>> net to
>> catch some of the ones that are hanging out in the middle. I'll have
>> Sunday and Monday off....if anyone wants to come help get the rest.
>> It's
>> way too dangerous to do this alone....story to follow (heads up
>> Steev!).
>>
>> Betty Goetz
>>
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