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Sorry to hear about your goldfish, Leaf. I've lost a few to herons over the years. During the last week, I've had a couple of different species of the long-legged waders checking out the pond in my horse paddocks (actually a huge puddle from ridiculous amounts of rain) and I figure it's just a...

Y'know, it's funny. One of the first kinds of fish I had were guppies. I'll bet you've never heard of someone who could fail at breeding guppies, have you? Well, I did. Oh, I managed to keep the adults alive, and they did produce babies on a regular basis, but the fry never grew up. Even if I...

Just a note - Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, "salt" is sodium chloride. They are very different things! Aquarium salt is made from evaporated seawater. It contains mostly sodium chloride, but also other minerals that are found in seawater. The reason you don't want to use "table salt" in an...

A couple of pics of our "rescue" goldfish in their 20 long. The plants are plastic, of course - much as I prefer the real thing, I had to work with what I have. The water from the "redneck pond" had a lot of dissolved tannins in it; partial water changes have lightened things up, but the water...

I put them in an unused 20 long that I had most recently been using as a chick brooder; figured that would do for now. I thought about putting them out in the plastic pond in the front yard, but there are two 6" goldfish in there already; I'm not sure that it can reasonably support more without...

We recently became the owners of half a dozen small goldfish. When the fair closed for the season, the game booth that had live goldfish as the prize was just going to dump the leftover fish. Fortunately for the fish, one of the kids that volunteer in the livestock tent was on hand; several of...

LeafBlade, I know everyone meant well, but did it occur to anyone that being touched by even one human was incredibly stressful for that deer? Deer are wild animals; I don't care how well-meaning the bikers were, if the deer was aware that they were touching it, it wasn't being comforted, it was...