Showing posts with label new goldfish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new goldfish. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

That was a whirlwind trip, Monday!

Off we went to the city for special shopping trip. JB wanted a vest to hold his stuff. No man purse for him!

He needed something to hold his stuff whilst doing Meals on Wheels: his phone, keys, wallet, and his new camera will all fit in. It is mesh, and will be cool in summer.

We finally found one online at Cabela's new Ottawa store. What a store! It is enormous. Lots of stuffed animals, including a moose, caribou, coyotes, deer, bear. It gave me a bit of the heebee-jeebies, although it was interesting to see what they look like close up. The coyotes are small. Ours seem much bigger!


Little bear (above), roasting marshmellows, needed a home. He was broken, probably dropped, and only the one light under his fire works. It lights, partially, but I found him in the sales department. What the heck! The solar powered sensor was reglued on it. It was 50% off the full price of $70, then 25% off of that. I gave it a home.

 After that, we went to lunch at a newish find: Fratelli. Lovely Italian place with actually great pasta. Too much pasta is over cooked. We've been before. It's tough to find really good pasta places. These are from both our visits. Excellent service, and lovely decor.



Next stop: Big Al's. That was amazing! I can't remember what these worms are, but they are rather creepy.
 

Then, hubby noticed these iguanas were having a moment! I'd neglected to bring in my camera, so I borrowed his.


Finally, we bought three more comet goldfish for the goldfish pond. We've lost a few over the winter. Home again, jiggedy jig, to pop them in the aquarium. One big, new happy family.

Friday, 15 May 2015

New goldfish in the refurbished pond!

I spontaneously decided to buy a few more goldfish. Off to Big Al's!
I usually turn off the fountain while I feed them.


We lost quite a few goldfish in the winter. I've deepened the pond and I hope that will help. We had 2 dozen overwinter the previous year. We had about a dozen to add from the indoor winter tank. I had feline helpers putting the new fish into the pond.

There are many species of goldfish. Shirley I, the first, was supposedly a Shubunkin. I'm not convinced! She has bred well with the others. We were given 5 goldfish rescued from a ditch. Truly amazing, since they eat their eggs! It's hard to determine species. You can buy the cheap 'feeder goldfish', but I wanted to add some good genes into the pool. Our new three are large Sarasa Comet, from China. They grow to the size of their containers.

Refurbished goldfish pond!


Here is Shirley IV and a buddy inside in the winter fish tank. They are terribly difficult to photograph outdoors. They are very happy swimming along like little sharks, their fins up out of the water!

After the deed was done we feed them.


New goldfish from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
Big trip into the city and we came home with three new goldfish.