Well I constructed a mega sponge filter today for the pond. It probably cost a whopping 15 bucks to make. I will get a pic soon. I was cleaning up the pond, installed the filter, and low and behold I see the rosy barb swimming around. This is the fish that I could not catch last year when I was getting all the fish out at the end of the season. It made it thru the winter! The water got down to 46F at one point this winter and somehow this beast made it! Crazy.... The water is now around 55F and the barb seems pretty active. I started feeding the pond lightly to get it going. I want to dump the fish into the pond in a week or two. I still can't believe that the barb lived. I guess they are tough little fish!
In my 20 gallon long I have been quarintining goldfish I bought about 3 weeks ago. I have 1 orange lionhead (Bob-O), 1 white and orange ranchu (Lumpy), 2 small pearlscales (no names yet), 2 red orandas ( the small black and orange is Oscar), 1 calico oranda (Ruby), 1 fat orange and black pearlscale (fat bast#rd). I also have 4 dojo's in the 20. They all had a slight bout with ich and that cleared up no problem. I will try to get some pics but I really suck at pictures. I also made some homemade frozen fish food. Fish, shrimp, squid, nori, peas, broccoli, garlic all blended up, throw in some gelatin and freeze! I am going to powerfeed these bad boys this summer. I want fat fish!
