strange new fish

It was. I'll usually do a discount for neighbours but he was getting a really good price for the amount of work involved already.

Glad I didn't as he turned out to be a total bully, not just to me & my workers, but to his suppliers too, we could hear him on the phone.

If only he knew about the guinea pig :hehe:

Wonder if I could sue over the colour of Eric the fish.

 

This is in line with a happening in my small pond, Sitting there one day I spied a single black fish, no idea where it might have come from but in time I accepted that one of the Goldfish had had babies and this single black fish survived being eaten because of it's colour. Only this summer has it started to change to gold after two years.

 

Yep - seems baby goldfish often start out as black, though did not know this till a few years ago when our ponds became inundated with smarms of little black tiddlers - keeps the local heron well amused as we have our ponds netted so he can only window shop!........some do turn back to goldish if they survive long enough - glad to hear others have the same experience.

Does this happen to other pond fish other than goldfish?
Anyone bred any other fish in their ponds?