TR and I decided to clean out the pond today since we've had a fish killing epidemic lately. We got most of the water out before we could catch the fish, including our two Koi, Stevie and Darby.
You might have to enlarge this diagram, just for the fun of it.Sorry for the picture quality. They wouldn't hold still. Darn fish.
We scooped out Stevie, Darby, and 6 tribes (originally 12, as in the 12 tribes of Israel, but we'll get to that in a minute.)
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that some of our tribes had white spots, one had black spots, and some were a lot smaller than the goldfish I remember buying. So TR and I sat down and did the math.
We originally bought 12 feeder goldfish, known as the 12 tribes, with only one that wasn't solid gold named Benjamin, or Benji for short who was a solid gray color.
Benji and one other tribe were lost within three days of purchase. We were down to ten tribes.
Two more tribes didn't make it past two more weeks. Now we only had 8 tribes left.
Then the fish epidemic struck, and we lost four more tribes this week. That leaves us with only 4 tribes left, assuming we got all the tribes and none were carried off by birds or cannibalistic fish.
This of course, does not include Darby and Stevie, since it would be very obvious if they were dead, and of course, they weren't.
But if you look at the diagram, we have 6 tribes, besides Darby and Stevie from our pond, and tribe 3 is very VERY small. We like to think of him as a Mini tribe.
There is no denying it, Darby and Stevie are proud parents of at least two of the fish currently in our pond!
Does that make us fishy grandparents?
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