I am posting from Minneapolis, Minnesota where it looks like winter
will be grabbing ahold of us. So it was
'shut-down-the-pond-and-take-in-the-fish' day today. All went well, we
after an hour of trying managed to catch all our fish. The fun part
was there were two more fish than we started out with!! I would never
have believed fish would multiply in captivity, but there you are. Our
fish are goldfish that started out two seasons ago as 'feeder' fish.
One of the two year adults has lost much of its coloring (wonder if it
was focussing on some sort of bad, bad insect larvea). The two new
fish are small and must be juveniles but the iteresting part is the
coloration - seems like lots of black scattered about both critters.
Could this be some sort of genetic 'throwback,' sorta.

Jack Ferman