Well the fish seemed to do fine after its attempt at being a land
dweller, however, it did it again, but this time it was not so
fortunate and I did not find it soon enough. I now installed a "Fish
Fence" around the top edge of the barrel half constructed out of 1/2
x 1/2 black plastic hardware cloth. Its attached with small wire clips
to the liners llip and extends about 7 or so inches up.....all around
the liner except for where the board the hand pump is mounted to is
at. This moring the wife came home from work and took a look at the
fish, Last night I went and bought a replacement Shubunkin to replace
the Red / White comet, and she requested a shubunkin instead of
another Red & White and to get one with more red or orange than black
on it. I did and she remarked it was a pretty fish......We drank a cup
of coffee, and decided to go set outside and watch the fish and have
another cup. All we seen was two, the third (newest) fish was not
coming into sight at all......but it was 30 minutes earlier when she
first got home. Then I spotted it laying behind the
barrel.........another wanna be land dweller. Placed it back in pond
moved it back and forth and off it swam, hanging mostly under the
pumps discharge (more O2 I assume), so once again its a awaiting game
to see if this one is gonna make it.......The other two are just fine,
and evidently they like their new home........Now its time to make
some kind of barrier thats presentable in front of the hand pumps
mounting board, or perhaps add a flower pot on each side....The fish
only had about a 6" space on each side of the pump it could jump out
of around the entire circumference of ther barrel half, and low and
behold it did!

And I thought I was done making fences when I got rid of the cows! Now
its fish fences ;-).
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