Hooray, my parents are on their way back...phew. So, in honor of them coming back I wanted to make sure the koi fish pond had fresh water so my dad can see his precious fish. My mom had cleaned it before they left so in about a month the water went from clear to forrest green. I was starting to panic because from a total of 5 fish I could only see two and that was when they came up for food. I was beginning to think that the others had died.
I started to clean, keep in mind that I've never done this, I've only watched my mom do it before. I took out the water and found all of the fish alive, Yay. I put the fish in a huge bucket with the same water as my mom does it. I began to sord of scrub all the yucky stuff as much as I could. By this time I took a break since Ismael came home with dinner. I had a quick dinner and returned to my pending job. I took a look at the fish and I noticed they kept going up as if they wanted air or something (but fish don't breath air) so I gave them food thinking they were hungry and it was the time I usually feed them. Then I noticed something was going wrong. My dad's two favorite fish which he's had since they were small started to look very weird. They started to swim sideways. So I panicked, I rushed to rinse the pond and put fresh water in it along with the drops to take the chlorine out. Before the pond filled up the two fish stoped swimming and began to float but were still breathing. At this point I thought OH S*%!, what am I going to tell my dad. These fish are about $80ea. at that size. I seriously thought I was going to have a heart attack. I had given up, began to think that maybe I could replace them and my dad won't notice. That wont work cause these fish knew my dad, he had them spoiled. then I started thinking of his reaction, not a good one. My heart was pounding fassst. Then Ismael told me to put them in the pond even though it still wasn't full. I was hesitant to do that thinking why would I put a dead fish in a clean pond. Ismael kept insisting as the fish were still breathing. So I put them in, took about 2 mins for the first one to start swimming slowly. The second was not moving, it just layed there on its side. Then about 5 mins later he started to show life. Oh my goodness that was a huge scare. As of right now all 5 fish are happily swimming in the clear water pond or so I think.
Here are pictures of the survivors:
The white fish and the orange/red with black fish were the ones to blame for my almost heart attack.
1 comment:
I am sooo glad the ending result was live koi fish... you had my heart pounding for you:)
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