I have 7 gold fish in one of my ponds. They are the last survivors of setting the pond to rights after a mysterious die off of most of my fish. It took me years to realize that the fill tube was resting in the water after all the years of being bumped around and it is made of copper. The copper has deteriorated and was poisoning the water. Once I pulled it out of the water, cleared all the ponds and plants and started new, I was able to finally restore this last one. These current fish were the last I added that didn’t die and they became the 7 Samurai Fish.
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However, in the last couple of months, I have only had 6 come for breakfast. I count them every day just to keep an eye on how they are doing. I looked and found the 7th one a couple of times, far from the herd and not eating. I was sure he was about to send his electricity to the cosmic pool and was not surprised when I didn’t find him again.
But, today, in the pouring rain, I was watching the pond and saw all 7 fish! I was very shocked! I don’t know why he has separated himself from his brethren and I don’t know what he is eating, but I was glad to see him.
The lives of gold fish are probably pretty small to most folks. They are tiny in the big scheme of things but they bring me a lot of joy. They don’t seem to fight among themselves, they don’t demand constant attention, they can survive quite a lot of neglect and temperature differences. I like them!