I've had aquaria since I was probably 11 or 12 years old and since have always loved having tanks of fish in my home. Presently I have a school of Green Sail Fin Mollies in a 55 gallon tank. Once I moved into my house and got everything set up I began searching for old school green sail fins but all the local pet stores only sold the newer "designer" types which I didn't want. Finally I located a place in Texas and ordered about 15. Some of my fish died day by day so my stock is now down to about 10 but last week one of my females gave birth to a half dozen fry. The wee ones are eating like sharks and growing like weeds.
My goose girls had been setting on a clutch of eggs for about a month when the other day we had a torrential downpour of rain. My property is on the side of a hill and the girls had made their nest in the lowest part of their yard. When the rain slacked up I went out and saw all but one of my fowl walking about. I went to their enclosure and found the nest under about 6" of water where the rain had washed leaves to the fence and crated a dam.
I dug a hole to bury the eggs (to get some use of them). When I broke open one egg I saw the goslings were only about 2 days from hatching. Needless to say it was heart wrenching to be so close and lose my wee ones.
But as I said at the start of my blog I'll share my successes and failures.
I'm looking to buy a truckload or 2 of just butt ugly fill dirt to shore up my low spots and try to not level but terrace my yard a bit to keep it from becoming a bog quite so often.
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