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RIP Minnows
Mar. 27th, 2010 12:26 pmI've discovered some tiny casualties of Monday's big storm. My pond did not only fill with rainwater, but earth and other debris from all over, which was too much for the minute gills of my White Cloud Mountain Minnows.
I've only found four bodies but nobody came up for fish food on Wednesday. The original population was ten, two years ago, but I know they've been breeding. They're actually a Chinese species, very tough, with a $50,000 price on their heads if owners were to release them into an Australian waterway. No, I don't know how authorities would find out, but it gives an idea of how successful these little invaders can be.
This event reflects in miniature what's happened in the local Swan River since the storm. Fish have died and amphibians have done their best to struggle out of the deadly cocktail which the river water became.
I've only found four bodies but nobody came up for fish food on Wednesday. The original population was ten, two years ago, but I know they've been breeding. They're actually a Chinese species, very tough, with a $50,000 price on their heads if owners were to release them into an Australian waterway. No, I don't know how authorities would find out, but it gives an idea of how successful these little invaders can be.
This event reflects in miniature what's happened in the local Swan River since the storm. Fish have died and amphibians have done their best to struggle out of the deadly cocktail which the river water became.