My Troubling

Ginger – A red wakin purchased from Fins, Feathers, Paws, and Claws in Harleysville PA.

Cal – Small silver and red spotted shubunkin purchased at Aquatic Connections, September 2007.

Sil – Silver shubunkin purchased along with Cal (above) and Dom, who got caught in my pump intake grille in Spring 2008 (RIP). Very small when purchased, he has grown big and plump.

Flash – Red and white watonai from Steve Hopkin’s Rain Garden in Hawai’i flown in October 2007.

Sparky – White dominate watonai that came in the same box as Flash. Lately, she has become calico. If the color change is permanent, I will have to change the photo! Update: the black is going away, so no change is necessary.

Bronzini – black and reddish orange shubunkin purchased at Center Point Pond in April 08 to replace Dom:

In April of ‘08, I received a second shipment from Steve in Hawai’i. It included a big dominate red wakin with white fringes on its fins that I have named Michael, for the FedEx driver who has been so attentive to the shipments:

Another fish in the shipment was Michelle, a red watonai with white fringed caudals:

The other fish from Steve were very small. Here’s a wakin with a white saddle I call Bandit:

The jikin with a white head, I call Wayne, after Wayne Whitehead, my sister’s boyfriend:

The tiny deep red jikin I call Rouge. She is the smallest of the lot:

I grabbed a dominant white wakin from FFPC in May 08 and named him Harley, as he is from Harleysville:

My beautiful midnight blue shubunkin, Bumpkin, jumped from my pond, so I “replaced” him with Franky, a mostly blue shub with a couple of barely noticeable reddish spots purchased from That Fish Place in May ‘08:

Another mostly blue shubunkin, Joey, joined the pond from Captain Nemo’s in July 2008. He is fast as lightning and named after Chelsea winger Joe Cole.

The final summer addition to the pond in 2008 was Newboy, a pretty blue dominate watonai spotted at Fins Feathers Paws and Claws in August.