The (continuing) Saga of Ariel the (Zuni) Pond Fish!

Sorry about my hasty (i.e. enthusiastic, happy!) post earlier about a mere fish. I actually sent it BY MISTAKE to the Blog... I did notify Tristan of the mishap (and for him to delete the post!).... But I think that I should at least correct typos in the meantime, as follows:

"Ariel The Fish seems to alive and well. She/he was seen 
frolicking at the top of the pond at feeding time
A small step for the "Fish Whisperer" (as I am sometimes called!), a Giant Step for Sustenance of 
Life when it wishes to be sustained." 

Ariel had been pulled out of the pond in February and placed into a "Hospital Tank"  (as the expression goes among pond/aquarium people) in our kitchen in Zuni, following observation that the fish was evidently not very comfortable in the cold winter pond water. I since determined that Ariel is afflicted with a common ailment among such fish - swim bladder malfunction - which manifests itself primarily in the fact that the affected fish has trouble swimming stably and at at different water levels. BUT that ailment is often accompanied with bacterial infectious conditions, affecting especially vital organs. So Ariel was treated primarily with tetracycline medication, for a sustained period of weeks before being finally released to the pond, as the water became warmer... Upon my departure to China; with instruction "not to resuscitate" (i.e. not bring back to the inside Hospital Tank!) if the fish were to drop again to the bottom of the pond and succumb to its possibly continuing unhealthy condition.

I am digressing here.... But the TADALA boys are somewhat aware of this situation... And its unfolding WAS tied to the China trip after all!

- Posted by Granpa Roger in Zuni, NM