Well, we found Red Stripe dead today, under the lily pad. Too bad, isn't it? We can't figure out why she died, since Robert sees no sign of any disease. Now we have left seven fish. There's Blackie. He's big, like a submarine. He shoulders away the other fish when he sees something to eat. There's the triplets, all gold, hard to tell apart. There's White Head, Red Spot, and Minnie the Minnow. We discovered mosquito larvae in the back pond where we removed all our fish. Now it's empty and breeding these vile, wiggly, little creatures. However, Robert got the little green net and is catching them---and feeding them to the fish in the pot pond. Wow, they love these things. Kind of labor-intensive, though, catching the larvae and handfeeding them to the fish. Wow, we got the fish originally just for this purpose, and now they live in different ponds.
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