So, the saga has ended, and luckily ended with a happy tilt.
We had an escape from our medium security turtle enclosure, but the fugitive was reacquired before it was too late.
While we were busy looking for him, and worrying that we might not find him, or that we would find him or more precisely his dried out shell, we kept hoping he would be found. Luckily he was, and he’s back in his now near maximum security enclosure.
When one of our friends, Byron, heard the story, he shared his woeful tale of losing and not finding his turtle until it was too late.
Didn’t bring a lot of hope.
His daughter, Ayumi, thought she would help us out be bringing us a couple of their baby gold fish to assist in getting us over the loss.
We found the turtle, and in fact we’re ahead now with 2 more fish 😉
We have several fairly large gold fish outside in our small pond in the garden, but we also have some smaller fish, 4 of them, in a large bowl that sits on the middle landing of the stairwell. Those 4 were the best candidates for getting new roommates, so that’s where they are.
The new fish spent a day or so getting acclimated, and now are swimming along and moving about just like the others, even at feeding time.
That’s good news! 😉
Here are a couple of pictures where maybe you can see them:
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- The guy on the left was the escapee.