Ollie and Quentin by Piers Baker for January 12, 2022

General Maximus can hold his breath how much longer?

The ghost of fish bowls past?

And you can name the ghost “Fish Sticks”!

Wonderful! My wife and I kept large numbers of fish for many years but one type, called the Kuhli Loach, was unique. These crazy little guys looked like miniature brown and gold striped snakes about two or three inches long. They loved to hide and pop out. The last tank we had was self-contained with the pump, filter, and heater all together behind a kind of screen on one end of the tank. It was only ten gallons so we just had a few fish and two were Kuhli Loaches. After a week or so they disappeared, we figured somewhere behind the screen. We had that tank for eight or nine years and finally we drained it and went to put it away. We caught all the fish (we could see) and started taking the water out. As we did this out came the loaches — eight of them — from inside the pump area. Bought two, got back eight. We had that type of fish for decades and never had any that reproduced. We must have lucked out have gotten a mated pair and they raised a nice family, though we never saw any of them after the first week. Like little ghosts.