PaulLB
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This is a fishy tale, but I promise you 100% true.
My wife came back from a few days in London celebrating Chinese New Year with her girlfriends bearing a large box of fresh fish from the fishmonger in Greenford.
There was a mixture of Seabass (for me) and Crucian carp (for her) packed in ice from the fish counter in the store, 10 of each so 20 fish in total.
Next photo was taken by my wife in the shop shortly before she bought the fish.
It was late Friday when she got home so we put the box in the refrigerator and resolved to gut and prep them the next day.
We went about our business most of Saturday and only in the evening did my wife set about preparing the fish; some to eat that night and the rest for the freezer.
With the seabass all done, halfway through washing the Crucian Carp and before gutting them, she noticed one of the fish twitching and she calls me over in amazement.
Initially we figured it must be some kind of weird chemical reaction, but then I noticed its gills moving, just once. We grabbed a bowl and popped the fish in some tap water. It was lying on its side and listing heavily to starboard, but those gills were definitely going.
I was in two minds about putting the poor devil out of its presumed misery, but I thought let’s give the fellow a chance.
Remarkably by the next day he had made a full recovery and is now living in our bath:
Fortunately we have a separate shower, which is just as well, but this is clearly not an arrangement that can persist indefinitely, so “Lazarus”, as he is now known, will need to be rehoused; if for no other reason than my wife now pays this fish more attention than she does me - and you can see how quickly things can change round here - he was dinner 24 hours previously, and I’ve been sleeping with one eye open ever since.
In all seriousness. I don’t have the space for an aquarium large enough or a suitable pond for Lazarus, so if there is anybody out there who would like to give “Lazarus the wonder fish” a home, where I think he truly deserves to live out a long life, then please let me know!
We are based in a Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
My wife came back from a few days in London celebrating Chinese New Year with her girlfriends bearing a large box of fresh fish from the fishmonger in Greenford.
There was a mixture of Seabass (for me) and Crucian carp (for her) packed in ice from the fish counter in the store, 10 of each so 20 fish in total.
Next photo was taken by my wife in the shop shortly before she bought the fish.
It was late Friday when she got home so we put the box in the refrigerator and resolved to gut and prep them the next day.
We went about our business most of Saturday and only in the evening did my wife set about preparing the fish; some to eat that night and the rest for the freezer.
With the seabass all done, halfway through washing the Crucian Carp and before gutting them, she noticed one of the fish twitching and she calls me over in amazement.
Initially we figured it must be some kind of weird chemical reaction, but then I noticed its gills moving, just once. We grabbed a bowl and popped the fish in some tap water. It was lying on its side and listing heavily to starboard, but those gills were definitely going.
I was in two minds about putting the poor devil out of its presumed misery, but I thought let’s give the fellow a chance.
Remarkably by the next day he had made a full recovery and is now living in our bath:
Fortunately we have a separate shower, which is just as well, but this is clearly not an arrangement that can persist indefinitely, so “Lazarus”, as he is now known, will need to be rehoused; if for no other reason than my wife now pays this fish more attention than she does me - and you can see how quickly things can change round here - he was dinner 24 hours previously, and I’ve been sleeping with one eye open ever since.
In all seriousness. I don’t have the space for an aquarium large enough or a suitable pond for Lazarus, so if there is anybody out there who would like to give “Lazarus the wonder fish” a home, where I think he truly deserves to live out a long life, then please let me know!
We are based in a Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.