If you have a goldfish pond in the neighborhood maybe you can help solve a riddle. How do goldfish get into a pond that only has water when it rains and has no real connection to any other water? We dug a "pond" to prevent runoff water from the neighborhood from flooding our fruit trees. It's in the back corner of the yard and only has water when there is enough rain to fill the drainage ditches. Then it dries up and is just a indentation in the ground until the next heavy rain. A few weeks ago we saw dozens of goldfish, from very small to around 3 inches, floating dead in a very small amount of water that had not quite evaporated. After it dried completely my son found this poor little guy. Guess all the rest had broken down. But how did they get there? I'm really curious about this and would certainly not want to kill off any more goldfish. If I knew they were there, before they floated belly up, I would have gotten a net and tried to rescue them.
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