So is he eating now ? Wonder if he can make a complete comeback ?

I once had a little freshwater eel of some kind.... don't remember the exact species now, but he was kind of plain and boring, and hid all the time. Needless to say, by the time I decided to take that tank down, I had not seen it in so long, I forgot all about it.
So several months later, I decide to set up another tank using the gravel and rocks that I had used months earlier in the tank with the eel. I fill the tank with water, and out comes this slithering eel that I had not seen in several months before I took down the other tank....... let alone the several months the gravel set in a 5 gallon bucket in the closet ! That dude survived for at least 3 months in nothing more than wet gravel !!! Amazing........

Oh, and one more for you. Speaking of Goldfish, I used to catch a bunch of wildstrain Goldfish (Cyprinnis Cyprinnis...... this is what double-tailed, bubble-eyed, multi-colored, domesticated Goldfish were originally bred from) out at Grizzly Island while fishing with night crawlers for Stripers. Most people mistakenly identify them as common Carp (Cyprinnis Carpio...... this is what Koi were originally bred from). But they are in fact a seperate species. Clear Lk. has a ton of them too. Anyway, many of these ran about 5 to 6 lbs. But once I caught one which weighed 10.2 lbs !!! I hooked it in the mouth, on a Rattletrap too ! (probably snagged there by chance though) How's that for a Goldfish, huh ? Catch and Release a trophy Goldfish :-)

Jumpin' Cichlosoma Symphysodon !!! :-) How do I remember this stuff, when I couldn't even tell you what I had for breakfast ? :-)

Peace,
Fish