Excitement tonight!

Yesterday we gave the goldfish some broccoli for the first time in ages. In the past, I've just thrown a stalk of cooked broccoli in there, and they ate the leaves, leaving the stalk.

But now they're bigger, and their mouths are bigger, and they're as greedy as ever. Apparently Snowy tried to eat a big chunk of stalk and it got stuck in her mouth.

We noticed it last night, but she seemed to be breathing, so we just let things go to see if they worked out. We noticed tonight that they hadn't worked out, and she was starting to just hang out on the bottom of the tank.

She got pretty animated again when I tried to snag her with the net, but eventually I got her out of the water. I was able to use tweezers and a toothpick to remove two sizable chunks of broccoli from her mouth.

She's back in the tank, opening and closing her mouth again. She didn't seem as johnny on the spot to go grab the food we put in, so her mouth may be a little sore, but she did eat some.

Hopefully she'll recover fully.

2016-12-06T19:49Z[GMT]