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... it is home to some goldfish(which never get much bigger than a foot prior to getting spirited away by egrets or green herons


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The catfish and the perch would likely need to be raised in a net cage until big enough to be safe from the birds.


They may well get too big to be eaten, but not too big to be possibly speared. Herons can have eyes bigger than their bellies.

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