I think we are making real headway with the fish. There is now a small clear hose running into the tank and terminating under the pirate ship. This line feeds the air from the little air pump into the tank. We now have a steady stream of bubbles coming from the sunken ship.

Can fish be happy? Instead of spending most of their time ( I don't think time matters to fish ) at the surface of the tank sucking air, all the fish now just lazily swim around like fish are supposed to do. Pale Rider, one of the drifters no longer swims in circles at high speed. None of the fish are swimming as if " drunk " anymore. At this time it appears that we've found our solution. Of course, it cost us 11 fish to get to this point. Leaving 8 remaining.

Well I spent my morning looking over Craig's list, nothing exciting or affordable. Hopefully a positive advantage of the high price of gas will be the gas pigs will be sold really cheap.