Gila Seminuda: The Virgin River Adventure May. 2014. | Page 5

This joy was short lived though. The young River Chubs start to notice the plankton scurrying around quickly.

"What's going on?" asked Jerm.

"Im not sure. But I'm pretty sure that what ever it is, isn't good." replied Django.

Django finally spots what is causing the zooplankton to panic even more. It was the Virgin Chub's most common competitors, the Red Shiner. There was a giant school of them headed straight towards them. Now the two friends had to hurry to fufill their appetite.

This isn't the first time that Django and Jerm have run into this problem. The Red Shiner is a highly populated species of fish that shares the Virgin Chub's habitat. They are partly responsible for the decrease in population that Django has