New friday, new fish. Goldfish! Piggybacking off my last post where I had some advice, I want to talk about goldfish and how mistreated they are.
Again, these fish need space! Please give it to them. The minimum I’ve seen recommended for even small “fancy goldfish,” is 25 gallons. With 10 more gallons for each goldfish you add. Goldfish can live for 15+ years, yet so many people think theyre ahort lived fish and that probably has a lot to do with people putting them in tiny tanks!
Speaking of misinformation about goldfish, another one that upsets me is the all too common “memory of a goldfish” line. Goldfish can remember things for months, can learn to navigate puzzles/mazes, and can not only recognize and remember other goldfish but their owners too!
Goldfish are lovely pets please treat them with the respect and love they deserve!
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I had a rock pond in my house with water lilies and a small cypress tree I got at Home Depot. I threw six “feeder” goldfish in it for mosquito control. By the time I sold the house a decade later, they had multiplied to dozens with the largest being close to a foot long.
I pumped the bottom of the pond twice a year and donated the sludge (~5 five gallon home depot buckets worth every time) to a local urban farm for underpriviledged kids. That stuff was magic for crops. If you lived in Austin from 2005-2015, it is prossible that you ate organic produced fueled by shit from my Pet Smart feeder goldfish family.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Just adding into the “things we do wrong because goldfish”, and really a lot of fish that are casually kept, FEEDING SCHEDULES AND PORTION SIZES!
Fish don’t need that much food in one sitting. Even if you’re growing/bulking something like goldfish, it’s 3-7 SMALL portions per day. Extra food just floats to the bottom of the tank, leaving it murky and releasing things into the water. This hurts the tank.
(I know you’ve probably covered this a thousand times, but it can never be repeated enough, in my opinion. Feeding is up there with tank sizes on things people aren’t given enough information on when buying a pet fish)
I’ve always been a fan!
Goldfish can get stupidly big. They just suck tbh. I love fish and I’m a nano fish lover first and foremost, but there are soo many interesting big fish, there is no reason to help petco sell another goldfish.
