can live in a bag
can be prizes from a carnival
can live in a fishbowl forever
easiest pet imaginable
have never managed to live over 52 hours at our house (yes, goldfish take 9 was a REAL fighter, breaking all previous records, and giving us the false hope that we actually might make it). But nope, we came home from church on Sunday and he was belly up.
So for Take 10 we pulled out all the stops. We even bought filtered water, the stuff WE don't even buy for ourselves because it's so ritzy.
And what do we get? 36 hours of awesomeness just to end with yet another goldfish's cold blood on our hands.
Honestly. My goldfish lived FOREVER in their fishbowl. Carter's goldfish in his classroom lived the whole year (well, almost) in a fish bowl. Yet they claim a goldfish needs to be in no SMALLER than a 10-gallon tank...um, excuse me? have you not seen the success rate of fishbowl gold fish? OK, not at OUR house per se, but really ... are you with me?
Aren't goldfish supposed to live longer than this in a normal fish bowl? Where did we go wrong??
So I guess the moral of the story is:
if you're a goldfish,
beware.
Maybe we'll move on to hamsters.
2 comments:
When we were looking into buying fish we were told that goldfish should not live in fishbowls but in fancy fishtanks. The only fish that can live well and long in a bowl, according to the person I spoke with at the pet store, are beta fish. We got two for Christmas and they're both still swimming!
I heard if you have a fish that died you need to really get that tank clean before introducing another fish. We have guppies in our fish bowl and they keep reproducing!
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