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You know a trainer?!! Who? I’ve just been winging it and Gari has my number take the food run away, beat up the goldies like Fru Fru the bunny did with the field mice.[/QUOTE]
Coin “Phish Pharelli” and use this: http://www.fbas.co.uk/form.html. 
Well Ralph and Cooter could be imported fish, I didn’t remember to ask for their papers when they were taken from the .29 cent each tank at Wally world. I carefully released them (after letting the water sit for 24 hours) and gave them some fish food, and man could those two swim, they couldn’t believe that they were being abused in my 100 gallon tank…they swam and swam and dove and came up to the top and ate their little goldfish pellets.
Funny they have managed to elude the cats, the horses, and the birds and steadily grew. They must be those mustangs of the fish world, tough and hardy and thankful like rescues normally are to have food, water and a huge paddock to swim in.
I guess I am a bad purchaser as I forgot also to ask for a PPE before getting these two hardy souls…they joined the other two hardy souls, Edgar and Simon and now one has to go to a new paddock…can’t have the paddock overgrazed. So that means another trip to Wally World and this time I will remember to check for brands, ask for papers, and a PPE. Wonder what the guy at Wally world will do? Maybe he is the Celitia of fishdom and will ask me to pay a huge adoption fee, and sign a 30 page contract? I don’t know if I can do that, after all, these are .29 cent fish that live in the horse tank…think I should?
Sweet sandal wearing jebuz…they actually do show fish. :eek: 
:o
Well that has to be the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
I’m betting Red Lobster isn’t one of the show sponsors.
Msityblue I think Red Lobster only shows lobsters…I haven’t seen any fish in their tanks - lol…
(gosh Peta would have a field day…)
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I’m betting Red Lobster isn’t one of the show sponsors.[/QUOTE]
Nah - they just buy the slow learners. :winkgrin::lol:
This thread is hilarious! :lol: I’ve never been at a barn that kept fish in the water troughs but I’ve heard about it. Are goldfish the only chordates one would put in a water trough?
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Sweet sandal wearing jebuz…they actually do show fish. :eek: :o
Well that has to be the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
I’m betting Red Lobster isn’t one of the show sponsors.[/QUOTE]
They do show fish. I was suppose to go to a Koi show with my neighbor who also has Koi, but couldn’t make it. You would not believe the prices of some of these fish. Really, it’s mind boggling. People pay thousands for Koi. I inherited my Koi when the guy I bought my house from couldn’t find a way to transport them back east. He first tried to charge me $5,000 for them. When I said “No thanks” he decided to just leave them. They are awesome in that they’re a lot of fun to watch. But I’d never be interested in showing them.
5 they are addicting aren’t they? I fret and worry over them as much as I do my kids or horse. :lol:
Hey, I thought about breeding bettas (Siamese fighting fish.) Then I thought of what I would do with all those fry and what if I couldn’t find a way to get rid of them. Figure at least half the hatch would be males, meaning a couple hundred little one-gals…water changes every day…I’ll pass.
And, I confess, I adopted a rescue betta. His name was Paprika and he’d been rehabbed from an infected wound. He was overnighted to me in a cooler in a bag of water with a small flashlight for light. No joke, true story. I’ve also rehabbed bettas rescued from Wally World, and I had a goldfish named One-Eyed Jack who came out of the comet tank at Wally World with, you guessed it, one eye (congenital defect.) I saw him there four weeks in a row and finally said screw it and bought him.
Now I’m really resisting the idea of scrubbing out the old 28g and going to get a goldfish. I do not need a fish. But I have an empty tank…
I knew Koi are expensive…at the first real estate office I worked in I was friends with another agent named Joan. Hilarious woman, sweet as heck and definitely a high society gal. At one point she decided to re-do the landscaping in her yard and insisted a koi viewing pond was added with bridge and waterfall and all the bells and whistles. She wanted it on the shallow side so the koi couldn’t stay on the bottom out of site.
She then paid $500 per koi to get certain sizes and colors. I lived two streets over from her and she called me one night in tears at 9 pm. I couldn’t get the story straight…only something about murderous wildlife. (she knew I worked with wildlife) So I drove over fast assuming there was a Sasquatch trying to get into her house…she tearily pointed out of her kitchen window to the lit up koi pond…there were racoons out there happily fishing and munching away on a few thousand dollars worth of koi sushi! :lol: :eek: :no:
[QUOTE=MistyBlue;4060870]
Sweet sandal wearing jebuz…they actually do show fish. :eek: :o[/QUOTE]And judge them for a “serene attitude”. :winkgrin:
That’s the part that cracked me up. Can’t say I’ve ever contemplated the temperment of a fish… aside from maybe Jaws.
This thread is…something!:lol::lol:
(I feel it necessary to make a PSA to point out that I never actually beat my fish. I actually rescued them from the cats several times. My parents had friends who owned fish stores. I used to get to go thru the store and feed all of them when I was little. It was fun. Fish deserve love. Never date a man who would beat his fish. Just leave him. There are resources to help you. End PSA. “The more you know.” And…shooting star.)
:winkgrin::lol:
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5 they are addicting aren’t they? :lol:[/QUOTE]
Yeah. That 12 cent feeder fish is like the first free dose of heroine the drug pusher gives you 
I am not a big fan of fish (unless I’m going fishing. Am I weird or what) and I personally would be a bit skeeved out having them in the water trough… Just because they are… fish. I have never had a trough big enough to sustain fish, and I am generally anal retentive and dump and scrub buckets daily.
They are up to 12 cents now? Wow.
Your post reminded me of a friend 20 years ago whose husband kept a tank of piranhas. The piranhas ate feeders. One little feeder managed to survive amidst all those Jaws for a week- they decided he was pretty special, fished him out, gave him his own aquarium. Sucker lived for 10 or more years I think!
So I drove over fast assuming there was a Sasquatch trying to get into her house…she tearily pointed out of her kitchen window to the lit up koi pond…there were racoons out there happily fishing and munching away on a few thousand dollars worth of koi sushi!
OMG if that happened to me, I would have to lay in a dark room and mourn. I would so miss Sherbet, Mr. Puff Puff, Halloween, Yin, Yang, Silver, Nemo and Jaws. :lol:
For Pete’s Sake, all I am trying to say is: if you are going to have fish in your horse tank don’t use the fish for a reason not to clean your tank. I just want to see clean water tanks for horses.
I just moved my horses home and just discovered I have very large catfish in the ponds, I will be willing to catch the catfish, sell them, and ship anywhere if the price is right.
I will see if my horses drink their fresh water or if they drink from the ponds.
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I bought Gari Baldy** as a weanling…[/QUOTE]You know, when I first read this post and didn’t see the asterisk describing Gari Baldy at the end, I assumed that he was a Grand Champion show fish and he got the ** at the end of his name like the Arabs, you know, like Russian Roulette**++. I am LMAO here. So from now on, my cistern Koi, with the oh-so-original name of “Goldy”, will heretofore be referred to as Goldy bint Cistern**++ :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Mr. Puff Puff[/QUOTE]Oh and :lol: at “Mr. Puff Puff”. Awesome name.
When my parents built their house, my dad put in his version of a water feature. It involved gesturing to the guy on the bulldozer who was grading the driveway, whereupon said bulldozer appeared right next to the freshly poured patio and dug a GIANT hole. It is the appropriate kidney shape, it’s just 6ft deep. :lol: After much research, we trekked off to a koi breeding farm in the middle of nowhere (I kept hearing the “Deliverance” music in my head) and stared at various fish for which we were quoted astronomical prices. We came home with the ones who were $12/head. Good thing too, b/c they were fine the first few years, but then the herons found our sushi bar and we’re down to about 4 from what was at one point a school of twenty something. :no: Did that make us fish hoarders? They were breeding–we should have been on FuglyFishofTheDay! Until this thread I never knew my parents were BYBs! :eek:
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Goldy bint Cistern**++ :lol: :lol: :lol:[/QUOTE]
I Like it!!! Has a ring to it.
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