FORGET THE GOLDFISH!!!!!!!!!

[Sonic_Boom]

[QUOTE=MistyBlue;4063017]
LOL…here in CT that’c across the state. :winkgrin: Unless you’re trying to travel on Rte 84 through Hartford during rush hour…then that’s 90 minutes for 2 miles. :lol:
Shad roe isn’t as easy to find as it used to be. Not as many people seem to enjoy it anymore, my husband loves it and I enjoy it too. But Westbrook does carry it…if they don’t have it in they’ll contact you when they do get it in. You can pick up or have it delivered. Oddly enough…Westbrook Lobster House (both a restaurant and a fish seller) isn’t in Westbrook but right near the town line on the Clinton side. Fantastic fresh steamers there too. Mmmmm, now I’m hungry.[/QUOTE]

Did you HAVE to mention Westbrook? And steamers? I grew up in CT, and when I go home to visit, you bet we go there. But hello, WHY does no one in MD understand the concept of steamers?! With broth and butter and…oooh…boy…:winkgrin: Between the lack of good steamers and the horrendous pizza, I eat like…well, like a goldfish when I go home.

Seriously, though. Whatch your feeder goldfishies, folks! I had a few in a 10g tank not knowing any better when I was a kid. 3 survived and grew to be HUGE. I had to get them bigger and bigger tanks. When I would clean their water, they would swim upside-down like they were dying. When they were hungry, they would swim up and press their big ol’ fishy-eyeballs against the glass and beg. Friends would not sleep over due to being “creeped out” by my fishies! When I graduated HS, they were 6 years old and I gave them to a guy with a pond…they finally went to fishy heaven 4 years ago…whoa.

I find the idea of fish in the troughs kinda charming, until I remember my feeders, and wonder what on EARTH my terribly spooky horse would do if an eyeball emerged from the deep to stare up at him, hoping he transported some sort of yummies. Whoa. That would be an ugly scene.

ETA: Also, please think of your horses. I don’t know about yours, but ours at the farm LOVE trough-cleaning days. My own gelding’s field takes the cake…they gather round and watch with much anticipation, splashing in puddles of dumped water, snuffling in mud created by said dumped water, and then acting like horribly dehydrated ponies when the water is re-filling, all slurping every last bit. It does not matter how far away they are when trough-cleaning begins, they migrate over for the big event. Would you want to deprive your horses of this??

[Foxtrot_s]

A dose of potassium permanganate will kill (fish) parasites, but then that stuff is hard to come by these days as it is an ingredient in making bombs. Used to be used to disinfect vegetables and salads in my youth.

[Beethoven]

WOW I have heard it all now! Who knew a goldfish could be abused??:lol::lol:

Off to bed, and plotting a plan to save all the abused goldfish out there. Maybe I can start a thread on COTH about all the abused goldfish and have pictures of each and people can adopt them. :lol:

O and I have never experinced GF in a water tank so I have no opinion but horses always seem to like the gross algae water outside over their clean water inside.:yes:

[CarrieK]

[QUOTE=MistyBlue;4060031]
People show fish?[/QUOTE]

Under saddle? Cause if there’s a rule that your butt (meaning my butt, of course) shouldn’t be bigger than your horse’s (meaning my horse’s, of course)…well, wow, is all I’m saying.

[tabula_rashah]

Okay, so if I was going to join the International League of Gold Fish Abusers,
just how many gold fish should I put in a 150 gallon prison?

[JSwan]

[QUOTE=tabula rashah;4064137]
Okay, so if I was going to join the International League of Gold Fish Abusers,
just how many gold fish should I put in a 150 gallon prison?[/QUOTE]

Each goldfish requires enough room to stand, turn around, and lie down. They need to be able to see other fish - I mean sea kittens.

They also require access to cable tv, though it is permissible to block porno channels or violent TV programs.

You need to give them a weight room and library, and access to clergy and an area to worship.

You cannot give them anything sharp or they may turn on each other or attack your horses.

You must allow PETA employees and volunteers to conduct unannounced inspections of your troughs, but don’t be surprised if they remove their clothes, and run around naked. They may also bring a TV news crew so for God’s sake, wear nice clothes and have your hair done. Take the blindfolds off your horses, remove the torture devices from your horse’s hooves (shoes), and knock the mud off them.

[tabula_rashah]

[QUOTE=JSwan;4064212]
Each goldfish requires enough room to stand, turn around, and lie down. They need to be able to see other fish - I mean sea kittens.

They also require access to cable tv, though it is permissible to block porno channels or violent TV programs.

You need to give them a weight room and library, and access to clergy and an area to worship.

You cannot give them anything sharp or they may turn on each other or attack your horses.

You must allow PETA employees and volunteers to conduct unannounced inspections of your troughs, but don’t be surprised if they remove their clothes, and run around naked. They may also bring a TV news crew so for God’s sake, wear nice clothes and have your hair done. Take the blindfolds off your horses, remove the torture devices from your horse’s hooves (shoes), and knock the mud off them.;)[/QUOTE]

LMAO!!:lol:

But seriously though, this thread has got me thinking that I would like to try some fish in my tanks- I was thinking 2 or 3 in each one???

[Vandy]

Another question: how, exactly, do you deworm a fish? I tried using a tube of strongid, but I couldn’t get him to open his mouth wide enough. Do they make twitches for Koi? My horse twitch seems like it’s a little big. Can they be crosstied? I tried snubbing mine to a post, but he was too slippery.

[RNB]

@Vandy;4064422

Another question: how, exactly, do you deworm a fish? I tried using a tube of strongid, but I couldn’t get him to open his mouth wide enough. Do they make twitches for Koi? My horse twitch seems like it’s a little big. Can they be crosstied? I tried snubbing mine to a post, but he was too slippery.

I believe the best way is to get the dewormer in to the mosquito larva first. Then just sit back and wait for the little swimmers to devour lunch.

[Beverley]

BTW (she said, hating to disrupt a great thread with a PSA), I hope folks are aware of the availability of little bricks for water tanks that prevent mosquito larvae from maturing? These little thingies contain an bacteria that controls the larvae while not harming horses (or fish, though of course you are then depriving certain fish of tasty snacks:cool:)

They’ve been available here in Utah for several years- originally distributed by the county extension agents (and possibly they still do, and possibly still free of charge!), but by now I think they are more generally available and feed and hardware stores and such. Each brick lasts a month in the ‘typical’ paddock water tank.

OK, PSA over, back to the koi toys…

[511]

[QUOTE=Vandy;4064422]
but I couldn’t get him to open his mouth wide enough. Do they make twitches for Koi? [/QUOTE]
Never used a twichI grab his little wiskers and shove whatever he has to take while he has that wide eyed open mouthed look of shock.

[Vandy]

[QUOTE=5;4064530]
Never used a twichI grab his little wiskers and shove whatever he has to take while he has that wide eyed open mouthed look of shock.[/QUOTE]
Seriously? Because if this is true, I really wanna come over and watch! :lol:

[511]

No, not true. He is a koi and they eat ‘anything’ all I have to do is drop it in the water .

For the initial parasite infection you use a hospital tank (could be a clean bucket for fish only and medicate the water).

I’m don’t think many parasite make the jump from fish to horses.

Are there any biologists here who can tell us if living water established with enzymes that break down waste like a real stream, lake, pond or tank one it goes through it’s nitrification cycle if that water is better for the horses gut flora than very clean sterile bucket water?

[poltroon]

[QUOTE=tabula rashah;4064137]
Okay, so if I was going to join the International League of Gold Fish Abusers,
just how many gold fish should I put in a 150 gallon prison?[/QUOTE]

I’d try 3.

[Equibrit]

[QUOTE=Vandy;4064422]
Another question: how, exactly, do you deworm a fish? I tried using a tube of strongid, but I couldn’t get him to open his mouth wide enough. Do they make twitches for Koi? My horse twitch seems like it’s a little big. Can they be crosstied? I tried snubbing mine to a post, but he was too slippery.[/QUOTE]

Rectal.

[Frank_B]

…and coming next season to Animal Planet: THE FISH WHISPERER

[Equibrit]

…who markets his patented plankton stick in a choice of attractive metalic colours for only $99.95

[MistyBlue]

Okay, this thread is making me crabby and giving me a haddock.
Porpoisely turning a decent information thread into a fish abuse thread is really jumping the shark.
If y’all wanna flounder around for the halibut, then go ahead but Cod dammit stop making bassholes out of yourselves!

[Vandy]

[QUOTE=MistyBlue;4065479]
Okay, this thread is making me crabby and giving me a haddock.
Porpoisely turning a decent information thread into a fish abuse thread is really jumping the shark.
If y’all wanna flounder around for the halibut, then go ahead but Cod dammit stop making bassholes out of yourselves![/QUOTE]

Well, bless your sole. Hey, I’m just perched here minding my own bluefish. No need to be flexing your verbal mussels and treating us roughy or crappie just because you have a haddock. Just clam up already!

[MistyBlue]

LMAO Vandy! Touche…
now be nice or I’ll come up with a new way to use Sperm Whale and Snapper. :winkgrin: :lol: