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Candy gram.[/QUOTE]Candy Gram, my a**. Get out of here before I call the proper authorities. You’re the shark and you know it.
Wait! I’m only a dolphin, ma’am!
Dang! I had an arowana (very briefly) in college. Saved up for the sucker for months. He killed himself – jumped & hit his little fishy head on the tank cover.
Bummer.
This thread and the SNAP thread are over the top funny!
Candygram!
I’ve heard they are circumcised WITH snaps…
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yes thats a 58k fish at the bottom. prices ranging from 200ish dollars to tens of thousands.
http://www.arowana.co.uk/arowana-shop-productlist.php?category=arowana[/QUOTE]
You won’t get that kind of money for Asian arowana in the USA unless you sold it on the black market. It’s illegal to have them here.
Eileen
His color combo would make a really pretty dress for someone with the right coloring.
Only if you do it when they’re older.
Oh, and BTW? You owe me a new monitor. I just drenched mine in cappucino. :lol:
Wasn’t there a band??
Wasn’t there a band called “Hoot and the Goldfish”?
Oh, no, wait that was “Hootie and the Blowfish”… never mind. :winkgrin:
Better snaps than Chaps… I guess they’d have to be custom made…cost a fortune.
:eek:
What, some kind of one legged chap with a little itty bitty belt buckle?
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A couple grand for a fine Koi is nnoooooothin! Behold 80k Arowana!!!
http://www.myfishtank.net/fish-news/80000-arowana-aquarium-fish/
I looked into breeding Arowanas because they sell for as much as nice Warmbloods, no Im not joking. You would NOT want to put them in water trough and most normal fish tanks can’t hold them. They eat meat, will jump to grab live pray and grow to enormous sizes. Also super cool colors. Breeder, DNA and microchip their fish to prove ID. Yes thats right microchipped fish.
yes thats a 58k fish at the bottom. prices ranging from 200ish dollars to tens of thousands.
http://www.arowana.co.uk/arowana-shop-productlist.php?category=arowana[/QUOTE]
OMG! Did you read the article, where it says that the 80,000.00 “show fish” has a conformational defect, because his right eye is starting to look down, as a result of feeding habits, and that people are now doing VETERINARY COSMETIC SURGERY ON FISH!!!
Okay, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find this thread very sad. Believe it or not, fish ARE living, breathing creatures who actually DO deserve proper living conditions. Yet people are making jokes about abuse and making flippant remarks about their past fish. Granted, this is a common way to think about fish, because they’re “only fish,” but personally, that needs to change. If you buy a living creature, it’s your responsibility to take care of it properly. If anything, if you have fish in horse troughs, get some water testing supplies. Make sure Ammonia and Nitrite levels never raise above 0ppm, and you’ll have to change out some of the water if Nitrate is over 120ppm. If your fish requires a certain temperature, for God’s sake, just go buy a heater or a cooler. Just because a fish is still living and seems happy, doesn’t mean it’s thriving. Same as putting horses in cramped, filthy stalls 24/7 or dogs on chains won’t necessarily kill them, but they’re certainly not thriving.
I won’t tell you what to do with your fish, but seriously, this thread is really bumming me out. Fish still deserve some respect, regardless of what they cost or how “stupid” and “lack of personality” they are. Nothing will ever change for them if this attitude continues to exist.
I’ve tried various fish in our water tubs but it never works.
My Morgan hunts and eats them. :eek:
Well for my bridal shower my girlfriend got some of those comet or whatever feeder fish for center pieces on the tables. So when the shower was over, I took them home and put them in my water trough. There were 4 but the smallest one died. I had those 3 for over 3 years. We scoop them up and drain the tub and scrub it and put them back in and they are HUGE.
Unfortunately, one of them died earlier this year but the other 2 are going strong. They really like to eat the bug larvae and they pick at the algae but we keep the algae pretty cleaned up.
BTW I have 3 troughs (75g each) and there is only one with fish in it and it is my cleanest trough.
I also have a 29g aquarium in my house and I have to spend more time cleaning it and all. Of course I have way more fish and its smaller.
It seems as though those feeder fish are hardier than the actual like “gold fish” the ones that get all fat and have big fins. I know those do make a big mess. I dunno.
Oh and I have a decent sized pond on my property with bass, bream, and tilapia and God knows what else (frogs, turtles, snakes, etc) and the horses not only drink from it sometimes but they SWIM in it! lol
Most posters here are just kidding around and feeling goofy. I doubt any of them are consciously being cruel to their fish. Feeder fish are cheap and not so strong and healty at the best of times. We have koi and even with the best of care they go kaput and goldfish have an amazing ability to survive in the most scungy conditions. Personally I enjoy these threads for their silliness. Sorry.
I bought a bunch of the 25 cent goldfish right before I left Colorado in 2005. I have 15 goldfish who are all originals from that batch (ok wait, I think they mated at some point cuz I did have 5 tiny fish all of a sudden once haha).
They go in our big stock tank (10’ across…don’t know how many gallons). I haven’t fed them in maybe 6 months. The same fish have been in there for FOUR YEARS. Sure, I’ve had a couple die here and there and I feel AWFUL, but all animals die at some point.
These fish have been transferred from one house to another 3 times now, transferred from tank to tank about 6 times here at this house…I just dump them in the fresh water…never an issue with acclimating.
My horses have a huge “pond” in their corral right now due to rain every evening for the last year (exageration but close HAHA) and its disgusting and stagnant. They have a few water troughs to choose from and they always choose the “pond”…ewww, but its their choice.
I don’t think I’ve EVER cleaned my stock tank either…its ran over when I’ve forgot the water was on twice maybe…but thats it. My fish are happy lil fellers and when I DO feed them, they’ll come to the top and eat out of your hands.
Oh yeah, and they’re big now too…largest is about 4"…they were all the size of silver dollars when I bought them. AND they survive the 0 degree winters too…they just huddle under the 6" of ice and sit on the tank heater haha
Well I have goldfish, one is a regular goldfish and the other is the type that has the big fat middle and huge fins. Both started out at about 1 inch and now the regular size gold fish is 4" long and the other is slightly less but fat as a tick. They live in an outdoor 50 gallon tank which I cleaned earlier this spring and then put them back in. Tank stays rather clean, I feed them on occasion and they are doing very well.
I do aerate the water daily by using the hose and replace 1/4 of the water by allowing the tank to overflow once a week. Seems to work well and these fish seem to be thriving. I’ve had them two years now and through last winter I really worried, but they hung down in the bottom of the tank without a problem. Summer I have shade for them so they won’t roast and add water daily to the tank.
They keep all the bugs out of the tank and the horses never bother them. They will bother the horses occassionally by darting up to grab a whisker and the horse looks surprised when that happens - lol…love my little fishes! Oh and mine don’t wear snaps but I did think of spaying and neutering but can’t tell which is a boy and which is a girl or even if I have one of each. I would let them wear overalls though, but it is hard getting the kind with flaps and snaps in the back for bathroom purposes.
It’s not you. I also find this thread very sad but I’ve also learned over years of raising and breeding rainbowfish and running forums that people are not going to change.
. . .Just because a fish is still living and seems happy, doesn’t mean it’s thriving. Same as putting horses in cramped, filthy stalls 24/7 or dogs on chains won’t necessarily kill them, but they’re certainly not thriving… . .
They don’t know what “thriving” means or how it pertains to the fish they have. They don’t realize that a comet or “feeder” goldfish that is only 4" after X number of year(s) is stunted. Those fish should be close to 12" by a year old. They grow fast and furious when they are kept properly. They also don’t realize that goldfish can live close to 20 years when kept properly. They just don’t realize these things.
Personally I think that 120ppm nitrate is way over what I would keep anything in. I shoot for 40ppm, but that’s just changing by nitrate, which isn’t the best way to do this. DOCs are not measurable, so I go for weekly half changes and why I would never keep fish – especially goldies and plecos – in a trough.
My 2 cents
Eileen
I think this thread is pretty witty.
So here is a question, FEEDER fish, isn’t that what other fish eat? So perhaps living in a huge ‘aquarium’ is better than no life?
I think little grass skirts would be easier than coveralls. No snaps needed:yes:
