Goldfish?
 

I have a goldfish called Django. Does anyone else have a goldfish?

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Not anymore... but I had one that lived for bloody years and years. We used to call his tank 'the cat telly'.

no
is it true using a bowl is cruel

Yes. Its a myth about their memory. They need stimulation, space and oxygen.

No. Used to have 2 when younger though, won them at a carnival so expected them to die quite early. Ended up living for about 8 years or so :S

We've had two for 9yrs.

I always found that their ballasts always used to go, so they'd end up lying on their sides on the bottom of the tank and then struggle around for a few days. It would be too painful to watch.

I rested the net on top of one of them for ages, trying to pin it to the bottom of the tank, so it couldn't move and would suffocate quickly. I left a towel over the bowl so I didn't have to watch and left it there for ages, then I went to check on it, move the net and it shot up and swam round for a wild 10 seconds and went back to struggling. That was the end of my fish keeping days.

Django used to have a brother but he ended up in the river. Django used to push him to the top of the tank to help him breathe but alas the 25l tank was not big enough.

We have a big aquarium with a few fish in now,at the moment we have one massive goldfish,3 little ones and a very big sucker fish,the sucker fish is years old.

Showing a side to you I hadn't much noticed before...

I had a molly who had a problem with its swim bladder and kept bobbing upside down and struggling. I got some stuff to put in the water, you had to isolate the affected fish and just add drops of this stuff. It sorted the problem right out.

I bet the fish was thinking "******ing hell mate, I only need a couple of drops and you're trying to pin me to the floor with a giant net".

I have 5 goldfish, 2 big ones and 3 smaller ones in a big corner tank

Have a fishtank in the shed but no water or fish, I am too scared to wake up one day and see one of them floating on the top, dead

When I was younger we had one and had all sorts of them, the siamese fighter was the best