[HairOfTheDog]

Are you treating the water? Goldfish need aquarium salt and a ammonia/clorine treatment. Goldfish are also very dirty fish, so if your tank or bowl is small it will need to be changed very frequently. They also can't take changes in temperature of more than 4 degrees... must be very careful to put new water in that is the same temperature. And goldfish need live (phonetic-no idea how to spell it) annackerous grass or they get a bit constipated. Did you do those things?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Goodness, I never knew goldfish were so sensitive. I always thought they were a very hardy fish.

In the novel Lucifer's Hammer goldfish who had escaped into the wild after the destruction of human civilization grew big and fat... lots of food and no predators...

But that was just a science fiction novel, not serious literature...

[Corin Stormhands]

Are you treating the water? Goldfish need aquarium salt and a ammonia/clorine treatment.

You mean I can't just stick 'em in a bowl and run some tap water over 'em?

I do know better than that. I tread the water with the ammonia/clorine stuff. But I didn't know about aquarium salt or the grass stuff. My mistake with the first four was that I was adding water, but not changing it. My assumption was that if it looked clear, it was. But I don't understand the one from yesterday. Maybe he was sick anyway?

Looks like I'll be heading back to PetsMart for some salt and grass...