Why do goldfish die?

United Press International ^ | 2/17/2003 | Alex Cukan

[Willie Green]

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[JRandomFreeper]

Why do goldfish die?

The bass eat them. Then, we eat the bass.

/john

[supercat]

Goldfish in Blenders Spark Outrage

I was thinking someone should do a sequel; a piece which looks identical but in which the blenders are rewired so that the start button, rather than turning on the blender, will give a significant but harmless shock to anyone who pushes it.

Think that would be a good piece of performance art?

[LibKill]

Why do goldfish die?

It's their nature.

[yooper]

Well, my goldfish used to die because they had the misfortune of being placed in a tank with three Piranha.

[Tench_Coxe]

An easier way to prevent the worries of senseless goldfish deaths is to put an Oscar in the tank.

[Think free or die]

Our goldfish really don't do well when herons and raccoons pull them out of the pond for a closer look.

[It's me]

Ours died when my two year old decided that they needed a bath, with soap. She left the bar of soap in the bowl and they were -- let's just say, not swimming around the next morning.

[friendly]

Q: What is gold and red and goes 500 miles an hour?

A: A goldfish in a blender.

Q: What goes "glub, glub, glub, BOOM!" A: A goldfish in the microwave.

[friendly]

Q: What is gold and red and goes 500 miles an hour?

A: A goldfish in a blender.

Q: What goes "glub, glub, glub, BOOM!"?

A: A goldfish in the microwave.

[InvisibleChurch]

Why do goldfish die?

They actually commit suicide because they are bored.

[AnAmericanMother]

This article is pretty much accurate, but I positively loathe keeping goldfish in an aquarium. They are hardier than most tropical fish, and if you don't buy the $1.19 specials they aren't inbred or sickly.

But they are FILTHY! Goldfish actually seem to excrete more than they eat . . . within a day or so there will be nasty tubular-shaped goldfish deposits all over the place. They clog filters, especially the undergravel ones, and you have to wash their gravel frequently. They'll also tear up any plants you put in the aquarium.

Goldfish belong in an outdoor pond where the fish by-products are spread out over a larger area and you don't have to stare at it all day. Dig it deep enough and put water lilies and other aquatic plants in pots on the bottom, and you'll never be bothered by goldfish poop. (Dig a shallow inclined beach on one end of your pond and decorate it with washed and dried seaweed in the spring, and you may get lots of little baby goldfish too!)

[JimVT]

I must have hit the wrong button.

Is this Zoo Parade.com?

[AnAmericanMother]

Our goldfish really don't do well when herons and raccoons pull them out of the pond for a closer look.

Easy cure: chickenwire over the pond, stapled down around the edges with BIG cable nails. If you get black chickenwire and keep it close to the water surface, you'll never see it. (My parents live in coastal Georgia, and it's not just 'coons and Great Blues, it's the darned gators.)

[Lando Lincoln]

Why do goldfish die??

Aw...now you did it. I won't sleep at all tonite!!

[AnAmericanMother]

An easier way to prevent the worries of senseless goldfish deaths is to put an Oscar in the tank.

Oh, you mean "One of those cute little orange and black fishies."

Sure do grow fast, don't they? A friend of mine once had an Oscar that ate another Oscar that was about the same size. We never did figure out how he did it.

[Noslrac]

I had some baitfish goldfish as a kid put them in a tank and the suckers would never die. I swear they lived for years and i rarely cleaned the tank. They got to be pretty big too. I think they were mutant.

[meanie monster]

I dug a 150 gallon pond in my yard last spring. It's about 2ft deep. I stocked it with plants tad poles and bought 10 feeder goldfish for $1.00. 6 died in the first week and I have 4 left and my pond has froze over this winter. I went out there 2 days ago and they are thriving as ever and getting pretty big. They have also changed colors. They all had black in them when I bought them, and they are solid gold now. They don't eat in the winter either.

I don't know what makes them die. I never give them tap water, I catch rain in buckets and change it out when I can and I don't change but 30% of it at a time. Gonna get some koi in the spring.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/845670/posts
WHY DO SALMON DIE? Is it just coincidence that these two threads were started on the same day? :)

[greydog]

Thet tried to hide weapons of mass destruction from the (pansey) U.N. but the USA showed the light.