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RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Sorrak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:17:31 GMT

Uh Zoofew?This topic is dead and Animalgirl got banned during the period of time where my computer wouldn't show this site.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Zoofew — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:37:18 GMT

how did that happen exactly?
long time no see herpsrule

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

herpsrule13 — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:34:23 GMT

this topic is 2months old and animalgirl is banned

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Wallbey — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:17:22 GMT

well you should have known and im not saying this to seem mean but things like that are not meant to be kept as pets for they are hard to take care of plus some animals like that won't eat in captivity.also did you ever think of over feeding?

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Animalgirl — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:43:03 GMT

This is just crazy.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Nikita — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:30:55 GMT

Without a pond, it will most likely die long before reaching that size. Most goldfish are kept in tanks far too small for them and it shortens their lifespans terribly.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Zoofew — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:14:44 GMT

you have to be kiddin 2 feet oh man my cousins goin for a shock

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Nikita — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:22:30 GMT

Uh...no, goldfish can't live in bowls. Do you realize that common goldfish can hit two feet in length? Most people sure don't. The ones in stores are just tiny babies - goldies can live for decades.

If anything, goldfish are even less capable of handling life in a bowl than a betta is - at least a betta doesn't have a maximum size bigger than the bowl itself (not that a goldfish would ever get that big in a bowl; he'd stunt his own growth - and eventually die - in an effort to save himself).

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Animalgirl — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:43:51 GMT

I know that now. People are putting bettas in bowls for two reasons:

1) They do not want to spend money on a filtered tank and believe they will do fine in a bowl (like my mom always says because she doesn't believe me about ammonia)

2) Or they have no idea that they can't live in a bowl.

I'm finding out so much about all this that now I'm wondering if a goldfish can even live in a bowl.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Zoofew — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:47:09 GMT

i dont get it why is every one getting bettas and putting them in these very small fish bowls. at least ou should put one bull tad in a 10 gal till he is a almost frog

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Animalgirl — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:04:05 GMT

I'm working on it already. Thanks!

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Nikita — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:01:42 GMT

It's good that that's been cleared up now, but with that information, you should want to change Moonlight's situation as well - the same thing could happen to him.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Animalgirl — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:58:31 GMT

We were gone for a week. I didn't know that ammonia even existed back then. That is most likely why he died.

RE: R.I.P. Swimmy

Nikita — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:57:17 GMT

He lived in a bowl, for one. Bowls are killers, which we've been over before - no filtration, far too small to house...anything, really, and they foul up very quickly. He probably died of ammonia poisoning.

R.I.P. Swimmy

Animalgirl — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:15:18 GMT

My old tadpole Swimmy died a year ago while I was on vacation and he was fed before we left. When we came back I was surprised to see that he hadn't touched the food. But he had disendegrated and yellow goo was on the top of the tank and poor Swimmy was now a black skeleton. He was a year old bullfrog tadpole on a diet of goldfish pellets and did not yet have any legs. I tried feeding him algae once but he didn't touch it. I got him from a pet shop. It was their last day in buisness before it shut down so I got Swimmy for only a dollar. He lived in a fishbowl which is now Moonlight's. Okay, does anybody know what happened?