January 08, 2007
Little-known facts about the goldfish
- Goldfish can have a life span of 20, 25, or 43 years, according to the internet.
- This increases to 70 or 260 years if you count koi.
- Goldfish are omnivorous, meaning they eat both salmon and berries.
- Goldfish have a memory of three seconds, I read somewhere.
- So goldfish see someone sprinkle food into their fishbowl, and three seconds later they're in awe of the miracle of their food. Another three seconds and they think, shit, I haven't eaten all day. Three seconds after that, they forget they were hungry.
- Ironically, goldfish feel sorry for humans who see angels and demons full on and three seconds later wonder what that shape was they saw out the corner of their eye, and then go make toast.
- Goldfish can survive in freezing water.
- For this reason, euthanizing terminally ill golfish by freezing them in a little bag of water is not always such a great idea.
- Instead, some goldfish lovers recommend adding Eugenol (AKA clove oil) and vodka to their tank. There is some controversy over whether this works.
If I were a goldfish in need of euthanasia, vodka is definitely the way I'd want to go...
unless there were a Captain Morgan (Private Stock) and Coke option - in which case I'd like that... or a c0deine option. That one's good, too.
if you feed gold fish too much, they will explode. really. cause they don't remember it, as you said.
Posted by: beta at January 10, 2007 11:18 AMi've also heard one should avoid feeding grass to guinea pigs and then letting them sleep in the sun, as they can explode.
Posted by: mig at January 10, 2007 11:20 AMGoldfish have more chromosomes than humans. I wonder if they are more sensitive animals compared to dolphins.
Posted by: TheresNoTylerDurden at January 10, 2007 12:23 PMSounds like heaven. Being a drunk goldfish swimming round a tank floating in vodka, not even being to remember any bad drunken behavior I got up to because my memory is only three seconds!
Posted by: emma at January 11, 2007 01:21 AM