The thread for fish owners, and their inner feelings

I always feed them too much and they go belly up

The beta I had for 2 1/2 years just died Friday.

I just kill them. I don't mean to. It just kinda happens . They come in the door and three months later, they're dead. They don't speak up.

I've never had a fish.

MY friend once bought a fish and didn't have a fishtank. He kept the fish in my fishtank.

His name was Ugmo.

now how the fuck did this not get deleted

but anyway, ive never had a fish, but have had hermit crabs, which poop a lot

Jim is busy with mactitties.

If you weren't my Left Hand Man, I would have to cut you really deep for using my pet name for Lauren.

All of my fish died. I went away on vacation and my mom killed 5 of them. Then i moved and the remaining 5 died within 12 hours.

I used to work in the pet dept at WalMart.

Get a Betta. they're pretty and hard to kill.
You just have to remember that Bettas have extremely small stomaches. They're smaller than their eyes. They only need 1 pellet, or 2 or 3 crumbs of food (depending on what brand you get) a day. They don't need a lot of water, or filtration, because in nature they live in mud puddles.
Don't put them with any other Bettas, they'll fight to the death.

Change the water when it starts to get ickey, ever other week or so.

And don't ever put tap water in with your fish! I can't believe how many people would come back to WalMart wanting their money back after killing their fish that way. Splurge on the dollar gallon of distilled water.

Get a tank with a lid, they jump. Careful getting them INTO the tank, too, I had one lost behind a bureau for a few minutes when he tried to escape. (Sucker lived 2 years, though - and that happened almost every time I changed the water. I had the only ever dusty fish).

And that's all you really need to know.

Get tiger oscars. They get big if you have a big tank, but like other fish, will stay small if you have a small tank. We bought two, and one died recently. The other is just swimming around in the tank. We popped the lid open a few times, only to have one leap out of the water and hit the floor.

I would recommend a goldfish because they live longer.

I had a few betas in college. None of them lived more than 1 year. My favorite was this red beta whom I named El Diablo. Unfortunately, I knocked he/she onto the floor by accident. I managed to get he/she back into the bowl, but the fins slowly fell off each day thereafter. It was like "good morning pretty fish, AAHH MY GAWD you're going bald!!!"

i had four fishies growing up. but then one morning i woke up and had only one giant fishy, because he ate the other three because i forgot to feed him for like two weeks.

-"Oh god it's fin rot isn't it? Tell me it's not fin rot."

AT's too big for a TAnk !!!!


U know AT !!!!

whAT is AT ......cATfish bub ????

yuppp

when my cousin moved to florida, he had like a dozen fish he couldn't take with him so he gave them to me with a 30 gal tank. he visited a year later and there were only two or three left.

i've killed five of the six fish i've owned this year: four goldfish and one betta. i thought i'd killed the other betta, too, but when i went to dump out the bowl, he started swimming around. this makes me both the fish hitler and the fish jesus.

anyway, you can use tap water, but if you do, you have to get these little drops that neutralize it. it's easier (and cheaper) than buying distilled water, but if you don't put enough in, your fish will die.