My daughter's goldfish is possessed!!

[sha_lyn]

actually some fish species can live many many yrs. We've had a catfish for 13 1/2 yrs and 2 tinfoil barbs for 7

the life expectancy of a well taken care of gold fish is 15 yrs.
http://www.petplace.com/Articles/artShow.asp?artID=4079

 

[sha_lyn]

oh found this. sounds like you might be over feeding the fish

http://www.petplace.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=1475

. If you feed them with floating goldfish pellets, make certain to soak the pellets first so that they swell up before you feed them to the fish. If you don’t, the fish eat the dried food and it swells up in their stomachs causing problems with their air bladders. The result is known as “flip-over” disease in which the goldfish begin to swim and float sideways or upside down.

 

[RadioNate]

my fish did this and lived at least 7 years. It was a left over girl scout carnival fish and I left girl scouts in 6th grade. I know I still had the fish when I graduated HS.

I was told that there was something wrong with it but I have no idea what.

I rarely fed my fish (I'm talking once a week if he was lucky) so I don't think it was over feeding.

After he died someone told me that their were drops to add to the water that could have "cured" him

Talk to your local pet store.

I did try to flush my fish once. It was floating and didn't even move when I took him out of the tank. However he jumped back to life hitting the cold toilet water so back into the tank he went. Lived a long time after that too.

My DS3 is dying for a fish (specifically one orange fish in a round bowl) hopefully we won't have too many problems.

 

[Celluloidgal]

Originally posted by RadioNate
My DS3 is dying for a fish (specifically one orange fish in a round bowl) hopefully we won't have too many problems.

Does he watch "Stanley"?

 

[RadioNate]

Originally posted by Celluloidgal
Does he watch "Stanley"?

He used to! I bet that's where he got it from!

 

[decker96]

Originally posted by sha_lyn
oh found this. sounds like you might be over feeding the fish

http://www.petplace.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=1475

Oh, I guarantee that they are overfed at times. DS4 wants to feed them constantly, he can't understand that they only have to eat once a day not 3 times like people. LOL!
We've hidden the food many different places and he always finds it no matter where we put it. Due to his spiderman-like ability to climb walls, cabinets, the refrigerator, we've pretty much given up hiding it. He has gotten better in that he will at least say, "I'm feeding the fish now" before he puts the food in the tank. Which, at least gives you the CHANCE to sprint to the kitchen in 2 seconds flat while yelling "No, stop, wait" before he dumps in half the container of food. Like I said, it gives you a CHANCE to get there, depending on where you are in the house or what you're doing (changing the baby's diaper, for example), it doesn't always happen!

 

[sha_lyn]

LOL... why is it they only want to help when they are too little to? Once they are big enough to help with chores, they don't want to do them anymore.