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ever owned fish?

I used to have some bettas, but they all died because they wouldn't eat for some reason. My mom also got a teensy little goldfish from a Girl Scout thing, but the thing grew bigger than my hand and way too big for the tank we'd been using, so my dad wound up giving it to Petco.
 
オレンジ said:
No. I find no joy in keeping any, and see no joy for them being kept in an enclosure.
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Fish have incredibly small brains - and small ones like goldfish would probably never wander far from where they were spawned in the wild. So I don't think they care too much. After all, their main concern is survival, which requires food and no predators, both of which a tank (and an owner) provide them with.

Anyway, I have one - goldfish, that is - that's about ten or eleven years old or so. Not sure if that's a normal lifespan or not.
 
Wow you must take good care of it! But it should still have anouther 5-10 years!
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Hmmmm... well, I don't exactly. :P I mean, I feed it every day and stuff but the filtration system is sort of old and the tank is frequently pretty grimy, and I never have time to clean it. So I guess he's just a pretty resilient little bugger. And another ten years? I never realized goldfish could live so long...

Whats it living in and how big is it?
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It's in about a five gallon tank, I guess. I'm not really a fish enthusiast, so I'm not too sure how big it is.
 
I had two when I lived in New Jersey, in a small, regular fish bowl. They died later.
 
Yes, we had a big tank when I was really little, but all our fish died eventually, and we never replaced them =(
 
I owned 2 blue beta fish, but my sister and I didn't feed them enough, so they nearly died. We took them to the pet store and gave them back XD
 
I used to have a fish tank when I was little, but all the fish died. I've had goldfish since then, but they died too. My last one was when I was what, eleven? I didn't even have a name for him until he started turning white (it really is true that a goldfish left in the dark for too long will turn white), when I named him Neon. Then he died. I had him for almost a year and a half though, which is a long time for a gold fish that you won at your old school's fair.
 
I've only owned one fish, and still have him, a blue betta named William. He was a birthday present. He was my only pet when I lived in the dorms.

Whenever he dies (which I hope isn't soon), I'm going to get another betta and call him William the Second. It'll be awesome. ...for me, anyway. XD;
 
Use to. They were these very tiny fish, and I had this so long ago that I don't even remember what they looked like.
 
We have 6 goldfish, 2 angelfish, 3 fishes (I don't know what breed they are) and 1 fish (Whose breed I also don't know).
 
I have a 10 gallon fishtank in my room. I have about 13/14 fish in it at the moment.

When they die (Or at least most of them), the thing is gone. I'm so sick of the noise the filter makes.
 
Yes.

The first time I ever had fish, they died within the week.

The next time, we had two googly eyed goldfish and one of them ended up being eaten by my cat, so we got a new one. It was just a regular old goldfish and it lived with the surviving googly eye one. Then the googly eye one died of an infection and the other goldfish died of natural causes.
 
Yeah, they were cute. But they all died of a disease. =[ Their tails, the almost see through part started like.. ripping off.
 
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