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[aakaakaak]

So I come in to work today and notice someone's got one of those little plastic 1 gal betta tanks with a.........










wait for it........





are you sitting down....












Common Fantail Calico goldfish

She's had the tank a little over a week.

She's using aquasafe.

She gave me the "deer in the headlights" look after I asked her about the cycle.

I have my work cut out for me.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

I'm no expert but I think that tank may be a tad small........

 

[aakaakaak]

I figure once the goldie dies from ammonia poisoning, and she upgrades to a 5 gallon long she'll get something a little less unruly. I might even get her to do endlers or something.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

While it is way too small and no cycle, it has not filter so nothing to cycle. Just change half the water every day for her! Was it a gift or somthing?

 

[aakaakaak]

From her daughter. She got the fish on her own though.

LFS guy said it'd be fine since goldies will only grow to the size of the tank. But I'd like to know....can a goldie shrink to the size of a tank? Didn't think so.

Edit: and a nitrogen cycle will happen with or without a filter.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

I know the cycle will still happen, but really in a 1 gal tank with a huge pooper like a goldfish, it would really be useless! LOL

Make a note, the LFS guy is a dope!

 

[aakaakaak]

....or smoking it....

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

*laughingc LOL.....

 

[OrangeCones]

I had a guy tell me once that I could get an octopus and keep it in a freshwater tank if I drip acclimated it to freshwater for a few hours.....

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

That guy was doing more then smokin it! LOL

 

[aakaakaak]

Oh...ouch....my wife has a stew pot she could acclimate an octopus in.

 

[Newman]

acclimate it to her stomach?

 

[Fishman1995]

Ive always wanted to have an exotic reef tank. octopus, lionfish, scorpionfish, etc. LOL those probably wouldnt work out to well unless the octopus was sorta big

 

[aakaakaak]

acclimate it to her stomach?

She'd cook it with randomly weird spices at 3AM and then try and acclimate it to MY stomach. She's strange like that.

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One of the LFS fish bubbas admitted today that he learns more about fish from talking with me than he does working at the LFS from day to day. I don't know if I should be happy about that or saddened that he doesn't know more?

 

[Newman]

lol aak.

If the octopus was big then it will attempt to eat those fish and it will die from their poison. wouldnt work out at all xD

 

[ryanoh]

Octopus are cool but after watching them open jars to get food out on youtube they kind of freak me out, especially since I feel like I've heard on the Discovery channel before that its not strange for them to crawl out of the tank and across the floor of the lab if they see food on a counter somewhere.

 

[OrangeCones]

I kept one when I lived in Florida, and yes, they are escape artists. On more than one occasion, she had left her tank (110 gallon) to swim instead in the sump of a larger tank. This was always an indication that the water quality was off in her tank. To get to the other tank's sump, she had to get out of her tank, crawl across a carpeted floor approximately 20 feet, get between the wall and the stand of the other tank, and open a lid that covered the sump.

 

[lauraf]

OrangeCones, what kind of aquatic critter have you not kept at one point or another???

 

[ryanoh]

How did your octopus even know there was another tank over there? And if it just saw it, that's pretty high thinking to be able to know you live in water, see something across the room and also know it's water, realize yours feels off, then go get in the other tank. I'm impressed.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

Impressed...yes....freeked out YESSSSS!