Fish issue, AGAIN- but not mine

[MonkeyZero]

LOl

Our Petsmart doesnt do that. They have really no questions asked when you buy anything from them

 

[gypsy2621]

She can put the 7 Koi in a 75 gal fish tank with 2, 60 gpm filters .
A gravel cleaner is a necessity to keep the bottom free of sedimant (fish poop).
It wont take long for those 7 fish to out grow the tank so a back up plan will be needed very soon.

I always start Koi in a tank then move them out to the Pond mid spring.

 

[chrisf]

Just wondering? Who were you thinking of reporting it to?.........

 

[GrayDragon]

I still feel guilty for when my Koi had to be in a 50 gallon fish tank for 2 days while I fixed the pond. A bowl?

 

[The Wolf Queen]

HEY. I had like 3 koi in a 10 gal and they did fine. They lived to be 6 and I still have one! They just never grew cuz of the limited space. By the way no they arent very big at all.

 

[RabbitMage]

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Supposedly the outer body stops growing, but internal organs continue to grow until eventually the fish get internally crushed to death.

The typical koi lifespan is 25-35 years, with some reports of koi living to be over 200.

 

[gypsy2621]

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Supposedly the outer body stops growing, but internal organs continue to grow until eventually the fish get internally crushed to death.

The typical koi lifespan is 25-35 years, with some reports of koi living to be over 200.

I have never heard of this before?
I have been raising fish for a long time and stunting them is just that stunting, everything stops growing.
I am not sure where all these ideas come from.

 

[ladycrotalus]

Fish do continue to grow when the environment they are in is smaller than what they are genetically programmed to become and do so in a means to fit in this environment by what seems to be the forced manipulation of bone growth.

Keeping goldfish and koi in tiny tanks and bowls is like keeping a great dane puppy in a 24 inch crate its whole life. Or a child in a closet. Its animal cruelty.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I have to admit when I was younger, it made sense the saying "they won't grow larger than their environment allows". I simply thought it was some really cool feature to fish. Now I wonder why it is so widely accepted to stunt fish when stunting anything else is considered cruel. I think fish are just often overlooked, since they are just fish.

I've had horses that I bought that were being starved to death in their youth. Their growth was stunted by space or malnutrition or starvation. So technically they were stunted by cruelty, correct?

I admit as a child I kept as many fish to a tank as I could keep alive. My parents didn't moniter me and really didn't care about fish. They were simply decorations that swam.

So, the issues I have brought up are simply observations and not accusations. Food for thought.

 

[MonkeyZero]

Right Now, she has them in a 6 gal tank! My pool was full of holes and in terrible shape(its in the attic).
I let her use my 6 gal for temporary until her parents buy her a bigger tank for her bday in 2 months. At least her new 6 gal is a hex shape with a filter gravel etc. Got it for free on CL and let her have it. Its better than a 2 gal bowl with no filter.
I feel BAD for em. I'd take them, but I cant have any more fish for right now.
I lost one of my 3 feeders. 3 fish are left in my tank