Fishes Who Are Neglected And Live Long Lives

[Rafael Dilone]

I have a aunt in Dominican Republic with a 10 gallon tank that has a single fish. She has no filter,no lighting,no fish food, and does not use any aquarium products. She very oddly cleans the tank maybe once a month and feeds it oatmeal flakes. The strange thing is it has been alive for 5 years. It is a fish that I dont know of. She got it from a river near her house. Does anyone know how this is possible?

 

[Spader]

um, this is kinda the wrong section

 

[dwarfgourami]

I have a aunt in Dominican Republic with a 10 gallon tank that has a single fish. She has no filter,no lighting,no fish food, and does not use any aquarium products. She very oddly cleans the tank maybe once a month and feeds it oatmeal flakes. The strange thing is it has been alive for 5 years. It is a fish that I dont know of. She got it from a river near her house. Does anyone know how this is possible?

Well, people did survive the German concentration camps. Some of them.

 

[lordi]

i know some one that had a cold walter tank with a gold fish

no filter and walter changes when ever he was botherd ( around once evey 3-4 months ) with no walter treatment

the walter was so dirty you could not see the fish in it.

but it lived for 6 years like that

 

[fish_fetish65]

a friend of mine had an angelfish... it lived in a tank with no heater, no filter, and she very rarely fed it or cleaned the tank. it lived many years...

 

[McMurray]

most likely its a case where the water is so stable the fish gets used to it being in the condition it is in. the most dangerous time for the fish will be the cleaning process of the tank as all the poisons and toxic things in the water would disappear and the fish would go into shock because the water is clean. (cold turkey)

Picture it you get grabbed from your house and chucked into Antarctica you will most likely die in the fist few days if you don’t acclimatise to the cold. I know this from first hand experience that once you acclimatise to your surroundings you will feel more at home. So instead of having to wear 10 t shirts, a fleece jumper and a thermal jacket and several skin tight hats before acclimatisation. You will now wear 1 Helihanson short and a buffalo jacket with a Dockers hat.
If you were then chucked into the Sahara an hour later again you would most likely die of heat stroke because you body can acclimatise so quickly.
That explains the heat/cold

As for the toxins every living thing produces toxins, chemicals and medicines. The best way I can explain iit this way. Our body’s produce morphine to ease off any pains that we have. When someone starts taking drugs like cocaine the body is tricked into thinking that it is producing to much morphine. So the body’s reaction to this is to stop the production of it. When someone stops taking it the body suddenly gets this surge of pain and the body starts to produce morphine again. But it is unable to produce the amounts needed quick enough. So the body then goes into relapse (cold turkey). The body will do this until it produces enough pain killing drugs to stop the twitching and the pains.

Now not every fish can survive in all temperatures even if it had 3 weeks to acclimatise. You must also remember the Dominican republic is a very warm place so the ambient temperature is most likely in the high 20’s low 30’s all the time. So if it is a tropical type fish then its most likely happy at the temp.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Pretty much what Mc.Murray said. The toxins build up gradually, theree isn't suddenly 100ppm of nitrite. In a real life example, one Roman emporer who's name I can't recall was afraid of being poisoned, so he ate said poison in very small doses so he built up a resistance to it. Funilly enough, when he was overthrown, he tried to commit suicide by taking, you guessed, it, poison. Didn't work, so he had to run into his sword....

BTW, six years is nothing for a goldfish. Like, a 7th or 8th of it's expected lifespan.

 

[daspricey]

my sis kept a goldfish in a 3-5g tank with 3 others. 8 years( ) later we moved house which had a pond, in she went and dissapeared.
she was beautiful!!!!
david

 

[drango91]

they bacteria must be beneficial to the fish though, its kinda like the amazon i guess, it LOOKS dirty but tis the purest water in the world thanks to nature