Goldfish in 5 gallon??

[OohFeeshy]

Sounds good. Although I did think you were trying to step away from bettas.

Besides, the thing with goldfish is...

 

[BettaMomma]

OH...
one thing I thought I'd throw in here about "goldfish"...

my grandmother, against my kicking, screaming and ranting and raving fits, has 2 goldfish - about 2" each - in a 2.5 minibow. AND she does 100% water changes, right out of the tap - and I am pretty sure she doesn't dechlorinate. I've tried sneaking them out of the house with me, but I have a 7 hour drive home after I leave her house, and i'm pretty sure she'd scratch her head, wonder where her fishes went, and go out and buy more just like them.

Dont ANY of you start going off on my grandma or there'll be some problems. lol

I have told her she is wrong in doing this, ranted and raved and pitched fits EVERY time I go over there, but she will not listen. And, since I live so far away from her there's not much I can do about it.
I just go off on her (very respectfully, of course!) every time I see them.

They've lived that way for almost a year. They seem perfectly happy and swim all over the place. Odd, I know.
Something must be going right.

I am so very excited.
I decided to donate my unused 5G tank (the one that Amos didn't do very well in, neither did my 2 betta girls) to my grandma. My parents came to visit me last weekend, so I sent the tank home with them for her. She called me the night she got it and was ELATED. She took her little goldie out of the 2.5G tank and put him into the 5G!

Even my mom called me and said how much happier the fish is now. He has room to swim and my mom said he zips all over the tank. She said she swears she can see a smile on his face.

Granted, the tank probably still isn't quite big enough for him, but it's much better than what he was in, and probably the best thing that will ever happen to him.