We had a very well cared for Oscar. He was a smart fish. He really only liked to eat tails. He was in a hundred gallon tank with just a few other fish besides his pet feeder halfgoldfish he refused to finish eating (every time he’d refuse to eat a goldfish, it got named after a meal or a food and became part of the fish family)
The bastard still tried to commit suicide like once a month. We were just lucky someone was usually home because I know what the cats wanted to do. I don’t know what the damn fish wanted but he’d jump out of the tank regularly.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I’ve had aquariums on and off through the decades. My last one was a 150 L tank, very well planted, and three small schools, zebras, lneons and guppies. All of them keep to small areas in the wild, and see to be fine in that sort of surroundings. Also, schools are mesmerizing. A Japanese aquarist, Takashi Amano was famous for designing huge aquariums, with massive forests, and just a few fish.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you just made me want to get fish again. i love tetras but i was a kid. i knew shit about fish so i couldn’t keep them alive. by the time i was old enough to properly care for a fish we had our Oscar and those tetras would have just been Brunch. I don’t think we had a fish named Brunch.
MrSusan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think I’ve actually seen one of his aquariums in Lisbon, it was beautiful.