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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThen why can’t I yeet a bunch of goldfish
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
jared@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Technique I imagine.
explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Skill issue
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You can yeet goldfish. Carp are stupid tough. It’s the tropical fish we often keep that are kinda wimpy. Also, they’re not coming from a super healthy environment (the store) to our tanks.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren’t going to make it easy
Tryasimightalright@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, have you heard of the mullet toss competition?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I definitely have not, and now I have. I’m unsure if I should thank you for this or not.
I feel like it takes the sport out of it if the fish is dead though. The whole sport of the carp throwing is that a carp absolutely can kick a grown man’s ass and flop to freedom if he isn’t careful. You leave a carp alone long enough and those things turn into damn near coelacanths. They’ll eat your dog. Manhandling one of those suckers into a parabolic arc is going to take skill, strength, planning, and luck.
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
not the carp. they are my favourite fish to angle for :(
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Have a pilots license?
danc4498@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe 95% survive, but how many are injured in a way that might impact their quality of life?
Since these are being dropped specifically for the purpose of being caught and killed asap, quality of life might not matter.
For your sad little goldfish, please be gentle!
subtext@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.
For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!
For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
My understanding is these are juvenile fish that will be caught as adults, so they will live for a while.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
One reason is because the hatcheries are in the same general area as the lakes, so conditions are pretty similar. The temperature will be about the same at the same depths as the hatchery, and the water comes from the same source.
Sonor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Try to fly higher above the tank and see if it helps
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You certainly can!
_bcron_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BanjoShepard@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And in a similar but completely different way, the fish are being added to massive bodies of water. Home aquariums are minute in comparison, so they can’t balance out chemical swings as easily and are much more prone to higher levels of nitrites and other toxic chemicals. The larger the body of water, the more stable the water quality.
turtlepower@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
So what I hear you saying is I need a bigger aquarium…
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
You always need a bigger aquarium
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
You could probably air drop one goldfish into a 100 gallon tank and it’d be fine (assuming it survived the fall).
Tacoma@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
And a bigger fish
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
something i love about Lemmy is that on the drop of a hat someone is willing to calculate the “surface area to fish ratio”
leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Problem is, you almost never know if that’s actually true or complete bullshit.
It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
But it has rained, hasn’t it? Smug look
This is why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The 70s was a wild time.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The math actually works, and is quite simple. Just assume the fish is a sphere
WastingCommentSpace@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I can only assume the fish goes in the square hole.
dingus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m confused though. Don’t people use this to talk about how small things like bugs can fall from a large height and be uninjured, but large things like a human or elephant will be injured if falling from a height? I feel like what you’re saying is backwards to what the internet has told me.
Apollo42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The person you replied to only spoke about sudden change in temperature, not falling from height.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It ain’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop…