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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months agoThen why can’t I yeet a bunch of goldfish
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jared@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Technique I imagine.
explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Skill issue
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren’t going to make it easy
Tryasimightalright@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, have you heard of the mullet toss competition?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
not the carp. they are my favourite fish to angle for :(
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have a pilots license?
danc4498@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
My understanding is these are juvenile fish that will be caught as adults, so they will live for a while.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Try to fly higher above the tank and see if it helps
bluewing@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You certainly can!
_bcron_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BanjoShepard@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
So what I hear you saying is I need a bigger aquarium…
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You always need a bigger aquarium
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
And a bigger fish
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
But it has rained, hasn’t it? Smug look
This is why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The 70s was a wild time.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The math actually works, and is quite simple. Just assume the fish is a sphere
WastingCommentSpace@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I can only assume the fish goes in the square hole.
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
The person you replied to only spoke about sudden change in temperature, not falling from height.
bluewing@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It ain’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop…