Well, when my girlfriend was leaving University residence, her R.A. and H.P. were giving out gifts. One of them was a .5 gallon with 2 goldfish inside. My girlfriend looked at me and said "Do you want that?" (bless her heart for the good intention
) I said "Take it just so someone else cant'". Her roommate (now our roommate), grabbed it and looked at me and said "Look at my fish". I told her that those fish couldn't live in there, and they would die. She assured me that they would as long as she did a waterchange once a month or so
I got in a arguement and left. So I go back a few days later to see my girlfriend and her roommate is in tears, "My fish are dying!"
I looked, and it looked like they had some kind of fungus. I said "I told you they wouldn't last long" and she looked at me crying and said "You take them!". She knew I had a cycled 10 gallon (I had told her she needed at LEAST a 30), and it was sitting empty (I had been setting it up for a female Betta I had special ordered). I told her "No, you knew they could've been brought back to Wal-Mart, and you didn't". Well,
I left for class and went back later that night and saw one in the "tank" and one in a cereal bowl with a bubbler going into it. She looked at me and smiled, "Notice anything different?" I looked and saw the "fungus" was gone. She saw my confused look and said "The girl down the hall said overfeeding caused the fungus so dumped all the water out and filled them back up. So then I placed the fish on a papertowel and wiped the white stuff off"
Then I turned around and I saw her rush out with a glass of water and pour it in. I said "What are you doing?" She said "The girl said I need to do water changes every half hour"
I said "I tried to help, and you won't listen", so I left. I was just informed the other day both had died. So am I a bad person for not taking in the goldies?
Cory
Similar Aquarium Fish Forum Threads
