Imagine thinking flushing a goldfish lets it somehow get to a Lake.

@J-Mac8

6 ай бұрын

I know when I flush! It goes in my septic tank

@bambooblue74

6 ай бұрын

Our public sewer systems unfortunately end back up in our waterways.

@High-Alpha

6 ай бұрын

Haven't you seen "Finding Nemo"?! -"All drains lead to the ocean"

@lycanhd

6 ай бұрын

@@High-Alpha Except septic tanks 🙂

@user-en5kt7me9w

6 ай бұрын

Am I tripping so y'all flush the sewer into the Great lakes? Sounds like a good idea SMH only in the northern Midwest

Everybody laughs now, but wait until all those Magikarp turn into Gyarados....

That’s normal size adult goldfish.

@p12423073

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for knowing. These people, I swear.

Back in the early 70's my grandpa caught a 12" goldfish out of a local creek. Kind of shocked us both.

@jmodified

6 ай бұрын

I saw one in a small river in the early 80's. It was hanging around with a school of carp.

@jamescarpenter7161

6 ай бұрын

Goldfish are carp

It’s not giant type of goldfish and what they need to be big is not only food but space. They increase their size depending on the habitat’s size

@JohnDoeTheTroll

6 ай бұрын

That's a myth that they grow to the size that their habitat allows... Feel free to google it!

@ChiefTrapHustle

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, people don’t really have common sense these days 😂

@FreedomAnderson

Ай бұрын

That’s actually a misconception. Healthy Fish will grow as large as they are supposed to. What stunts the growth in captivity is poor water quality, which is associated with smaller aquariums. A healthy Goldfish will grow to 1ft in length and can live 20 years, with the record being 43 years.

The kind of goldfish you buy at a pet store or get at a fair is called a Comet. And that's a full size one. They get to be the size of a pan fish like a bluegill.

@phw340

6 ай бұрын

If you go to Petco and look at their feeder goldfish tank, the label states they grow to 14 inches long. I had one that my crayfish didn’t eat and it got to 8 inches long in a 10 gallon tank before it died. When I got it, it was 1.5 inches long. Those are not full-size from the pet store, at least from Petco. Goldfish love to eat. I think one of the reasons why this one got so big is that I used to buy rainbow minnows to feed the crayfish, and I thought the crayfish was eating them because they were disappearing. I didn’t realize that the goldfish was actually eating the minnows. So I imagine a goldfish out in the wild that has almost unlimited food resources if it is an environment with lots of little fish.

@billsmith3923

Ай бұрын

Not true at all

I first saw a large goldfish in the wild over 50 years ago. My father said it was common because people would dump their gold fish the same as dogs and cats.

They're not necessarily being dumped, it's the perfect bait fish. Shiny glittery little suckers irrisistable to bigger fish. They snag, escape, and multiply. Fishing with goldfish are illegal in many states for this reason.

@curlyrooster118

6 ай бұрын

Michigan bans them ... big fine.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

6 ай бұрын

Meaning, you buy them and they due, dump them and they thrive. Not that those people aren't a special kind of evil...

@jemeeladams

6 ай бұрын

Yeah we can use them as bait where i live. The catfish and bass love em but i dont dump them cause they will reproduce.

Pet stores and county fairs gets lot of blames for letting people buy or win goldfish home. Goldfish are high maintenance and requires large tanks with filtration systems. Goldfish eat and grow a lot, as well as poop a lot (hence the need for a filtered tank). People who buy goldfish gets just as much blame for this situation especially if they don't do their research. There is more to caring for fish than throwing them into a tank.

@user-xj4jh8ho4x

6 ай бұрын

Pretty sure all fish poop.

@davidguelette7036

6 ай бұрын

Something that I don't see mentioned is that some fishermen actually use goldfish for bait as they are highly visible and attract predators like pike and walleyes.

@TimApple.

6 ай бұрын

I had about half a dozen goldfish that lived happily in a birdbath in my backyard for nearly 2 years - I simply added water once a week, fed them every few days, and topped off the water with mulberry leaves so they could hide from birds.

@Bacteriophagebs

6 ай бұрын

"Goldfish are high maintenance and requires large tanks with filtration systems." So those four goldfish my parents had in a 2-gallon bowl with no filtration for like 4 years weren't actually goldfish?

@GMT439

6 ай бұрын

Ok.. for the idiots.. The fish a the start IS NOT A GOLDFISH.. It's a GOLDFISHED X COMMON CARP or KOI CARP.

As kids in N. Seattle. We caught a few huge goldfish in a local lake. Took them home for our shallow back yard pond. One day they disappeared and we thought the racoons got them. A few days later the neighbor said he found the fish packed tightly into mason jars of water, under his porch. His little boy had taken them because he liked them so much.

@slappy8941

6 ай бұрын

That kid is gonna have a collection of human heads one day.

@cynthiagonzalez658

6 ай бұрын

Are they edible ⁉️

@jmodified

6 ай бұрын

@@cynthiagonzalez658 Probably just like carp - pretty good smoked, edible but not very good any other way, and lots of little bones.

@jamescarpenter7161

6 ай бұрын

They are carp

@cynthiagonzalez658

6 ай бұрын

@@jamescarpenter7161 Oh yeah. Koi=🎏 carp

i can't imagine there arent some people interested in catching those fish and having them in their fish tanks or backyard ponds.

@okamijubei

6 ай бұрын

You mean with the koi?

@user-pg8qi8xo7m

6 ай бұрын

Love to have some of those big goldfish

@juliebradley6961

6 ай бұрын

Great idea pleasedobetter!

*_”make sure it’s dead before you flush it”_* Hmmmm…. Is this an admission that sewers lead to fresh water sources???

“But how do goldfish get from, like, pet store tanks to damaging americas lakes?”… she’s such an eloquent wordsmith 👏

There's a park near me that sells popcorn in the summer. People feed the popcorn to the carp in the lake. They're huge like 35+ lbs. I fly fish so I tied up some yarn flies that look like popcorn. I caught a 10 pound GOLDFISH on a 6 weight fly rod and everybody in the parked clapped. I now have a couple of boxes dedicated to carp flies.... its like catching freight trains.

It’s from dumping them in the river not flushing them. Flushing takes it to waste water processing plant or septic system. A fish couldn’t live thru that 🤦🏻‍♀️

@ThePhilotherianist

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention, most people only flush them when they're already dead.

@CaseyBerard-qv6bi

6 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@curtadams3281

6 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

6 ай бұрын

The giant fluke on X Files did! He was from Russia! Lol

I feel responsible for this. I released Mr. Scales in a pond when I was in 3rd grade and now look what's happened.

@billynomates920

6 ай бұрын

you monster! what have you done? you best change your name to frankenstein while we pray the kracken and godzilla can still handle mr scales before he tops the scales at ten thousand megaladons!

@robertgreen5217

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a kid we use to fish in a local pond that was full of giant gold fish. This was 50 years ago.

My boys and I were fishing at a small lake near STL, MO and they were netting along the bank - for minnows, frogs, etc. One of them exclaimed there was a goldfish. Sure enough! We already had fish tanks at home so we brought him home. He’s alive and thriving - and my son loves the story of how we got “Yoshi” lol

@ADJ1229

6 ай бұрын

That's really cool. I'd love you to get one for my younger son. What lake were you at?

@lycanhd

6 ай бұрын

@@ADJ1229 Try pet store.

@skaldlouiscyphre2453

6 ай бұрын

Now that's catch and release.

We have 2 goldfish. Yes, they were won at a county fair. Over a year they are larger than a size 8 shoe. They are huge!!!! Seriously, they continue growing so we have a 50 gallon tank and may need to upgrade.

@okamijubei

6 ай бұрын

Do you think of create a koi pond in your backyard?

@Heidi.lin...69

6 ай бұрын

I bought a feed tank and set up an indoor pond with a bog filter

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

6 ай бұрын

I don't think they'll grow any more if you DON'T upgrade. Btw, I have a nice 55 gallon one w wood stand and filter up for sale...

@Bakedea87

6 ай бұрын

75 gallon we be good for both

@renaissanceman5847

6 ай бұрын

I got 11 tiny ones at walmart 14 years ago... we put them in a 300 gallon backyard pond that has a UV and filter with a bubbler. they have survived multiple freezes where the top 4 inches of water froze solid and several years where the water was very warm due to the 110 degree heat... most got sick in the last 4 years. 3 are still alive today... they are 8 to 9 inches long.

They are probably the same people who burry their hamster thinking it’s dead not knowing they hibernate.

@roberttalada5196

2 ай бұрын

Oh that’s horrifying

People use them as bait then let the rest go afterwards.

@user-ei9ko1jm1k

6 ай бұрын

lol

Oh please, this is just a carp of a different color. For many years fishermen have used them for bait on their trot lines. You can buy them by the pound at bait stores. Just like some minnows, some of the gold fish get dropped into the lake by accident. That's how 99% of them got there, not by flushing "Goldie" down the toilet!

@FreedomAnderson

Ай бұрын

Goldfish are Carp.

Strange that predator fish aren't taking care of them. They don't exactly blend into their surroundings.

They're resilient and can live in the dirtiest water so they're just gonna get bigger and bigger....has anyone tried butter herbs and a frying pan 🤷

I used to fish in a small pond back in the 1960's that was full of giant goldfish. A piece of bread on a hook and you caught one in less than a minute.

My neighbor used to smoke carp, I tasted it and to say it was strong was an under statement. I likened it as... Fish Limburger!

In Texas they were a common bass bait .

You should see what snapping turtles do if you're scared of goldfish.

I know people that have used live goldfish for Bait, it's illegal to do that, but some people don't care. Like it's illegal to use corn. But people still use it.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

Ай бұрын

What kind of legislature has the time on their hands to make laws about gold fish? No wonder this country is collapsing!

Just stop people. If you don’t want your pets anymore, find them a new home. Don’t set them free.

Thanks for educating us about yet another "invasive" species. Never heard of this one before.

Just think of them as plump koi fish.

They are known to reach about 5lbs. Any fish that looks like a goldfish that are larger than that are Crossed with Common Carp or Koi Carp.

No mistaken dead goldfish from live goldfish. People release pets in the lakes, rivers, ponds and the ocean. Maybe a company can give them to people who are looking for big goldfish.

When I was young I told people that my goldfish grew to be very large. People didn't believe me.

We used to bury bad tasting fish under trees and in our garden beds.

"I say dont do it". A smart kid.

If you see any goldfish in any ponds or waterways, try to catch them and remove the invasive fish.

Don't flush or dump. Bury them in your compost or rose garden. They make great fertilizer for food and flowering plants.

They look so amazing

How do they survive in a lake but not in my aquarium?? 😂😂😂

@al28854

6 ай бұрын

depends on what you put in the water with your fish.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

6 ай бұрын

Weeds: rip them out, they come right back. Plants, spends lots of money, feed, water. Soil, and they die anyway! I think many things are better if we stop messing with them so much. I've had plants (corn plants and little white flower plants for outside. Corn plant is named Robert. Had him since before 2000. He's now over 7 feet tall. Little white outside flowers were on the porch rail til we had to move and have naughty squirrels that mess w my outside plants. But only the ones i just bought that cost $$$. Once it got regular sun and water, it started getting yellow leaves and losing its little green leaves!!

@waxandwayne

6 ай бұрын

More food... more oxygen and direct sunlight.

@al28854

6 ай бұрын

very frequent feeding of high protein diets, frequent water changes, and larger spaces to swim.

Nothing new here. I recall seeing this waaaay back in the 1950s.

They are edible, like other carp, but are rarely eaten.

I seen these 20 years ago in local lakes but they were at least 10 lbs and the funny thing was they were fancy tails!

@p12423073

6 ай бұрын

When you say fancy tails, are you talking about Ryuken and Moor fantail types? Or was it basically a long finned Goldfish? I ask, because the American made classic, the Comet Goldfish, as its name implies, has long tails. It also used to be the most common goldfish found at American fairs.

I have two of those type of goldfish in my pond. They're beautiful!

when i was in HS they had an indoor ecosystem w/ a pond full of giant goldfishes...

5 minutes later she dumped it into river....100%

@jesseregenauer630

6 ай бұрын

I envisioned her smiling at the camera and then proceeding to throw the entire fish bowl in to the water behind her....🤣🤣

fun fact goldfish are perfectly edible

@dlkline27

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. I was going to ask about that.

@kevinb3812

6 ай бұрын

I think it's all in the preparation. Some Asian people really know how to make carp taste great!

@hildahilpert5018

6 ай бұрын

That,s true.I have a book of Japanese fairytales with the story of a magic goldfish..In the story the evil stepmother catches the fish and cooks it. The girl takes the bones and buried them and good things happen to her because she always feed it and was kind to the fish

@michaelchadwick3497

6 ай бұрын

If you have ever bitten into a fish stick and seen black specks , your eating carp .

@daveys

6 ай бұрын

@@michaelchadwick3497- Carp or crap?

I live in a small town in central Texas and AFAIK every bait shop in the area sells goldfish for bass and flathead bait, although I've never seen or heard of anyone encountering super size goldies.

Wow that one guy teaches buffalo. I bet that’s a hard job.

Just so folks know, a lot of fish sold as "gold fish" are just a species of carp known to produce pigment mutations resulting in their bright colors. They are edible. Just like carp.

We have that problem at my local fishing lake. No limit on trying to get the goldfish out. Some of them are 30 lbs. Giant carp.

The crazy thing is..... they do look happy. 🤣❤

Take a look next time you go to Petco and look at the feeder goldfish tank. The label says they can grow to 14” long. I had one my crayfish didn’t eat and it grew to about 8” long in a 10 gallon tank before it died. Out in the wild they get huge! I didn’t realize that the rainbow minnows I bought for the crayfish were actually being eaten by that one goldfish. I think that’s why it got so big. Imagine if it was out in the wild in an environment, they had almost unlimited amounts of small fish for it to eat. They will get pretty big.

I caught one while carp fishing here in Texas. Pretty wild stuff

Ok if ppl are actually thinking that flushing goldfish is the cause of this we have bigger issues!

@hypanusamericanus9058

Ай бұрын

It is extremely rare for them to survive getting flushed. Recall that the video also mentions how some goldfish owners dump their goldfish directly into the environment; I am guessing this is how most wild goldfish come to be.

Ban selling invasive species. Mere tradition is not reason to destroy indigenous fish habitat. Many creatures should not be pets.

They have been found in Lake Tahoe to! What a surprise right!

They look really cool that big! 😄 Should find a way to market their size!

Carps grew big in the wild, saw big Goldies in the farm pond we just left them their.

Looks like they need to have goldfish tournaments.

Fifty years ago they were in ponds and lakes in New York but were more gray brown color They were Carp and they are a food source in many countries.Most of the fish that are released were not pets but bait for other fish that the fishermen let go after they were done fishing.

Years ago gold fish were cheaper than buying minnow bait and worked really good.!! That's where alot of them got into waterways

I bought a 45 gal aquarium, someone said to get a goldfish first….14 inches when it died!

Give me those giant goldfish. I have special places for them in my veggie garden 😊

I have giant goldfish in my patio pond. I bought fifteen of them at .15 cents apiece about 11 years ago, still got eleven of them left.

@p12423073

6 ай бұрын

Full grown, not giant.

@tomtroy3792

6 ай бұрын

Don't they ever reproduce? I bought 15 of them and put in my patio pond

Commonly kept in home backyard ponds

I caught a 2 lb goldfish in my local pond years ago and can attest to the taste of a giant goldfish to be a cross between medra and crap

Ladies and gentlemen this is 'Goldy' from Kick buttowski episode.

Was with my son by a streem in cumberland maryland when we saw a giant carp, honestly larger then those gold carp, I didn't know what type of fish it was until I told my dad about it, that fish had been there many years n I was praying no one would try to catch it

The goldfish are a type of carp that were bred by chinease royalty because they matched there royal colors, were being invaded by chinafish.

I've had goldfish that big in my small pond. Keep feeding them and they grow.

what do you use for bait with goldfish?

@waxandwayne

6 ай бұрын

Mealworms, corn.... same as what you would use for carp.

Actually, Goldfish are quite tasty. They are very sweet almost like they have eaten pounds of sugar.

but how do they taste?

Wow 😮

Iv caught one and seen a few ,they hang out with carp

Mitchell woods pond…. Full of goldfish

use the ones they scoop out for fertilizer.

I’ve seen videos where people are purposely releasing goldfish to make ponds. Smh.

How do they taste? Missed opportunity?

I've seen them in the Skokie lagoons in Illinois, ponds in Menominee Falls Wis, West bend Wis. they are probably a ton of more places if I can see them in a 2 state area. They should just ban goldfish sales.

@apollow_g1025

6 ай бұрын

oh yea cuz banning stuff works so well historically in america with everything cant think of any examples where it didnt work perfectly everytime

Yep I saw one a few years back happily swimming with a school of trout. So technically it should be now called a shoal but since they were rainbow trout I will give them a pass.

Oneida lake in New York also had them for a while, fish supplier was selling 20 for a dollar in the 90s really good size gold or red track at the walleyes are used for bait, there a crap

They are fresh water fish.

I’ve used them as bait before. I didn’t think it was an issue because carp already live in Michigan. The goldfish mentioned here must be especially robust somehow compared to the native carp.

@stevenbissonnette7893

6 ай бұрын

they are essentially the same fish. i have 20 goldfish in my pond. they are still outside and the water temp is 3 degrees celcius. Governments should ban them as bait. these news stations are out of touch.

@user-if6bl2xn6v

5 ай бұрын

Using goldfish as bait in Michigan is illegal. Ya better not let the game warden catch you. I'm sure they probably work real well. I bet Mr. Pike would destroy a big gold fish on a tip-up, bass too.

How do they taste?

I have caught one at a city lake ...

imagine being a species not fit for this world....we MUST stay on top of the chain

Here in British Columbia, the intellectuals within the ministry of environment has introduced both Carp and bass in hundreds of different lakes...great idea....???

I think they look cool, maybe thell become trendy to keep at that size. Cheaper than koi.

Over 700 cities/communities still have CSO, combined sewer overflow, systems where during moderate to heavy rain untreated raw sewage goes right into our waterways in the USA.

I saw one video in Thailand the goldfish is edible but has too many bones you have to be careful in eating.

😢that is sad and not right to do this

@user-ei9ko1jm1k

6 ай бұрын

oh

They sell them here in Buffalo ny. I actually have one that big in my tank now.

Is there any significant difference between a Goldfish and a Carp? They both do the same damage!

I've seen schools of 50+ in the shallows of the Saginaw Bay in Michigan.

Put a price on them. . Get koi pond owners to buy them at. Enormous prices and they'll go fast

Ive often eaten carp (Karpfen) in german restaurants

Probably more likely people using them for bait and dumping their bait buckets at the end of the night. Paylakes sell goldfish by the pound for fishing and they often end up in the pond possibly washing out into waterways during heavy rains. I really can't imagine them being much of a problem since they're basically a small common carp(originally invasive but naturalized) with more natural predators(catfish love them, raccoons, ducks, cranes, herons).

@p12423073

6 ай бұрын

Their temp rang and survival abilities allow them to outcompete the local fauna, and out breed the predators.

@MrOldclunker

6 ай бұрын

They never stop eating as goldfish have a different digestive system than other fish. So they eat all the food for native fish to survive plus they eat other fishes eggs.

@larrybrock6811

6 ай бұрын

@@MrOldclunker "They never stop eating" Yeah that's all fish. As for eating eggs and fry that's pretty much all fish too.