• slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club
      7·
      22 days ago

      With all of these animals being smarter and more aware than we thought, there are fewer and fewer places to safely crank it.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      Okay this has nothing to do with fish and everything to do with the mirror test. What does it say about you when you know you’ve acquired a doppelganger and you see a photograph and can’t tell if it’s you or the doppel in the photo because it was at the event where you met your doppel and that was 20 years ago. Like, we had the same glasses frames and everything it was weird

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
    61·
    23 days ago

    We have a goldfish. Our toddler will put her toys around the outside of the aquarium. Every few days she’ll swap them out. The fish will swim down and look at each one. They both get something out of this arrangement.

  • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    38·
    22 days ago

    This is why even though I love aquariums, I don’t think I could have one. Like I get that the purpose of the image is to show that they have a much larger space than most other fish kept in aquariums, and that’s a much bigger tank than most people have, but that still doesn’t seem like a lot of room to live their entire life in. It just makes me sad to think about it.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      17·
      22 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.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 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.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      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.