It looks a little cramped in there.

Sadly...Pacu are closer to vegetarians. Fruit and vegetables, insects that fall in the water...They don't actively hunt and eat fish.

Poor fish needs a bigger tank. And needs to stop banging his head against the top.

* 41 years cool.

* very sad about the tank really. so many years deserves better

* i have blue mollys and other little fish at home - jsut 2 inches each and still wont keep more than 4 in a 2 feet x 1 x .8 foot tank. only now the orange couple have had kids .... lots of kids and Ela does not want to give them up

Raccoons ate the seven big goldfish in my pond out front this week. Water level fell 18 inches this year. I can't refill with the hose, that would have killed them, had to wait for the rain. Well now it's raining but its too late for the fish. The raccoons will live a few days longer for it tho, must have been a good feast, they were big!

So.. even though his glass is small, and his food is wrong, well after 41 years, he must like his life, nothing lives that long if they don't have contentment.

Example, I had a lovely goat named Jeannie, she gave milk for my puppies, kept the blackberry bushes down and just loved stale cinnamon buns from the store I worked at. I worried one winter that she must be lonely outside alone -standing, chewing cud outside my office window not 4' away, sometimes until a crest of snow had formed along her spine. They are very social goats, need to be with others. So I decided the best plan was to send her to stay with a herd of goats for the winter. She 'up and died' on the day she was supposed to leave for the farm. Turns out she was very old and it was her time, but I swear she calmly chose her time. "This is home now, and I'm not leaving" stomp foot, knock over the milk bucket if necessary to make her point. The environment was not at all ideal to her, but it was home and she wasn't going to leave it.

I love the quote from the pizza guy. =)

My buddy had a goldfish that lived for 16 years.... is name was Mic Jagger.

**weeps**

bet the poor thing can't even turn around

It looks like it's about 2 feet long, the tank's 18" deep.

I'm more surprised that it hasn't broken the side off the tank.

He does need a new tank.
But I doubt anyone would want to transfer him. Yeah, no thanks.

BTW I know nothing about big feeesh...

It says in the article the fish lives, and has for its entire life, in a 75 gallon tank - they probably just moved it into the small tank for the picture so it wouldn't hide behind anything or move too much. The tank in the picture is most likely a 20 gallon tank.

75 gallon tank dimensions: 48 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/8
20 gallon tank dimensions: 24 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 16 3/4

Could it still use a bigger tank? Yeah, but it doesn't live in the tiny tank shown and has a fair amount of space.

If they were going to move the fish for photography purposes, you'd think they'd use a clean one without water spots.


I'm 99% sure that's a 75 gallon aquarium, the light you see on the top will be 2 feet long, and you can't see any sign of a plastic frame on the left, and look at it in comparison to the other tanks along the shelf.

aah ty