as mentioned previously, theo is my goldfish. he's already outlived his predecessor(theo senior) by a little over a year. secretly i was not way excited when i first got him because i had to hold him in my lap during a 45 minute drive to my apartment in provo. since then however, i have become way too attached to him . . . it's almost sad! he's seen me through thick and thin and moved with me four times already! anyway, the reason i brought this up was because tonight, we decided to add lindsey and sam's tiny little goldfish to theo's bowl just to see what happened. i was all gung ho (how DO you spell that?) about it, thinking it would be cool if theo ate him (theo is quite large). but now that he's in there, i just can't stop worrying about theo! what if the little midget fish steals all the oxygen and theo suffocates? what if the tiny thing has a disease that gets passed on to theo?? mostly i'm getting these ideas because i googled goldfish care to see if they said anything about having more than one in a bowl at a time, and there was all this advice (mind you that one site was run by a 13 year old! -- she did mention though that she's been a goldfish owner since age 6, so i think her advice counts for SOMETHING) (funny side note . . . when i first typed this, i accidently put that the 13 year old girl had been a golfish since age 6. now that's funny) and they advised having 10 - 20 gallons per FISH. theo is swimming in a half gallon. apparently theo could grow a lot larger if he had a bigger space, which would be awesome because theo's already HUGE! also he needs enough surface area to get enough oxygen, and having two fish means needing more surface area which i do not have! moral of the story is, that after my googling, i am probably going to remove the midget fish before i go to bed, and i'm seriously tempted to use my christmas money to buy theo a tank haha. i'll sleep on the idea. i mean, if theo weren't here when i got home from my mission, how would i adjust?? who would move back to provo with me and help me through the craziness that is inevitable while you're in college?? it really is kind of sad how attached i've become . . .
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10-20 gallons per fish? That seems like a ton... maybe my mind has been skewed by all the cartoons/comics I see where they're in the small containers...
Oh honey! I want a Theo! Dude, if you put them in a pond outside they grow HUGE!!! So, why not skip the whole big tank thing, and give him a pond in your yard?? Your parent's would be okay with that, right?
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