Oldest Goldfish Ever Was So Old Its Scales Turned Silver
Tish, the oldest goldfish in recorded history, lived to the ripe old age of 43. In his later years, his scales actually started changing from gold to silver. The average lifespan of a common goldfish (Carassius auratus), is 10-15 years, but the current Guinness Record for the oldest goldfish ever was set by a male […]
Woman Claims She Nursed Pet Fish Back to Health After Half Its Body Rotted Away
In a Facebook post that went viral last week, a Thai woman shared a story about how she treated her pet goldfish and managed to save its life even though its tail and part of its body had rotted away. In a post that ended up gathering over 110,000 likes on Facebook, Kanya Tantiwiwatkul wrote […]
Colorado Lake Becomes Giant Fish Bowl after Dumped Goldfish Multiply by the Thousands
Releasing pet fish into a lake might sound like a kind thing to do, but in fact, it is quite the opposite. Teller Lake in Boulder, Colorado, is making headlines for a bizarre surge in its goldfish population, after someone apparently dumped three or four of them in its waters a couple of years ago. […]
China Hosts World’s First Ever Goldfish Beauty Pageant
3,000 goldfish from 14 different countries around the world competed for the title of “World Goldfish Queen” in the first ever International Goldfish Championship, hosted in Fuzhou, China’s Fujian Province. A warehouse full of thousands of big white bowls of water sure doesn’t sound like the beauty pageant events we’re normally used to, but that’s […]