Real Reason You Should Never Flush Your Goldfish Down the Toilet
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Flushing your dead goldfish down the toilet is doing more harm than you ever realized! Check out today's new video to find out why you should never flush a goldfish again! It could save the planet! Why are goldfish such a problem, you won't believe the real reason!
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This is crazy because my wife's goldfish she won at a fair died the other day, it lived 25 long years in a home aquarium, the maintenance was insane.
She must of really loved that fish.
Lol insane maintenance
What did the maintenance entail?
@@Breeestelle it was given a wheelchair
Carnie fish usually die within a week,you must have had Lots of maintenance.
I won a goldfish at the fair when I was around 7/8.
We didn't actually have anywhere to keep it but I really wanted one so my grandad agreed to keep it in his tank so I'd still get to see it because we visited a lot.
That fish lived for years and grew fairly large, it was wild 😂
Same mine grew to 6 inches but died soon after I turned 7
My kids fair fish lived like 6-7 years untill my nephew dumped a entire thing of food in the tank
My family always bought "feeder fish" every year to throw in our ponds. Out of 2 dozen every year only like 3-7 of them survived the season but two of those suckers lived 6 and 7 years old. They even survived a pump short-circuit a few yrs i that nearly killed my dad when he tried to reach in an pick one of them out. They only died a few years later when we had the coldest and longest winter our state ever saw and the pond froze almost completely solid. They died from lack of oxygen in the water that was still liquid. It was too deep for us to pick through but we were all sad when we saw their dead bodies after the thaw. Carp are strong.
So it sas like 10 pounds?
My kids keep killing theirs... i hate fairs...
"why you should never flush your pet goldfish"
TIS: idk but let's talk about Snakehead fish instead
hhahahahahahahaaaa
Except half the video was about goldfish...
To hit the 10min mark 😂
@@dudewheresmycar6318 yeah about goldfish, not much about flushing them tho
@@aaroncousins4750 He explained why you shouldn't flush them, and gave a perfectly indepth reason as to why not. I feel like we watched different videos.
I had a goldfish that survived for five years in its tank
Either I got lucky or the fish was healthier than other household fish. I dunno
Probably just your mom swapped it with a new one ;)
Honey, I need to tell you something about Bubbles and why it's name is in plural form.
The oldest living goldfish is over 40 years old and the average lifespan is around 15-20 years, just putting that out there because there's a common misconception that they have short lifespans
I had one live years too. We just cared well for our fish I guess. I got a large tank and mine grew and it was great!
I had a 55 gallon fresh water tank for about 8 years, and I had angel fish, puffer fish, shrimp, blue lobsters, a bunch of random tetras, and my favorite fish, a pleco (algae eater)
The puffer fish brought ich to my tank, which killed all but 1 angel fish, 2 tetra, and the algae eater (RIP Larry the Lobster). When I bought the algae eater it was about an inch long, and after 8 years, it was over 17 inches long and looked like a water dragon. Then I found him floating belly up in my tank, and he was the last of the fish, so I sold the tank after 8 years. :(
Also shoutout to r/aquariums for teaching me so much useful information
*"What happens when you flush a goldfish down the toilet?"*
The goldfish fckin dies!
I thought it was because it was already dead.
Wowza! Who woulda known!?
mIB II showed us what happens
Negative
It pains me to see that no one recognized that my comment was a reference to the "What happens if u push a baby into the water?" Tiktok.
As a huge aquarist myself, I love this video. Very informal and shows people the truth of goldfish. Goldfish aren’t necessarily a beginner fish and people don’t realize they need so much space.
Yeah I'm starting to like this channel a whole lot
In the 80s my uncle had a goldfish that grew to be the size of a large soup mug before he had to give it away to a friend
Really? That's interesting, I've never seen one that big
I've never heard of a goldfish growing that size. What type of fish was it?
I had one almost 13 in long when I was younger
In the 90s I won a goldfish at the fair and it literally died before I got to the car.
@@MisterRorschach90 you didn't shake the bag did you?
Correct title: Don’t throw a live goldfish into the lake.
@@alpha068 I read a post made by a pet store employee who absolutely refuses to sell fish or aquariums to people who don't demonstrate the knowledge to properly take care of the fish. This kind of thing should be law with a fine for violators, since improper care is cruel.
@@funkyfreak97 absolutely agree.
the real reason u should never flush your goldfish down the toilet is because its gonna make u cry wayy more
@@heyumnew1401 lol
@@heyumnew1401 …
Or you could just eat them
Yep
@@heyumnew1401 🤣
somewhere in America 15 goldfish have just been decapitated, and the count will grow. You sir are a true inspiration
Toilets do not lead to rivers and lakes, sewage goes to treatment plants where its filtered and treated and fish cannot reach waterways though them. As for fish size, I had a goldfish in a tropical tank and that thing grew like mad and also ate all the small fish in the tank but it eventually met its end when the freshwater blue lobster in the tank finally got hold of it
You have a point, but some sewage areas lead directly to rivers. Which in turn lead to oceans.
my houses plumbing system drains into the canal behind my house
I had a blue "lobster" then the Jack's started mating
Same point: don’t put a betta in a bowl without filtration and a heater also. They won’t live merely as long as they would if they had both.
Everytime you said native American fish it made me laugh because it made me imagine a bunch of fish talking and acting like my Rez cousins 😂
Eschia, cuzzin.
The Native ‘Fish’ on my Rez are always Drunk.
@@beautruex7012 ouch
🐟: Hey there!
🐠: Hello!
🐋:Hi!
🐠: I overheard the humans talking about us
🐟: I did too. They think we can't talk! Can you imagine?
We've only ever flushed dead fish. Never a live fish. That's just cruel.
Couldn't people fish for Gold fish though especially if they can get to be up to 10 pounds? They could sell them in Grocery Stores also.
They might not have a favorable flavor or might not digest well for us.
Apparently its because being a carp they have a muddy taste. So no reason not too just wont taste well. Maybe fertilizer?
Don't taste good, like at all.
They taste terrible but pets will eat em. Should make a organic petfood company from em
I'd buy a jumbo goldfish
I had a goldfish that lived for ten years before he became so big I couldn't clean the tank properly because he was just too difficult to deal with.
I let him go in the nearby Marriott hotels front pond display that had fish in it as well, the staff must have wondered where a giant goldfish appeared from.
Every once in awhile I would go there and see how he was doing
Is that legal
@@tiramisu7544 no
I’ve had plenty of goldfish in my life. Sometimes up to 10+ at a time. But I know for a fact I had one that lived for nearly 7 years. He was the biggest one so it was easy to point him out amongst the rest. Was very sad when he finally died 😔RIP Captain Tide
RIP I can relate to you.
Rest In Peace Captain Tide
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I had a beta named blue and when it died I couldn’t think straight and my grades went down as I cried for several weeks
F
You don't explain how flushing a fish into a sanitary sewage system that most commonly goes to a treatment plant for processing & filtering of solid waste allows for the fish to be in a waterway. It is illegal to directly dump a human waste system into a public creek, lake, wash or any other ways that holds or conveys fresh or salt water without treating to safe levels first.
Flushing a dead fish is usually for peace of mind for the little kid who owned the fish. I guess you could also just bury it and have a little funeral. Usually when I think of goldfish I think of it like a little kid's first pet
They’re good pets if your trying to teach your kids about death
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@@SkrapSF83 get em 2 male bettas
Ima go out on a limb and say none had watched this whole video. With that being said I bet the biggest problem with throwing fish down the toilet is there’s a whole fishilization in the sewers with growing hatred of the surface world for casting them to this forsaken land… one day they’ll rise and everyone will see… they’ll see…
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I watched the whole video 😂
I love how some infographic videos halfway through the content not even related to the title yet i still watch to the end
I've had my gold fish for about 12 yrs and it's about 7in long and it has a catfish to play with 11yrs old. The only fish I flush is a dead fish moral of the story only flush dead fish.
I burry my pets lol
@@Im.bad.at.naming I eat my dead pet fish lol
@@Mr.DISRESPECT F A T A S T I C
And use a hammer to remove all doubt. BLAM! Death confirmed. Now it's safe to flush.
@@Mr.DISRESPECT after I've caught and cleaned but never my pet fish. They live as long of a life that I can when they go belly up poke them they don't move safe for flushing.
Moral of the story: Don't flush your Goldfish down the toilet
Hey just so ya know Burnsville is in Minnesota ! Not Wisconsin 😁. Love this channel! Funny to see my home town mentioned lol!
I live right near Burnsville! Minnesota is amazing! 👍🏾 😁
Love Burnsville MN. And Lakeville MN
I can't believed Nicole and Richard Watterson almost ruined the entire U.S!
I got the reference
PFFFFT
I love fish so much and I miss my best friend, Franny; so so so much every day. She was a female koi betta (passed away due to old age) who I trained and she always made me smile and would kiss my finger if I was having a tough day- Before Franny, I would flush my aquarium shrimp and fish. I buried her. She was too special to me! She has a memorial rock in my room. If you love fish, please take care of them! They are living creatures too!!! Remember to give them room, provide a nice tank, clean their habitats, and use filters/heaters! Don't flush them...
Hold on, if flushing a fish down the toilet allows it to end up in a river or lake, does that mean the wastewater doesn't get treated and cleaned before releasing it "into the wild"? Is that an American thing?
@@sheeshkebabz6024 on top of that, 99.9999% of fish flushed are DEAD! 😂
@@sheeshkebabz6024 unless you don't live in town, like me. Then it is broken down in a septic tank.
The goldfish infestation likely were from people dumping their fish into a lake or waterway. Not by flushing it down a toilet.
I was on bored with everything until he said “walk in the water and paint your face with its blood” wtf😂
This is Burnsville, MN. No such city Burnsville, WI.
Woot woot I’m from Burnsville you see it in other cities too like Shakopee etc lol 😂
Jokes on you, my toilet goes into the ground when I flush. I can flush all the fish I want
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Don’t homes generally have septic pumps that would turn any goldfish, live or dead, into paste?
In a city and suburban areas most sewer lines run with just gravity and a slight gradient to get the sewage out of your home. Septic pumps are used in rural areas with no city sewage system in place. Pumps waste from the septic tanks to leaching pipes under ground.
@@craigs831 I’m on a city (suburb) sewer system and everything that makes its way to the wastewater system passes through a pump that grinds anything that gets flushed. I know this because ours was damaged by a large amount of paper towels that got flushed during a remodel
This is a good idea really, we need robust (capped & metered) power distro and fish grinding water treatment for a lay society
Who would flush a live goldfish? Usually when they're flushed it's because they're already dead.. this is extremely sad to me and because goldfish are amazing!! They're wonderful pets I should get one for my cat 🐈🖤 😂
Good idea. For the cat.
People probably do it cause they’re sick
@@ilikepointlessinternetargument how can you tell if they're sick?
@@jennawebb4225 they usually don't swim or move often and float. Its easy to notice the difference if your fish is healthy when you bought it.
@@jennawebb4225 lol what they said. It’s best to looks up the type of fish you have and see what the symptoms are
Mr bean: flushes golf fish
Gold fish: *literally survives*
Now that's cartoon logic!
im pretty sure most people only flush the fish if its dead so how on earth can a dead fish breed
They play dead
I found hundreds at the sewage plant. Even if any were alive which doesn't happen. They end up in the sludge box that goes to the landfill
@@brettcatterall7761 thank you brett i agree
Infrographics show has me asking questions about topics I'd never ask questions about. Love it.
Father: Son we have to prepare the Toilet funeral
Son: why 😔
Lol
3:35 animations made me think of feeding frenzy
My dad had goldfish for well over 10 years, but he took very good care of their 50 gal tank and had algae eaters to help clean the tank.
I got two goldfish my senior year of high school from a teacher after we used them for experiments (don’t worry, they weren’t harmed) and here we are a few years later, I’m a junior in college, and they’re about 8 inches long and I know will continue to get bigger. It’s crazy how big those tiny 25 cent fish get and this proves their growing potential is insane if you take care of them.
as a early teen I had several gold fishes at once, I had left camping and my sister was suppose to watch over them but didn't do when I got home some were dead the ones that survived be came carnivores
Wow..
And here I was looking at my aquarium and adoring my Goldfishes :D
? Goldfish are amazing , this video got many things wrong
I really like that u care about fish lives and u talk about that topic ❤...
So people are flushing live goldfish? I’ve only done it as a funeral when I was a kid
* loads shotgun with malicious intent *
Yup. Tenderized fish flush faster. Unless they're crawling across the lawn.
A hammer works too. Death confirmed.
I had a goldfish for 13 years. We named it Greatful Dead because my dad managed to save it from going belly-up
Kinda getting weird flashbacks of that episode from Dexter's Laboratory where Dexter flushed his Goldfish down the toilet
Next show: Ten reasons you shouldn't dump all your corpses in plastic bags in a shallow bay.
At my parents house where I grew up we had a couple goldfish in a small backyard pond (albeit far larger than a fishbowl) that was ran through a filtration pump. It was crazy seeing those goldfish grow, one of them is still alive today some 10 years later, the other had to be atleast 5 pounds when we pulled it out after it had died. Crazy seeing how big they can get!
I wonder how delicious a ten pound Goldfish would taste like?
Would it be like a bass or walleye, or probably more like a carp or catfish?
More like carp
Carp.
Amazing ! Like carp , my favorite
Snakehead are quite a delicacy in Asia.
Roast it till it becomes dry and blsck and it can be kept for a long time
It's used to make spicy mixture with chilli and other fermented fish or soy beans
You can heat uo roasted fish and eat it directly.
Most asian countries kinda survived off it for centuries
We have thousands of goldfish in our local ponds in northern Michigan. We've seen some the size of catfish (around 1 to 2 ft maximum) black ones,yellow,white,even a mixture of them all. It's really had a toll on our fishing and it's terrible.
Edit: we have snake heads in Michigan as well. Growing up my dad Always told me they were natural common fish. I had no idea about the asia thing..Jesus I've let way too many go.
8:45 is briliant.. 😂😂😂
I’ve had some goldfish I won from a fair 8 years ago, they are still alive in my grandparents pond
It's Burnsville, Minnesota. Typed while in my bedroom. Which is in Burnsville, MN. :D
The main real problem with the goldfish is they sell them at almost every bait shop and fisherman dump their bait in the water when they leave it's not pet fish
wrong
My goldfish lived 6 years and just recently died- was a fair fish and the other one we got from fair died next day from stress, the one before that lived 4 years (Beta) and my first goldfish lived 3 or 4 years too- I’m a pretty good fish mama when it comes to tanks 😊
In the canal I used to live near, there were always a lot of foot-long (or more) goldfish living in the water, though canals are not technically a natural watercourse, they do connect to them in some istances, so, the goldfish do get out eventually...
It's Burnsville, MN
I saw the same incident many years ago happenning in a cartoon show "Kick Buttowskii" where in 1 episode a goldfish was flushed and it grew to the size of a shark🤣 aahh! Brings back memories😄
Those were the better times 😔
@@zahragoharian ya🥺
Goldfish corpse goes BRRR
You should do a video about War of the worlds fighting machines vs the British army in 1898
I had Koi one time, now those are some quick growing fish, I bought them tiny from Walmart and petsmart and they outgrew the tank in less than 6 months, I had to send them off to someone who had a large pond setup.
The snake head sounds as if it's been evolving... Imagine what it can do in 100 years.
Funfact:In Japan there is a Koi karp that lived over 200 years and ist still alive. Because He lives in a Lake with Other Kois.:)
A Goldfish will not survive sewage treatment, these fish were either released by negligent pet owners or survivors of illegal bait use, no way possible a Goldfish is going to make it through a sewage treatment plant even if it survived the trip through the pipes.
I had a buddy who had a big goldfish that would rise to the top of the water when you plashed your finger in the tank and allow you to pet it, ... it was too cool, ...
Goldfish are so underestimated intelligence-wise
Wisconsinite here!! We have two gold fish from the fair from 10 years ago!!
If goldfish convert carbohydrates to alcohol as a replacement for needing oxygen then what about those handful of people who can do the same(convert carbs to ethanol)? 🤔
Auto brewery syndrome?
@@KekePalmer. yes
Snakehead fish dish In our region in india is so popular that it is not abundant anymore . In festive season, its one of the costliest fish.
But I flush down all kinds of freaky animals that I "conjure" up every morning. Depending on what I ate the night before 😁
Petition for Infographics to show both methods of measurement
This was an informative video, great job 👍👍
We had a goldfish growing up that ate all the other different type of fish in our tank. Except for the algae eater. But he was almost the size of a 10year olds fish. After he ate all the other fish. You could put your finger tip in the water and he would tried to nibble on it.
Aw
Nobody:
Infographics: *So anyway here's a 10 min video on flushing Goldfish.*
Burnsville Minnesota
I have a septic tank... So I don't think they are causing issues if I were to flush any 😂
may i ask how big of a tank or a aqauriam would be okay living conditions of a goldfish? how long can snakehead fish survive out of water? i'm curious
"Flushing your dead goldfish down the toilet is doing more harm than you ever realized!" How do the corpses come back to life? Are we just not making sure they're dead? They're playing fish-possum? Could people mitigate this by poking a presumptively deceased goldfish with a toothpick to make sure it's dead? Let's never discount the importance of making sure.
Use a hammer to remove all doubt. The kids know when it's all over.
Just bury it? FFS are peeps in America even to lazy to pick a shovel, stick it maybe 2/3 times into the ground, dump the fish, and close the hole?
Infographics answering the questions we needed answered
I flushed a cichlid convict down my toilet once. I was giving up my aquarium because I just couldn't get it right. Wherever it ended up hope you doing good buddy 🥲
Hey Infographics you didn’t say Illinois. I live in Illinois (southern Illinois) and I have seen them alive and dead. I have also caught them fishing. They are here
I just got out of high school when Infographics uploaded this video XD
Congratulations!!
as an Asian I can confirm, snakeheads can still flop around and jump off the table in fish markets even hours after catching it.
Also as an Asian, I can confirm that snakehead is tasty - I just ate a deep-fried snakehead for lunch.
Yuck
""""Someone who had accidentally found this channel and now addicted to this channel 💖❤💙"'""
Stop
Welcome to the dark side... You will never leave
Well a hidden gym I would say
Noone finds the channel on purpose so your comment is pretty dumb.
*visible confuse*
Wow. This is a very informative video, i love it. I hope people does watch this and get informed for the sake of local fishes and also the gold fishes. People should be responsible fish keepers
This is why its called the *Infographics* show
Next VIDEO idea: WHERE to hide gold bars. Or... Luckiest gold finds!
THE MINIMUM TANK SIZE FOR GOLDFISH IS 20 GALLONS PER FISH. Goldfish and betta fish are some of the most abused pets in the world. It's heartbreaking. If you can't provide a huge tank for them, please don't get one. Their care requirements are much more complicated than people think.
Day 11 of requesting infographics to cover: you vs Terror Billy
To put that in a nutshell, you will die a very gruesome death. I should know, I've played Wolfenstein before and I've seen how he killed Nazis in the most horrible ways possible.
If you mean Wolfenstein William J. "Terror Billy" blaskovich, then it would be more "How to survive Terror Billy".
@@mr.infinity0507 lol, yeah people would stand a very low chance
My mum: bye bye fishies down the toilet you go!
First
No one cares
No
*When you realise no one asked*
@@MrCommentGod *cares**
@@MrCommentGod when u like ur own comment moment
Can't be worse than turds getting flushed.
So, I have two goldfish in a 55 gal aquarium. There comet fish and can grow to 24" with regular water changes (twice a week) and changing there oversized filter regularly. These third hand fish have been in my care for 3 years and I was told they were 2 when I got them they have gone from about 2.5-3" to more like 8"now. So it's possible just not very easy. Plecos and lion fish are also a big problem
gold fish are NOT 1-2 inch fish, fancy goldfish can be up to 6-8 inches long and common gold fish can get even larger than that. They need much larger aquariums than most people realize, you would need at least a 29 gallon for one fancy gold fish at the bare minimum.
I'm a wastwater treatment operator. I work at a small to medium sized plant in Ontario, Canada, and I fkn guarantee you that if you flush a goldfish down the toilet, it's not going to survive the trip through a modern wastewater treatment process. Just watch the sewage treatment video on this very channel and tell me if you really think ANY FISH could survive a trip through a WWT process.
Unless your municipality sends it's sewage directly to the receiving body of water, goldfish flushing is not what's causing this problem.
In Wisconsin it's the same thing with gobies. I'm not sure if they're native to the bay of Green Bay and the great lakes, but they're not native to the regular lakes. Basically what the gobies do is eat the eggs of all the native fish.
I currently have a goldfish tank that I’ve been keeping for 6 years and my goldfish tank and I’ve got 3 in there and the tank is 6 foot bc it is built into the wall so the fish are about 13-17 inches so far and there only 6 years old and they are meant to keep growing for a long time
You need to make a video about fishtanks would help with the fish industry
I thought this was going to be about flushing dead goldfish lol.
um sorry my toilet instantly goes to a tank
Burnsville is in Minnesota, NOT Wisconsin. The fish that you are talking about was caught in Keller Lake . For many years.there are a lot of Goldfish infested lakes around the Twin Cities.
My 5th grade teacher had his goldfish for about 5 years or more he died about a month ago when I went to visit him, he loved the fish he had everything needed for a gold fish that why it grew a lot but he died because since it’s in his classroom he did not get food during the weekend
Ok so my cousin had a goldfish she lasted around 16 years in poor conditions for a goldfish, it was never bad but it was how a kid would have a tank
The only fish that eats the larger snakehead species are alligator gar although Americans killed them all pretty much