Taking your fish for a walk

blissed · 04-05-09 15:25:45

Mick Madden from England wrote:

I was looking at my goldfish going round in circles in their bowl looking bored silly so I made this to take them out and about and they love it.

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I think it's a good idea.

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ngaio · 05-05-09 01:07:43

All I can think about is how bowls are not healthy for goldfish and how fish get seasick in small, moving containers!

blissed · 05-05-09 01:12:36

Is that true, I don't know anything about keeping fish, I know one thing, if I did keep fish I wouldn't take them for a walk ha ha

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ngaio · 05-05-09 01:22:10

From keepinggoldfish.org

"Despite the famous image of keeping goldfish in a "goldfish bowl", this is actually a very bad way to care for a goldfish. The lack of space and/or filtration in a goldfish bowl reduces the oxygen supply and increases the chance of ammonia/nitrite poisening."

As for fish getting seasick... well that was actually something that, to be honest, I had not researched until just now! http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/492481

So maybe they'd be ok taken on a gentle stroll!

blissed · 05-05-09 01:47:11

Well then I think if you had a fresh water swimming pool where the water is cleaned by electrolysis instead of chlorine you could kind of reverse this and go swimming with them. I wonder if they'd interact with you and in a positive way, that could be really interesting. Their gonna poop in the same water tho BTW I'm sure regularly swimming in a chlorine pool is a good way to slowly poison yourself, I can't stand the smell of it, especially as swimming is good exercise and you take in large amounts of fumes. I'd love to find an electrically cleaned fresh pool or a river like the one in the ISM video 'Ritual' http://www.ishotmyself.com/public/view_ … g=ritual_1
In England their pretty much year round freezing cold, I think those kinds of places are one of the best things about Oz.

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ngaio · 06-05-09 04:21:52

Chlorine in a pool doesn't bug me so much the the whole... public pool full of kid snot thing... gaah!

I grew up in a town surrounded by beautiful big lakes, natural hot springs and we spent most summer holidays at the beach. Now that's a way to swim!

Arcticnick · 01-12-10 09:10:39

blissed wrote:

I'm sure regularly swimming in a chlorine pool is a good way to slowly poison yourself...
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I don't agree that you would slowly poison yourself. I am sure it would be rapid...within moments of entering the water. I think that most people are so swamped in chemicals and poisons that they just wouldn't notice any effect on their systems.

Just to split hairs for a moment; I guess that the moment a recommended safe dosage is exceeded something becomes toxic. These levels are determined more by politicians than health advisers which would make it a political decision and not one based on long term health.

I read somewhere that in a shower the hot water, as it is forced out of the shower nozzle, vaporises and the chlorine evaporates into a breathable gas.

A bit like showering in a second world war trench, in a gas attack, although with a slightly longer life expectancy.

Something like that anyway...

blissed · 01-12-10 16:19:37

Arcticnick wrote:

I read somewhere that in a shower the hot water, as it is forced out of the shower nozzle, vaporises and the chlorine evaporates into a breathable gas.

Ha ha you know I read that as well, and gave myself the benifit of any doubt and since then I stand in the bath and use a bowl of hot water and a jug as people do in India. I hog a shower, so that method uses less water because your water runs out

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