Originally published at: British man catches absolutely massive goldfish | Boing Boing
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Anyone else have the first thought it was a little kid’s pet?
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There used to be a small shoal of goldfish maybe half the size of that one for a couple of years downriver of the local (non-nuclear) power plant.
But then again goldfish are just carp with bling.
Possibly the oldest pet humans bred just for show and not to be somehow useful and/or food.
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I’m fishing for likes right now.
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i always thought that the rule of thumb that if you keep feeding them, they keep growing, was a myth. but i had no idea it was actually true. didn’t watch the video – anyone know how old this fish must’ve been?
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Carp also do not die of old age, only through calamity.
(Source: The Last Coin but also the other works of James Blaylock to a lesser degree)
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It also has to do with giving them room to grow. I know goldfish can get up to a foot in just a couple years if conditions are good. Though strictly this one is actually a koi…goldfish are related but don’t have barbels.
I imagine being at the top end of size this is probably near the high end of age too, which is usually about 4 or 5 decades. They’re fish that deserve a lot more respect than you tend to see.
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open them up and count the rings
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no need to “open it up”. just need to read the “rings” in the scales.
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My dad has some pretty big gold fish in his little pond in the back yard.
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My dad had some smallish carp in his back garden “pool”. The heron was very grateful.
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Poor Goldfish.
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My dad had to put a net over his when a heron fond his “fish in a barrel”.
Basically that is what my dad has, like a 4 foot in diameter plastic tub type pond. Not sure how deep it is, but they can survive the winter at the bottom with ice at the top.
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mum’s dear friend and neighbor back in Pasco had a koi pond.
had…
the raccoons ate the small ones and the heron and egrets got the others.
she keeps the pond with lillies and other plants, but no more fishies.
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I thought it was just lobsters
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I’ll bite.
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Did you watch the video? He let the fish go.
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I’m a softy; I can’t help but sympathize with the fish, who is minding their own business, until someone hooks them through their mouth and drags them out in to the air.
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I’m a cynic. Catch-and-release because finding a big enough toilet for a proper funeral would be ridiculous. 
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