My least favorite part of this whole thing is the huge number of comments on the original tweet asking people not to release goldfish in public waters that boil down to “well where are we supposed to release them?” uhhh, they’re pets. Don’t release them. Would you ask that of a dog or a cat? NO! They’re not wild animals, never release them.
We ended up with a tank full of gold fish. We used them to clean up some mosquito larvae filled water as a fun thing for the kids, and were planning on putting them in my parent’s outdoor pond. However, it came out that my parents had lost several batches of fish trying to get them to live in the pond, and at that point we had named the fish… so no chance of putting them in a bad environment where they were guaranteed to die. Now they’re quite big and beautiful and healthy in a tank that is way too much work. Man they’re messy fish.
