So what, I post here most often, and others come here to check things out too...so I thought I'd post it here.

This has GOT to be THe cutest thing I have EVER seen a fish do.

Here is the story http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000100.php about what is going on. It is truly unique and heart warming..what some people woudl do for their fish, and what some fish woudl do to cope with a bad hand dealt to them in life.

Here is a futher into the story http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000129.php about this same fish getting dropsy and being cured.

I am just truly amazed.

Here is the videa
http://ummcvideo02.mcit.med.umich.edu/comp.../fish/eggie.wmv

I can't stop watching it lol..I've had everyone in here to see this .

It's kinda sad, poor guy cant swim.

It's almost like his tail is paralyzed, he doesn't use it at all.

Small tank for 4 goldies... but they look healthy!

That black one is gorgeous...

What a determined little guy.

I read at the end of the story that Eggie died back in October.

Its not that his tail doesn't work..it's that his swim bladder forces him over upside down like that..so his tail is useless pretty much. (those type goldfish have soft, wispy fins anyways..watch how the other ones swim..they wiggle their bodies..not their tails to propel themselves thru the water)

If that isn't the biggest case of "I think I can, I think I can" I've ever seen..I dunno what is. Learning to use thsoe bubbles to get around, learning to use the PVC pipe to hold himself down so he could eat, learning to wedge himself between objects and the glass so he could rest and stay below the water surface...I'm sorry but that is just almost unbelievable that something so small..with a brain the size of an english pea..could fathom something like that...but then you see the video and have have to believe it.

Anyone who says fish aren't just as smart, loveable, or "pet-like" as dogs or cats...needs to read this story and watch this video...it just amazes me everytime I watch it lol.

I would have never believed, without seeing, that a goldfish would learn a behavior like that. You know, your always taught they're dumb...and it's quite obvious...that one is NOT dumb at all lol.

Yeah, it was sad that he died, but daggum he was a little fighter though.

This post has been edited by SRC: Feb 18 2005, 05:02 PM

Yep, he sure was.
A little hero in his own right.

LOL, The music is so catchy. Its a very sad story though, but im happy that he got to avoid the culling.

This post has been edited by KageBunshin: Feb 19 2005, 06:19 PM