Had a customer come into the store today wanting to buy three more goldfish for their 'tank' (unknown how big this tank is) and while I was catching said goldfish for them, the customer was like "This is the 4th batch we've gotten! We have one original goldfish that lives, but every time we try to give him a friend the others end up dying."
Which...it kinda sounds like the 'tank' is probably too small to hold four goldfish if all but one of them ends up dying. It sounds like the tank is only big enough to comfortably hold one goldfish.
But before I could ask further to see if I could help clarify the situation on why the other goldfish may keep dying,
The customer mentions that every time they buy fish it happens to be right before they go boating for the weekend.
Like the buy the fish the day before or just hours before they leave.
So they basically just dump the fish in their 'tank' and vanish for 4 days.
Honestly...it sounds kinda stressful to the fish....especially if the customer isn't leaving them vacation feeders or anything like that. Or if they are actually in a bowl instead of a tank, then the water probably gets too toxic too quickly for all four to do well.
And the original goldfish is used to the quality of the water, while th other three are not.
So it's not surprising that the fish would die that way.
And so I was like "Maybe don't buy the fish right before your vacation next time?"
To which they were like "Yah, that's what my spouse told me too."
But the customer was convinced that the original goldfish was actually just aggressive and killing the new fish whenever they would leave.
I doubt it.
More than likely it's water quality or the size of the tank or the amount of food being fed.
Because goldfish aren't usually aggressive to each other unless it's a male trying to breed with a female.
Hopefully this batch of goldfish lasts longer...but I think the customer was heading on another boating vacation soooo....we'll see how that goes for the fish.
-Sarnic Dirchi
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