Out at one of our local matsuri which is taking place at a huge
shrine. Here we see some kids trying their dab hand at Kingyo Sukui.
Players are given a hoop with some paper glued to it. When the paper
is dipped in the water to try to scoop the gold fish, the paper starts
to fall apart - they need to catch as many as they can before that
happens. Folks take home any fish that they catch in a plastic bag.
Wanted to try but not sure how long the fish live for. Any of you keep
fish at home? What do you do when they die? Fish n chips?
Kingyo Sukui in action below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkYTw0Cz0sM&;
今晩の祭りで金魚すくいのうまい子供達みっけ。
Closet Otaku
Ive gotten fish at a fair before. They only lived about 3 weeks then they started going belly up. When they die its down the toilet they go.
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Is that the average lifespan?
Closet Otaku
To be honest i dont know. I think the goldfish you get from fairs and stuff like that normally dont live very long. My friends got them before aswell and they havnt lived longer then a month. But you see goldfish from pet stores in restaurants and they live a long time. The goldfish in japan might live longer but theres only one way to find out.
Sorry for the long post lol
It would seem so. Every time my niece gets some from the fair, (seriously around 7-9 fish) they would all belly up within 2 weeks. I dont think the goldfish here are meant to last very long. We even put them in a fish bowl and fed them fish food.
ダメ人間, ひきこもり
should not be the case. goldfishes can last for longer time with proper care, including cleaning environment once in a while, and NOT feeding too much food. I've seen big-fat-round goldfishes before.
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I've gone with my dad a long time ago. Average life span the guy at the fair told us was 3 weeks. But with good care,(changing water, proper feeding, lots of love, our fish) lived to about a year until Christmas.
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TokyoCooney's goldfish Kenji lasted a long time, over a year
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Lol, love Cooney/Kenji, glad to see another fan! ^.^
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I had a few fish when I was younger, but when they passed I decided not to have anymore. I prefer something to cuddle XD
I've heard that prize-fish never really last long. Sometimes a few weeks, sometimes a few days, sometimes just a few hours. I guess it depends on the condition they were kept in before you win them.
Unfortunately, it seems that they don't get much care by the carnies/etc at a lot of places like here or in the US. Maybe Japan's different though, you should give it a shot, Danny. ^^ See how long you can make them last, make a poll, have a contest to see who gets closest XD
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But y'know, if festival fish die so quickly, wouldn't the festival vendors quickly go out of business? If all their fish keep dying even when no-one wins them...
Then again, festivals don't last very long, maybe a couple days to a week, so maybe it's irrelevant.
When our tropical fish die...they go join the big fishbowl. We have a convenient express portal in our washroom.
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I prefer something to cuddle too~ and it's better for you, playing with or petting your dog/cat, or whatever other pet you have, is therapeutic and good for you.
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Fish n Chips? I wonder you can eat a Gold fish....
LOL... Been wanted to keep fish in room after coming over to Japan due to loneliness. But still doesn't have enough budget to buy the aquariums etc.
Slave
The meat is real stringy. Tastes like squirrel.
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bit of batter, deep fried. easy~
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Golden Sushi?
Now if they put in baby Kois instead :P. Then again some of them will probably panic and jump.out.of.the.water.
Exploring worlds and ways of thought
I don't know about from festival stalls like this but, from a pet store I have had small fish like this in a bag of water for up to 1.25 hours before putting into a tank. And they did just fine once the temperature between the bag and fish tank equalize and popped them in. But don't drop the water from the bag into the tank.
When they die it depends. If they were social then a proper burial, if not social..."depending on species" it do be Davey Jones locker for the fishy.
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You could always put them in a fish bowl as long as you feed them with bread crumbs and change their water every week.
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Auntie Beeb has a story about a prize goldfish from a funfair living for 43 years:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/414114.stm
I sent Danny a link to the story of Hanako the 226 year old Koi on Facebook:
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=34936
I've had an electric yellow cichlid that lived for more than 12 years.
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Checked out those links you have, I say that's incredible!
We have an African cichlid that is tan and has chromatophores that make wide black vertical stripes on it's sides when it is mad at the other fishes for taking it's food. It's going on 5 now :D
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I had a goldfish that lived like 2 years one. It got pretty big. I won it at a fair.
Whoa thats cool !It definitely seems more fun to do it that way. Here, kids toss ping pong balls into cups with fish (which is too easy imo) and take home however many fish they got. My niece once took home 9 gold fish 0_0. But as for the lifespan of the fish, I didnt see any that lasted more than 2 weeks.
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I used to have fishes, those last like 2 months at most maybe 3 if you really really take care of them LOL.
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Well my family and I had fish in the house and if you kept taking care of them they can last for years. We still have fish but we moved them out to our Pond we build out in our backyard and they keep having babies and we lose a few every year but they just keep comming back each spring with more.
Student
lol this reminds me of Seto no Hanayome and shark fujishiro... but besides that I had goldfish before, I tired of maintaining them and stopped buying goldfishes.
Student
I wonder how the fishies feel about being scooped up and taken home?
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They taste delicious
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Personally I don't like the idea. Fish are not toys.
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Cute - that is what we were doing last weekend - Did you find Ponyo?
http://kimonobox.com/2009/09/can-you-find-ponyo-mitaka-matsuri/
I think we did!
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We had ponyo too!
Student
Looks like fun. Never tried fish scooping before but would love the chance to.
???Confused???
The longest I've had a gold fish was a few years...kinda sad when it died...never tried fish scooping...heard it was pretty hard...
prize fish usually last for only like 2 weeks. one time my friend's died the next day lol
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lol
Mad scientist
You do know you are supposed to feed them, right? ^^;
Seriously though it sounds like they have been exposed to something they shouldn't have been exposed to. I heard on the radio once that the police were looking for some guy. He had sold puppies (young dogs) and they lasted around that number of weeks as well. The police suspected that he had violated animal caring laws prior to sale and cheated by selling an expensive, yet faulty merchandise (this is the legal term for that happened).
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Some of those kids seem pretty good. They have a bunch in their bowls.
Guess
If you take care of it properly it should last years. Look at Kenji for example, Cooney's fish, he's still alive and kicking.
About that......
mm some could live for a good 5 years or more. it all comes down to how you keep them
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Have always wanted to try this, but sadly I don't believe there's any kingyo sukui in my neck of the woods.
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Awesome picture. There was a Kingyo Sukui at the Aki Matsuri Japanese Festival at the local community college last week. Would love to have some fish at home, but I highly doubt my abilities to keep them alive.