BDMao88 I didnt mean it as bragging how it lived that long, i had no idea how to keep fish, and i am more shocked at how ignorant my parents were to allow me to just take a fish home, drive to the nearest pet store and fill the cheapest bucket there with water, just to keep me happy for 5 minutes.
10 years seemed a lot for a goldfish, they are very resilient creatures and i understand that they are very "easy" pets to take home and they will please you for a little while, but unless there is a passion there for caring for them or collecting/breeding/photographing etc, they are inevitably going to get forgotten about, and because they dont chase a stick or sleep on the bed with you they are very hard to take seriously as a child, and i do regret taking the fish home because i wasnt really interested in looking after it, it just caught my eye at the time!
