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I usually enjoy watching Pet Keeping with Marc Morrone on tv when I am at home on Sunday morning. Today's show is a mixed blessing. He had Elmo on and was setting up a tank for Dorothy because she shouldn't be in a bowl. Put a betta in the bowl instead. However, he put the comment goldie in with fancies in a tank, and said that the rule is about one gallon of filtered water for each inch of goldfish.

I am glad that Heidi wasn't watching this with me. She would probably swat my arm in frustration.

lol a 10" carp in a 10g ya that wood look great n natural eh lol
carp dont belong in the fish tank

least it's outa a bowl...bet they didnt change it on elmos world though ].

If the show has any type of viewer comment line or email addy why dont you send in feedback?


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No Les, I'm glad that I wasn't here, and I'm glad that I didn't just happen to catch it on tv, because I do like that show also. Now maybe he should prephrase it by saying 1 inch of GROWN goldfish (though they are still little), and as they grow you must get bigger tanks....heck I don't know how he could have fixed it.... Les you said he kept putting more and more goldies in the 10 gallon---Arrrghhh!!! Ok, I'll go somewhere else now, and try to figure how it could have been better]:|...Heidi

Last edited by BBNP at 17-Jan-2005 19:57

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Simple, he could have put it in a nice big properly sized POND

*mutters about people that dont really care about all animals just some animals*...... and yes I do walk my spiders outside rather than smushing them thankyouverymuch.



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Haha, me too Babel. Poor little spideys just got lost, right (jerks biting my legs when I sleep...grrr!!).

Well, I'd just be happy they got it out of a bowl, really. I'm pretty tired of the goldfish-in-a-bowl idea.

Babel, it isn't the spiders who end up outside when there is one in my house, it is me, and usually I'm screaming "LESLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Save me!!!!" Or at her house, I'm outside with Little Bit, while Leslie kills it...:%) But, that's just me...Arachniphobic----->>>Heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Yeah, I watched that show a couple of months ago. I commented about it to my family (they were watching as well, or I would have changed the channel), and told them what the guy was doing wrong. It is really sad, how people are constantly being told that goldfish will survive in bowls. None of these mainstream sources of misinformation state the maximum size of goldfish, or mention that bowls are unsuitable with most fish. If people were to actually become more responsible and research their potential purchases, at least 50% (this is an underestimation) of aquarium fish deaths would be prevented.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Marc Morrone's a good guy. Write him a note, include a picture of Bruce, keep the tone pleasant, and he should come through.


I can't possibly dislike a guy with a thriving business who NEVER mentions it, or allows mention of it, on his show. There's not even a link to the business website from the show website! Quite a change from all those aquarium books that shill specific products on every page (and whose purported backer has run off dodging taxes in South America ).

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While I was checking out my LFS I saw a small boy (looked around 5 or 6) holding a fishbowl and saying 'Mum please I'll pay for the fish' next to a tank full of fantails labeled as 'Xtra Large Pond Fish'

At least Dorothy got moved out of the bowl, though.