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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How do they stop the little parachutes from sliding off?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just make sure the strap between the legs is tight enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Is there a safe word?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago

From another similar post, introducing fish to a large body of water has to be done like this or else the fish don't understand or acclimate properly and die. It's a slap to the noggin like "hey wakey wakey, go find some algae to nibble on"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm guessing only a few need to survive

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

Gotta weed out the weak ones with the fall.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

People ITT must've forgotten about the salmon cannon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

I have never seen this and thank you for sharing it because good god I needed it.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what the survival rate is for these fishes

[–] [email protected] 167 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

According to the links in this post It's 95%-99% survival.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I wonder what the "fuck that hurt" rate is for these fishes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago

...that sounds to me like "survive the fall" more than "survive the week"

[–] [email protected] 59 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

Then why can't I yeet a bunch of goldfish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

You certainly can!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago

Who's stopping you?

MAKE your DREAMS come TRUE

[–] [email protected] 109 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

One of the bigger reasons has to do with the square cube law - as the size of something increases, surface area increases by a factor of 2 but mass increases by a factor of 3, so little fishes have a surface area-to-mass ratio that is quite a bit higher than a larger fish, and they're more susceptible to abrupt changes in temperature.

Kinda like how an ice cube will melt a lot faster than a big slab of ice, the core temperature of some small fish like a goldfish is gonna change more rapidly than the core temperature of a big fish like a trout so they tend to be a lot more finnicky in regard to significant and instantaneous changes to temperature and stuff. A larger fish might shrug off a significant change because it affects them more slowly, but that might be a totally wild an overwhelming experience for a little fish to go through

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I'm confused though. Don't people use this to talk about how small things like bugs can fall from a large height and be uninjured, but large things like a human or elephant will be injured if falling from a height? I feel like what you're saying is backwards to what the internet has told me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

The person you replied to only spoke about sudden change in temperature, not falling from height.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

No, it's all the same in that regard - a ladybug will have a far higher surface area to volume/mass, and that affects terminal velocity.

Ladybug might have 10 square millimeters and weigh .05 grams, 200 square millimeters per gram

Elephant might have 15 square meters and weigh 5000 kilograms. 15 million square millimeters and 5 million grams, so 3 square millimeters per gram

But the elephant in the room (slaps knee) is momentum.

Let's say, hypothetically, we shove a ladybug and an elephant off a 125m cliff and pretend they both have a ridiculously high terminal velocity. That's enough for them to reach 50 meters per second or 180kph. .05 gram ladybug's momentum would be an infinitessimally small 0.0025 kg·m/s, meanwhile the elephant is at 250000 kg·m/s, and the elephant explodes.

The thing that makes the ladybug survive the fall (ridiculously low mass relative to surface area) is the same thing that would make a ladybug freeze in minutes if you tossed it in a freezer. Conversely, elephant wouldn't really be bothered by a couple minutes in a freezer.

It's that rapid change in internal body temperature that stresses smaller fish out, dumping them in water that is much colder or warmer than them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It ain't the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop........

[–] [email protected] 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The math actually works, and is quite simple. Just assume the fish is a sphere

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

As opposed to the high friction vacuums we are used to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

IMMA YEET THEM SO FAR

[–] [email protected] 63 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And in a similar but completely different way, the fish are being added to massive bodies of water. Home aquariums are minute in comparison, so they can't balance out chemical swings as easily and are much more prone to higher levels of nitrites and other toxic chemicals. The larger the body of water, the more stable the water quality.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

So what I hear you saying is I need a bigger aquarium...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago

You always need a bigger aquarium

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

something i love about Lemmy is that on the drop of a hat someone is willing to calculate the "surface area to fish ratio"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Problem is, you almost never know if that's actually true or complete bullshit.

It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"But it has rained, hasn't it?" Smug look

An example of why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

[–] Cethin 7 points 16 hours ago

The 70s was a wild time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

You can yeet goldfish. Carp are stupid tough. It's the tropical fish we often keep that are kinda wimpy. Also, they're not coming from a super healthy environment (the store) to our tanks.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

The famous flying fish.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I'm gonna keep that typo. 😈

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I did a bombs awat last night after taco bell.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure I can let you get awat with that.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Bombs Awash

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

I mean, that’s just Utah… Good chance it’s not up to speed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Fishmonger bros be down there with a net

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

While these fish would be easy to catch at that time, they will taste like shit. Once they've spent some time eating something other than pellet food they taste a lot better.

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