OK OK I'll be nice to the Goldfish.

Used to be that you won a goldfish at the fair, you just got a bowl, some water and fed it when you or your parents remembered. Seems that is not enough now.

Fish may not be smart enough to read a book, but fish vet Matt Landos says humans need to start treating their fish as being much smarter than previously thought. He has found quite an amazing array of things that really do debunk some of the old theories.

He has found that fish do possess a memory and they do possess a range of signs, physiological signs where their heart rate goes up in response to things, their hormone levels change in response to stresses.

Apparently there are bad outcomes for fish when they're stressed over a chronic period where they may come down with a bacterial infection.

Not sure if Australia is ready for some of the fruity fish protection legislation out of the EU, but it is not surprising, given the pandemic of depression in human society, that it would spread to some of our pets. I'll just have to be mean to our worms now.