Pet fish survive 134 days with no food
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China.org.cn, July 28, 2011
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Two goldfish survived in New Zealand for four months without food or electricity to power their tank. [PA] |
Two goldfish have become the smallest and hardiest survivors of the devastating February earthquake in Christchurch that killed 181 people, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The fish, named Shaggy and Daphne after characters from the animated television show Scooby Doo, spent four and a half months – 134 days – trapped in their tank in the city’s off-limits downtown without anyone to feed them or even any electricity to power their tank filter before they were discovered this month and rescued.
Luckily for the fish, they lived in a large 26-gallon tank and may have gleaned some nutrition from eating algae growing on the tank's rocks and walls.
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