The Goldfish who had a Big Brain

YES! This is about my goldfishies. ;D

I just felt like it. ;D



I was prepared and ready to go to bed when I glanced at the goldfish tank. In the murky water where the dirt at the bottom was kicked up, I saw a goldfish. The most unique one, I’d say. I admired him. I know he was just a goldfish - small, tiny, and forgetful - but he really meant something to me. No matter what, he kept trying. He pushed his head up toward the bright fluorescent light on the roof of the tank and wriggled his tail, propelling himself up.

I looked at the fish with hope. “Come on, Brainy, you can do it!” I said suddenly. He seemed to push even harder. I watched in awe as he wriggled his way through the constricting waters surrounding him. He was almost at the surface. I kept cheering him on, even though he probably couldn’t hear me through the thick glass.

His mouth stretched out for a food pellet at the top. Thunk! His soft, squishy, over-sized brain hit the glass and he drifted backwards, his attempt to get food failed. He tried again. Same thing happened, again and again.

Just as he was going to go for it once more, one of the more “normal” fish, Arrowhead, jumped in front of him and swallowed the pellet. It swam off without a care. He floated backwards once again from the collision. Bulgy and Blackeye stared at him with their big, bulging eyes as they floated toward the other food pellets. I wasn’t sure, but I thought that Brainy was crying, but I couldn’t see his eyes for they were shaded by the huge brain that shielded the top and sides of his head.

I could only feel sorry for the poor thing. I couldn’t do anything to help, just watch.

This is a story about a goldfish named Brainy. His name was given because of, well, his big brain. It was humongous. It was probably half the size of his body - and he was the biggest fish, so I’d say his brain would be the size of Cheeky - all piled up on his head. I’ve seen him before, doing his best to survive. Sometimes I see him at the bottom of the tank, swimming downward into the tank floor, trying to push his brain up so that he could still eat and breath, for his sight has been covered by his overgrown brain.

Most of my fish have defects. We have seven fish total. There’s Brainy, my favorite who has a big brain. There’s Tiny, who really isn’t that small, but he has a big brain as well, but not as big at Brainy’s. There’s Bulgy, the one who has eyes that bulge out. There’s Blackeye, the one who has bulging eyes that are black and a tail that is white. There’s Cheeky, he’s like Brainy in a sense. He has a big brain as well, but instead of piling on top, it goes all around his face and makes his cheeks big as well as his whole face. There’s Chubby, he’s like Cheeky except smaller and his cheeks are also smaller. Then there’s Arrowhead, the only normal one. He has a pointy head and his whole underside is white.

I have to say this: I absolutely love Brainy. He’s so courageous, he doesn’t give up, and he does his best to survive even though there’s certain death awaiting him in the near future. I love him for that. I love him because I know I could never possibly be as brave or hard working. He reminds me of a past goldfish we had before, Blacky, a completely black goldfish had two bulging eyes. Somehow, one of his eyes was taken off and thus he had only one eye left that was bulging out of his skull. The other eye seems to disappear, but we always saw that scar left. He also was like Brainy; he never gave up even when death awaited him.

I know, I know, they’re just fish. Well, to you maybe, but not me. I believe these fish are real people. I believe they think, talk, feel, cry, and rejoice. I believe that. I believe that, and because of it, I believe that that’s how Brainy gave me hope. Brainy, the goldfish who had a big brain.

Awww. Sweet.... ;D

I think I under-exagerated the size of his head. :l

Really? Wow, then his head must be huuuuuuuuuuuuge.
Do you have a picture?

No.

Actually, his head is roughly the size of Chubby, but a bit bigger, so I'd say the brain is the size of Cheeky.

Chubby is the smallest one there and Brainy's brain is bigger than him. I actually find that amusing.

Chubby cannot even match the size of Brainy's brain! :O

Woooowwww... Okay. He must have a biiiig brain.

I'm pretty sure you saw him when you came over to my house. :l

I'll try getting a picture of him later. Probably with Chubby.

I dun remember the fish much though. I just remember that they were all awesomesauce.

They all had defects. ;D

ORLY? Cool.

Well, except for Arrowhead.

He/She's normal.

I call all of our fishies a he.

He's normal.

I find it funny only our goldfish have names.

We have this other humongous tank that's like, twice the size of the goldfish tank and it has lots of fishies and only the youngest baby one has a name. His name is Tiny.

Yeah, I know, we have two Tinys.

Tinyyyyy. TINY TINY.

They're in different tanks so we don't care.

Ahh. Mmk.

I can still see other tiny's insides. Creepy. :O

...Woah.

I know. :O

How did that happen?

It's a newborn. It's still super duper tiny even though it's half a year old since it can't come up and eat to be big. It's still newborn so it's skin/scales are transparent and you can see it's insides.

Sweeeet.

It's cool. I'd take a picture but he rarely comes out long enough to take one.