My goldfish killed itself wtf ?!?!?

Question

Last night both my goldfish were in their plastic tank, yes i admit the water was very very extremely dirty. This morning i went to clean them out and i only saw one so i was guessing that one was in the little house. I checked the house it was not there i checked under the stones and it was not there. So i rang my mum asking her if it had died and she took it out but she said no so i looked on the floor round where the tank sits and the fish was behind a suitcase next to it all dried up. Did it kill itself ?.. The only thing is theres a little plastic edge round the side so it means it would of had to go to the middle and leap out.. What was it trying to do ?

Answer 1

get out of the unliveable water... i would of jumped out to. Clean that d**n tank or the other one might get ideas.

Answer 2

The sad truth is the little buggers will tend to jump out. They will do this whether the water is clean or not so don't blame yourself for that. You need to either cover the tank (leaving holes for air flow) or have the water level low enough so they cant make it over the top.... the margin needed will depend  upon the fish... my tropicals could jump a good 10cm...

Answer 3

well i have 4 goldfish currently my black one is pretty hyper but swims fast to the surface so it can find food. but no its nevr really happened to it.  do u have any siblings or older brother/sister angry at u? add details. well also maybe it just hated the water, but ive been told goldfish like a lil* murky water.

Answer 4

common goldfish and shubunkins will able to jump the fancy ones are less jumpers or can't due to bad water condition they will jump or left will little water they will also jump and sudden water change.

Answer 5

When any fish is in hideous atrocious water conditions its instinct is to jump out to try and find cleaner water.

Goldfish are hugely messy fish needing large (for a pair at least 30-40 gallons while small) tanks which are over filtered, well oxygenated and have a partial water change once a week with substrate vacuum.

Your lack of tank maintenance caused the fish to jump. The other is likely to do the same as the dirty conditions will contain large amounts of ammonia which burns the fish inside and out.

Answer 6

all fish jump but fantail goldfish cant he didnt mean to kill himself just messin around or he mightave though he saw food get a fantail next time there alot prettyer aswell