A man has been telling the story of how he saved a goldfish that mysteriously appeared on his lawn.
Ben Beska took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to write a long post explaining your current situation. “So today I found a goldfish in my backyard grass. I think he was alive and I have no idea where he came from. There are no ponds nearby. So I took him inside…” his first post read, along with a photo of the goldfish sitting in the grass.
His post on “He was alive! I'm not very happy in an old freezer drawer though,” Beska's thread continued.
“Much happier in a hastily purchased real tank. Anyway, now I have a fish,” she showed the goldfish again, this time in a smaller tank.
However, despite what seemed to be a good move, many people ended up criticizing Beska in the post, explaining that goldfish need a larger tank or they won't grow properly, along with other fish care techniques you should have. consider.
“A tank needs time to function properly to process fish waste. You can buy bacteria to help speed up the process, but in the meantime make sure you do very frequent water changes with properly treated water to keep it alive,” one comment read.
“That's not a goldfish, that's a koi fish. You need a bigger tank or pond or it won't grow any more,” another comment said.
“You can remove the big, bushy plant to have more space. That guy will need at least a 20 gallon tank, that's the pond variety, so he won't be happy in a small space,” wrote a third commenter.
The fish ended up being given a name. “Meet Alice (aka Lazarus, aka The Fish Who Lived),” Beska wrote.
According to Beska, the name was created after a text message he sent to a friend about the animal was automatically corrected from “it's alive” to “it's Alice.”
Beska continued to respond to all the comments that told her about Alice's little tank with a separate post in X that said: “Repeat after me: a hastily purchased temporary tank is better for a goldfish than lying dead in the grass.”
“Surviving better than sitting in my back garden, right Eva?” he posted again in response to another negative comment. “You find a nearly dead goldfish in your yard and you tweet about saving its life and your replies are full of people saying YOU SHOULD HAVE PLANned THIS BETTER.”
Since sharing her story, people have started turning Beska's comments about fish into memes about how something so simple could upset as many people as it did.
One X user even created a separate account for the fish, with the username aliciabeska.
A post on the fish's account reads: “What a wild day, you booked one of those trips and ended up on some northerner's lawn? I would like a refund please.”
The independent has contacted Beska for comment.
