If you flush a dead goldfish down the toilet, describe it's journey and where does it end up?.

We make sure fish are good and dead before we flush them. A fish flushed at our house has a short journey through the pipes before ending up in the septic tank. I don’t know how long a live fish would survive being flushed, but I would imagine it would not last long at all in the septic tank. Yuck!

^^^^^^ ewwwwwwwww poor fishie; I forgot about septic tanks. )-: I was hoping someone would say they wind up in the big, blue Pacific? but then they’d be eaten.

I would say the end up in some kind of Alice in Sewerland world. A world of dirty water and billions of mean looking bacteria. Poor little fishie, it would be like all the jelly fish trying to find Nemo!

Provided the home was connected to sewer lines instead of a septic tank, I’m going to hazard a guess that the end destination would be a waste water treatment facility, rather than the romantic big blue.

Also, I’m a little confused.. your question title says ‘dead goldfish’, but then in your details ask “could the goldfish still be alive when it arrives?” Zombie goldfish?

@ZEPHYRA LOL !! That was funny!

The fish had died and is floating in the fish bowl. It must embark on it’s final journey to the toilet for it’s dignified and honorable buriel by “sea”. Then through the sewers and into the sewage treatment plant and it will float amongst the turds. then filtered out and the water treated and finds its way into your drinking glass. If not dead it will mutate and exact revenge against your family! The size of a dog the fish will be!

It will flush away into the septic tank, be pushed off into the drain field, and what bits do not become fertilizer for my front lawn will rejoin the Florida Aquifer.

I’m not sure this is true for most of southern California, but everything we flush in my area turns up at a water treatment facility. We went on a field trip there as part of our freshman science class. It was smelly and miserable. I wouldn’t flush a goldfish. It just gives them more to filter. Can you go to an actual ocean and send-off dead goldfish?

You could just bury the fish. Then you already know what happens . . . The good news is that it doesn’t have to be a huge hole and your plants will love you for it.

It flaps its tiny wings and soars to Heaven, while its empty shell is best fed to kitty.

I feel rotten but I can’t stop laughing!