Making a Brass Cast of My Goldfish
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Published 2022-04-12
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All Comments (21)
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Cody, the modern day alchemist. Turning a goldfish into a brassfish.
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Imagining the POV of those fish when their friend returns from the grave in full brass
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If they do recognize that then it's really creepy. Imagine if this happens to you. You're sitting at work and one day Johnson's not there. The next day there's a solid brass version of Johnson.
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Have you considered creating a fossil? You could try to determine the ideal conditions for fossil creation with soft tissue preservation like in the Burgess Shale. Perhaps you could create a repository somewhere deep within your mine as a gift to our descendants in the far future.
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This can be interpreted 2 ways. The goldfish will either see him as a memorial statue, or an unkillable sparkly zombie that stares at them for the rest of their lives.
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Goldfish can live to about 10 years in captivity. Seeing the coloration of the fish, I think it was pretty healthy when it died.
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It is disturbing how casually Cody put his sleeved arm into the fish tank water
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Was really nostalgic watching this, I had a gold fish as a kid but moved to another country and had to give it to my neighbours, they took such good care of it, when I came back to visit as an adult they still had it, and it was huge. I was so surprised it was still alive as it had been nearly a decade. Gold fish are cool. Thanks Cody.
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I don't care what the haters say, immortalizing your deceased goldfish in brass made from melted bullet casings is badass. Sorry about your fish, Cody :(
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for those wondering why not gold, it would have cost over 200,000 USD to make a solid gold goldfish of that size (this accounted for the greater density of gold).
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“I will do the same thing I did for the mushrooms, but with a goldfish” that is incredible without context
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Gold Fish's Lab: Making a Brass Cast of My Human Cody. -- "He ended up to live up to around 40 years old in his small room, supporting the growth of CO2 in his environment where I had plants around. I think this will become a a plant growing project because my little sister wanted some humans. The final cast won't include the human, they will probably be removed and buried somewhere. etc"
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While I am familiar with the lost wax method of casting this is my first encounter with the "lost fish" process.
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First thing he thinks of when seeing his dead fish is to make a bronze cast of it. Legend
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Future tip, you definitely don't want to put brass objects in the tank especially if you have invertebrates. The copper and zinc can leach into the water if you have an acidic pH (e.g. if you use well water or rain water) and that's pretty toxic to some species, especially snails.
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this is really really sweet I can't imagine a better way to memorialize a fallen fish friend. I don't think keeping it in the tank would be morbid in the least either. Also seeing the old aquaponics bucket planter setup makes me so nostalgic for watching your videos back when I was in high school, I'm so glad you've stuck around all this time
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I half expected Cody to try and revive the fish in some evil doctor way lol. Jokes aside, as someone who keeps fish and has also lost some of them, this is a very cool way of remembering them!
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I always thought I heard Cody start his videos by saying “Hide everyone, it’s Cody’s lab”
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"It'll probably outlast me. . . unless somebody melts it down!" 10 years from now, on this very channel: Coby - "For this project, we're gonna need some brass! I thought I had plenty of brass ingots laying around, but apparently I was wrong! Fear not though! After searching around a bit, I found this solid brass casting I made years ago of one of my goldfish! Let's just drop this into the oven. . . "
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9 years is pretty good. I lost a Pajama Cardinal in 2020 that died just shy of 15 years old (at least, I bought him in 2006). It's crazy how long he was with me. You get attached to them. My wife painted a picture of him and it's beautiful.
