# Heard of this myth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153 "2007-07-10T03:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/21 "2007-07-11T00:38:28Z")
Never heard of it. There’s no mention of this myth on Snopes either. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/22 "2007-07-11T00:59:24Z")
I found something reasonably similar in a German version of those “useless fact” lists. > [@](#): > > Most tropical fish could survive in an aquarium filled with human blood. [Google-translated page](http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Flog.thedom.de%2Farchive%2F2004%2F02%2F25%2F255-unnutze-informationen&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/23 "2007-07-11T01:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=DustyButt] \*\* _(Man steps forward, and begins to roll up his sleeve.)_ \*\* _No, but you can take my blood._\*\* [/QUOTE] Of course, it wouldn’t have to be _human_ blood if someone wanted to bust the myth. Isn’t beef blood, pork blood, or most other sorts of mammalian blood similar enough to human blood, for purposes of sustaining goldfish respiration? ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/24 "2007-07-11T01:18:13Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Of course, it wouldn’t have to be _human_ blood if someone wanted to bust the myth. Isn’t beef blood, pork blood, or most other sorts of mammalian blood similar enough to human blood, for purposes of sustaining goldfish respiration? [/QUOTE] 10 points awarded to **Fiver** for leaving the box. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/25 "2007-07-11T02:18:14Z")
[QUOTE=kellner] I found something reasonably similar in a German version of those “useless fact” lists.[Google-translated page](http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Flog.thedom.de%2Farchive%2F2004%2F02%2F25%2F255-unnutze-informationen&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8) [/QUOTE] And I’ll bet you didn’t know this either: > [@](#): > > The first well-known Verhütungsmittel was crocodile muck. He was used before 2000 years with the old Egyptians. Thanks Google translation! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153/26 "2007-07-11T02:31:38Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] And I’ll bet you didn’t know this either: Thanks Google translation! 😛 [/QUOTE] You know, when I looked that up I was thinking it was going to mean “fertilizer” or something. Bwa, ha, ha! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-of-this-myth/411153.md?page=1)