Why You Shouldn’t Dump Your Pets: The recently caught record-breaking giant goldfish weighs up to 50kg.

A record-breaking goldfish has been caught in Champagne, France, where an angler dragged a 50-kilogram specimen on shore.

This puny specimen was half the weight of record-breaker just caught in France. Image credit: KoiQuestion, via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Carp fishery BlueWater Lakes released the behemoth, known as The Carrot, 20 years ago and it has since grown to be one of the largest in the world.

It is double the size of the fish you see above.

Look at this.

The many different breeds of goldfish are all hardy, golden types of domesticated carp, coming in all kinds of curious color arrangements. They are sometimes hybridized with other fish like koi, as was the case for The Carrot.