i once had a classmate who complained that her pet fish kept dying. she said that she kept them in a tank with enough space and clean water and yet they went belly up in a few days. so i asked her "what kind of fish food do you feed them?" and she looked surprised and confused. she answered, "...fish food? fish need food?" turns out she wasn't feeding them AT ALL because for one reason or another, she assumed they only needed water to survive
I totally understand a really young kid just learning about filter feeding or algae eating animals (corals, some whales, snails, bottom feeders, etc.), or some really young kid learning about fish breathing with gills and assuming they also got food that way, but honestly anyone over the age of 8 at the very most if they just never learned somehow I find it extremely difficult to believe it’s not stupidity. And I don’t mean in a so called “low IQ” type of way, but the people who genuinely don’t care to learn anything new or use critical thinking at all. How is common sense seemingly becoming rarer?
@@dracodracarys2339 I.... And the parents? They knew they had fish I'm sure that had fish growing up too? I would assume?. No food? Remember everyone who may see this Fish needs water to live.. Fish needs food to survive.. Some Fish needs shelter to hide. Fish needs oxygen current to breathe Fish needs un-chlorinated water to live in Fish needs proper filtering and water quality. Most importantly. Don't house fish together that are not in the same category of water quality, trust me, fish can die really fast when they're not in the right eco nutrients System. I learned while trying to house betas with other fish that I didn't know required a whole different eco system because all it had was fresh water....
When I was getting into fish as an adult, my mom had kept a betta in a half gallon bowl hanging on the wall for years. She did take care of it, but I mean, no heater or filter, but she did frequent 100% water changes. What I ended up doing was upgraded her tank to a 2.5 gallons (filtered and heated of course). A couple years ago i upgraded her to a 5 for Christmas, and then last year I dirted it and planted it for her. She loves fish and she loves her little tank. I do take care of water changes for her from time to time because shes still new to a gravel vac still. Sometimes when you see someone who really does care, helping to educate them and set them up in the right direction can make a huge difference for an animal.
This is true! I know I'm a year late but my mom's the same way. Some people are just not aware cuz the information wasn't there or different. And Google doset often come to everyone's mind espeically the older generations . My mom has a betta she loves and he's in a smaller tank , a 2.5 but it's planted with a snail and filter and heater. But it took her lots of learning, I want to get her a 5 gallon cube and plant it for her :) Thanks for sharing this❤
What’s even more unbelievable to me is how there isn’t any consequences for it. I know some places do, but where I live there are absolutely no laws regarding fish welfare. None. They have laws for dogs, cats, birds, “livestock,” and animals for research, but absolutely none for fish. I could buy a fish right now, throw it, smash it, stab it, pull it’s scales out, and it’s 100% completely legal. It’s insane. Like fish aren’t sentient beings because they’re small?
It’s crazy how people think (and sometimes can) get away with treating their animals and pets so horribly. Just because it’s not a dog or a cat it does not mean you can treat it like crap!
Yeah, i once saw i video of someone editing a video with a trollface and it was a bunch of dogs killing a snake, and the worst part was, almost all the comments were saying they hate snakes and how it deserved it, the snake did nothing to the dogs, i saw 2 comments that said it was wrong, and one of them was mine, people see mammals and birds as animals, but they see everything else as animatronics, people need to learn all of them are animals, and they help the enviroment more than we ever will
@@agrilledsandwich2745 a lot of people don't even see birds as emotional creatures worthy of care. Even rodents are commonly neglected in the USA (the #1 country in animal abuse👏).
4:20 this is mostly nicks fault. Stephen Hillenburg (The Creator) was a marine biologist I think and loved fish. He mostly wanted to educate kids about fish and water pollution but nickelodeon gave the show a bad rep.
Yeah I was gonna say. I love Spongebob so much and Hillenburg truly had a passion for marine life. The Spongebob movie DVD had a lot of educational intent about marine life that Hillenburg made alongside Jean-Michel Cousteau. It taught me a lot about the ocean when I saw it. But Nickelodeon just sees money.
My landlord has the saddest fish tank in our laundry room, and I've been trying to scrounge up the materials to upgrade them. There's four, like, 15cm goldfish in a 10 gallon. Unfortunately, I am not a landlord, I am a tenant and therefore, poor, so it's taking a while. I finally got some free filters off of Kijiji, and I had found a nice 40 gallon (anything bigger is totally out of my price range and it's really not my job), but then I had a covid scare and missed it. :(
You could ask your landlord if you can help him adopt out the goldfish. And maybe offer to restock the tank with a proper set of fish. That may be cheaper/easier for you to do.
@@blindopossum7913 Hmm, yes, that does seem wiser, but my landlord is about 1000 years old, I don't enjoy talking to him, and I am a fundamentally petty person XD And I kind of think it would just be funny to spring a fish tank upgrade on him.
3:46 that's 100% a water container that home coffee machines have. I have on of those and it looks IDENTICAL, as much as it hurts to believe. Also most bowls that people normally have to fishes could only have the purpose of like a small decoration INSIDE an actual tank, which is just sad.
Saw two young kids in countrymax today, there was a display pond with goldfish and they were putting their hands in and trying to grab the fish while their dad was in the bathroom. Great idea to leave your kids unattended, nice parenting.
Soda’s back to brighten our days. I agree with everything you say. People think fish deserve different care(less care)than from a dog, which is not true at all. Fish are very hard to take care of, and people think they’re starter pets, which is obviously not true. Keep up the work, Soda!!
well i would still say a dog would be harder to take care of but the fish need better care then the ones in the vid thats for sure (dogs only harder then fish cuz of walks and how much training they need just to function in a persons home but alot of the saltwater fish are pretty damn hard to take care of theyre so hard that my mother wouldnt let me get saltwater i find fancy goldfish dont need as many gallons as they say they do (for the first year of their lives) but goldfish certainly cant go in fish bowls they say 1 inch of fish needs 1 gallon atleast and yeah that sounds about right and most fancy goldfish ive seen get about 6 inchs when older so 10 gallons would be the minimum for 1 fancy goldfish i would say...well they say 30 gallons for a common but common get double the size of a fancy one so i would think its about 15 gallon for the fancies not 20 like they say so im kinda in the middle im not the terrible fish owners on tik tok or certain others butttt im not no fish youtuber im in the middle the fish get okish caare but not great i keep atleast a few hiding spots and keep water clean and all that but when they get older next year 3for each goldfish will get atleast 10 gallons each for fancy goldfish not exactly good enough for youtubers but better then these weird tik tok people
In one of our high-school science classes there was a long long low height tank with a few I believe saltwater fish, but it was decorated sort of like what a mix if a tidewater zone and realistic if not real items. It could of been fresh, but that was so long ago but I do know it looked realistic to natural settings and those fish were super nice looking and happy. Edit* Also forgot my zoology class which was at my senior year in what once what was one of my English classrooms. She had a pixie frog, a red ear slider, two leopard geckos and two iguanas, one being a recent rescue and *massive* he was on treatments for mouth rot from his old home.
I recently got into a fight with a little girl because she said I knew nothing abt animals while she had dangerous things in with three goldfish,and a glow fish,and the worst part was it was a 10 gallon tank
I remember when I visited my friends house a few years ago, she had one of those wall bowl aquarium things with I think a beta fish in it. It was literally just a plain tank, no filter, they didn’t even try to give the fish a good life. She told me she keeps having to replace her fish because they keep dying really quickly, I wonder why!
Cockatiel reddit is usually a good place where people share their happy and healthy birds, but very often newbies share pics in awful conditions and get a lot of good advice Sometimes they get dragged for it if they insist on remaining ignorant 😅
Oh yeah I had covid (maybe a month ago?) and it totally sucked, I’m sorry to hear you got it so close to your birthday :( I was in the same boat with being fully vaxxed as well, I think the worst part was the sore skin and sore joints, congestion/ears being popped out all the time, and the coughing. Thankfully nothing life threatening and none of the symptoms of loss of smell or taste for more than 20 days, I hope yours is also not super dangerous and you feel better soon. Great and entertaining video like ya do with all of them. I always enjoy your personality and the way you go about speaking on situations that a lot of people are unable to calmly and rationally go about (also the birds and fish. They’re all so cute). Take your time with getting better however long that takes, I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say we’d much rather have you happy and enjoying creating content than sick and/or unhappy
Hope you have a fast recovery! I know you said you won’t be doing for a while (which is completely understandable and normal), but when you do come back, I suggest making a video on “low environmental impact” tanks. What they do, how zero waist tanks aren’t as good as they sound, and how both takes compare against each other.
Speaking of, Choice Hotels has an advertisement on TV here in the US of a kid 'travelling' with his goldfish in a bowl of very cloudy water and taking it everywhere. Ugh.
I am extremely disappointed in the Spongebob tank because the creator of the series (Stephen Hillenburg) was a Marine Biologist before he went into animation!
This isn't anything bad but I'd just like to talk about something that makes me very happy. A pet shop in my country has a rule of where if you don't get the supplies from that shop and you're buying an animal from them they ask to check your enclosure for your animal to make sure they're going to a safe home. It makes me very happy that the manager there is careful with who they're selling to
Just a beginners opinion, it should be harder to get fish for the general public. You should have to have proof of tank size or something along those lines just so people can’t get any fish just on a whim.
At my local pet shop you have to bring in a sample of your water so they can test the quality. Only once they have confirmed that your water is acceptable for fish will they let you buy one. Also the staff are really friendly and have good fish keeping advice.
Honestly yeah. Sadly you’d still get people purchasing from backyard breeder type people or online shops which are extremely difficult to police- but it would definitely help to bring down the number of irresponsible pet owners. Really it should be like that with every pet though. A good way to do it would be for the online store or the in-person store to 1. Put the animal on hold for a (predetermined)% down payment which would be deducted from the final price if the animal is bought, given back if the husbandry conditions aren’t met, or kept by the store if the person’s “hold” on that animal/place in a possible que for it times out without a called in cancellation so the store’s time and money isn’t wasted as much 2. The person who wants to purchase the animal is given a piece of paper with a unique QR code printed out, which they then include in a picture of their tank/enclosure/food etc. so the store can verify they took the picture pretty well 3. The person comes back with proof photos of a good habitat, and is either approved and buys the animal or is denied and given the payment back I know it’s not very realistic, but even how hard is it to ask for a quick proof of enclosure they can look at lol
Love when people say something like _"well yeah my fish died but it lived in these conditions for three whole years so it cant be that I'm a bad owner"_ like no idiot, you're giving yourself a lot of credit for your fish "living" when in reality that fish spent those 3 years dying.
Its been difficult to get the proper things needed for my tank because my parents believe that "its just a fish, its fine." Luckily I think everything is sorted out now. Remember that fish have feelings too!
about schools and bad tanks: in grade one, i remember we had a beta in the classroom that lived in the tiniest bowl. fully bare, got really dirty often and wasn’t cleaned enough. one day they told us the fish was sleeping because it was on its back
I will admit that I currently have 1 Danio in a 5 gallon tank. My mum bought me the tank 2 and a half years ago for Christmas because she knew the sound of water and watching fish swim helped my depression. After we had set up and correctly cycled the tank, the guy at the pet shop told us (incorrectly, of course) that it was fine to put 7 fish in this tank. I quickly learned that almost everything that guy said was total lies, including that having 3 danios and 4 platies in a 5 gallon tank was a good idea, getting a ghost shrimp would help my water quality, and that the shrimp was harmless (it wasn't, it turned out to be a carnivorous shrimp and killed all but 1 of my platies before I could separate them). So now, more than 2 years later, only one of my fish is still alive. I keep it's tank well heated, filtered and clean to make it comfortable for him. I will not be buying any more fish until I can get a bigger, better tank (probably after my danio died sadly) when I move out of my parents house. And I will never be going back to that pet shop
yeah, i was told the same thing and i was keeping 4 glofish danios in a 5 gallon, 3 of them died and now i have 1 danio and 1 veiltail betta (female) .
Ahhh! I didn’t know you were 20? Happy birthday Soda and get well soon! We all love your vids! And also try to have fun while on your “break” even if you’re sick 😅 ❤️
Oh look,lets put in a VERY VERy small “tank” without filter and lets put a little patrick and uhm bob’s house and for last , pink neon stones to make it look SUPER NATURAL
Where I live gets brutally cold in winter, I stopped having fish and gave away my tank after my furnace broke and my fish froze .....I have a dog now (if heat goes out he can climb in my bed to stay warm and he steals my blanket)
I saw a Pet Valu ad today. It was of this “Betta Puzzle Tank” thing. Basically u get a bunch of em and u can connect them like a puzzle. It’s was half a gallon. A pet store recommended this.. which honestly doesn’t even surprise me anymore.
I got REALLY lucky with fish care. My dad grew up with fish and was an angelfish breeder for a long time. He also had a friend that bred Discus as well. Growing up with a father who had fish and knew how to care for them made SURE I didn't make mistakes with getting fish as BAD as any of these videos. Of course I made the mistake with cycling my tank and my cycle crashed a few times but I never did the whole putting the animal in too small a tank and with zero filtration. Even as a kid my dad had nice tanks set up with everything for any fish we got. I was lucky to have someone who had the knowledge around me from young on.
For the first tank the black fish are called Cidllings (I hope I spelled that right) apparently they require a 10 gallon tank. (I only know this because my school has them)
We have those fairs where you can catch fish as well, only they're fake fish and once you catch enough of them, you just get a prize. I've never seen live fish used at a place like that before, and I'm hoping it's just illegal where I live
Pet stores near me sell fish bowls with notes that say “these are not suitable for fish”but still don’t sell the bowls. And when you try to buy them for fish they won’t sell it to you
I was the one who posted the cat in the vase! It’s just awful. Hope you feel better soon. I had Covid about a month ago and felt awful but my mum had barely any symptoms. Think it’s really depends on the person 😊
This just reminds me of the tank at my highschool. I would always go sit next to it in the library, and every time, I’d look in this little alcove under a rock. Under it was a dead fish, who I watched over time turn from slightly fishlike to completely white skeleton. I told someone about it, but it stayed.
god... that spongebob tank reminds me of a group of people in college, who all had tanks that size, with a divider, so they could cram two bettas (one on either side) and they could barely move and the water was like.. stinking and green after a day. those poor fish :(
Alive & thriving *are not the same thing*!!! I wish people would just *do* - *their* - *research*! Appreciate you Soda for continuing to put it out there that this care is not acceptable. Especially when this kind of care is common & especially where I am in the US.
thesedays its been pretty hard to trust research cuz alotttt of stuff i look online for is like oh this or that is good then i try to do it and its like uhhhh didnt work or ends up causing me 10x more work or money i do admit the fish in these vids soda pets watchs needs better care tho like 4 goldfish in a 5 gallon tank uhh no not even good enough for 1 goldfish not even a fancy about 10 gallons is bare bare minimum for a goldfish (thats not recommended even but atleast they would have enough room to swim and be okish for 1 goldfish in 10 gallons or atleast about 5-6 for goldfish under a year alot of what people say is confusing honestly but 3 gallons minimum for a betta i would say 10 gallons for a fancy goldfish maybe and about 3 guppies and 7 tetra in a 20 gallon thats kinda my thing tho im always in the middle not terrible not all that great but middle get the job done but not do great
Me and my family used to have a very small turtle tank for two turtles (now in a big above ground pond), but there were times where the filter would explode and my entire room was flooded 😬
I had a beta in a bowl (I believe it was 2-3 gallons?) and had a heater, some planets to hide in and gravel. I changed the water once a week and such. I moved him to a 10th all on tank after 6-7 ish months of having him. He seemed happier
I'm sick too. Can't breathe, and barely talk because of a sore throat. I wish you well, and if you need a break, feel free to take your time. You are an amazing person who is helping animals and deserve some self care.
I have one of those wall aquariums, but I’ve never put a fish in it. Rn mine has my moss ball. It was in a tank with a crawfish, but the crawfish was shredding the moss ball so I rescued Mr. Moss and put him in one of those wall bubbles lol
My friend has a goldfish from a carnaval, she puts it in an extremely small tank, with no buddy. The fish is blind on one eye and has jumped out of its tank multiple times. Ive tried to tell her multiple times to give it more space but he insists her fish is happy and that their friend already have a friend, meaning themself
Happy birthday for the coming day! Hopefully you and your family recover quickly. Sad to see how many people keep their goldfish in these types of conditions, there’s a lot of misconceptions on what goldfish care should look like
the dentists office here had a fish tank. it was there for 20 years and it looked stunning. and then covid happened and the receptionist who took care of the tank couldn't come to work for like a year. now the tank looks gross, the fish died because nobody cared enough to feed them. its just a couple of plants that look like a rotten salad.
If your friend or family has bad fish care and they refuse to make any changes to the setup, think about this: Would you stop associating with someone if they kept their pet dog in a tiny cage its entire life, no toys, bad food, dirty water, never cleaning the waste, while dismissing any and all critique about their animal neglect and abuse? Dogs and fish are different pets, but fish are still alive and have awareness. It's okay to reevaluate a person based on their pet care- it says a lot about true character.
You'd be surprised the dumb things american pet stores do. My girlfriend's niece got a macaw that was a rescue from a abusive pet store he was removed from the store and put in a better place that actually cared about the animals and she got a hold of him and gave him a better life and home.
I found a similar tank as the 3 tank together one at my grandma's house where she keeps fish very well but I had to educate her on the small tank regulations now because she wasn't aware that those tanks for betas was a problem
It's amazing the misconception ppl have regarding fish.. goldfish and bettas in particular.. when you were talking about people just don't care.. that's exactly how a lot of pet store workers feel when it comes to customers.. unfortunately you can try to educate them until you are blue in the face but at the end of the day they are gonna do what they want to do.. and a lot of times that means going to other stores until they get their way
I also hate that when my twin and I each got a beta fish,we kept them in the containers,and picked them up a bunch,and didn’t feed them,poor things died the next day(I wish we were more educated)
11:12 When I was 11 or 12 I won a common goldfish at a carnival. He was a little thing that, at the very least, they gave us a small tank instead of a little cup like they usually are won in. I think it's actually a bit scarier looking back that they not only were using the poor fish as prizes for children but were also encouraging the goldfish to live in such a tiny tank. It was definitely better than a pee cup of course, but at least if they come in those there's a chance that the parent's child will buy a good tank as opposed to being lazy and accepting the tiny one. Luckily my mother actually liked fish well enough and because of my carnival fish, she ended up starting several large aquariums. My goldfish grew to be the palm of my hand- the size of my *adult* hand today, not back when I was a child. My friend had also won a goldfish and he didn't grow to be nearly as large, but I think it might've been because he was only living, not thriving, in a fishball with nothing other than gravel and I think a plant. I didn't know any better than to say anything as a kid, I thought back then that my mom had given my goldfish a bigger tank with a bunch of natural plants and filters and the like because she decide to get more and that's it. I named my goldfish Crimson and he lived a good 6 years or so, healthy and happy despite the rough start.
I work at a pet store and we sell comets mainly as feeder or pond fish and oohh man i cannot express how genuinely worried i get when customers ask to get comets for their kids thinking that they're simple and easy and just need a bowl to be happy T-T
So in my high school there was some sort of oceanography? class. There were maybe 6-8 tanks around the room (mix of salt and fresh water) and we were paired up and assigned a tank to care for for the semester! Best part was that all the tanks were appropriately stocked and we were taught proper tank maintenance! I got the giant tank with a lobster. Unfortunately hurricane Sandy took out the power to the school and there was big fish loss. They've since hooked them up to the generators!
My family actually has a carnival goldfish lmao. There was a carnival near our house this past winter, and my brother and some of his friends went about every day. One of the friends wanted to play some games, and the game he picked had fish as a prize. My brother tried to tell him to pick a game with different prizes, but the friend didn't want to play any other game. He ended up playing the game and winning a fish, but when his mom came to get him, he told him he couldn't have it, so my brother ended up taking him home. He's still alive, his name is Carl, and he's got a nice 15 gallon tank full of live plants! He'll probably need a bigger tank in a couple years as he grows but my family loves him!
The second tank, my little brother has a 30 gallon fish tank with that same gravel, it’s a SpongeBob theme tank that had nothing in it until I took over decorating it by adding a bunch of fake plants, I figure it’s better than 2 houses to hide in
my brother has two red eared sliders in a like 65 gallon tank, with a tiny out of water basking platform and the water is literally dark green and murky, he has a filter for it, just lets it get completely dirty and doesn’t change it for months on end. i feel so bad for the turtles and i try my best to get him to improve their living space and to take care of them but he doesn’t listen:( plus we live separately (he’s still at home, i moved out) so it’s not like i could try to do stuff for them myself and take care of them. what makes me feel even worse is that i want to just take them and take care of them myself but i don’t have any ability to and feel like i won’t in their lifetime, so all i can do is see them suffering whenever i’m home and try to get him to listen:((
The other day a 12-year-old girl told me that her parents had bought her and her brother betta fish and put them in one of those terrible fish tanks with the divider. No surprise, her fish died of stress because of the other betta fish. I hate that companies are selling these terrible products, and getting away with advertising as "safe for fish" when they're not.
Hi Soda so I have a Question for you what fish would be the best for a 10 gallon? Would a beta work and if so could I put tiny fish in there with it? Hope you fill better :3❤️❤️
I remember when I was a kid (America. We suck at fish, obviously) being told that you could put tetras in ridiculously small tanks and doing that for years and years. Then one Christmas they actually asked what I wanted and I went with like a 100gal aquarium and set it up wonderfully and everything and at the time fish in starts were normal so I got some tetras to start with the intent to move them later and get cichlids (still haven't done a cichlid tank which is sad). Within like 24 hours I discovered that tetras are beautiful schoolers and wildly active depending on the type and I wound up filling that tank with tetras and learned about planted tanks and I loved that tank so much. I don't know why tf they always tell people smaller tanks are fine. Like if you cared about the fish you wouldn't but even if you just want a living decoration fish are so much cooler and prettier when you have them in a properly sized tank or even a bigger one than they need. As soon as I have the money I'm going to do another big tetra tank (moved out, fish had to stay sadly) just to show my husband how cool even the common fish can be. I've already educated him about betta and goldfish and he tells people at the pet store randomly how to take care of them now XD. God I love him and God I miss that tank
4:58 yea I put my faith in the exact same plastic Walmart dresser when I was growing mealworms... it held up.....barely . Anyway happy almost birthday soda hope your feeling better soon.
The tank on the flimsy plastic dresser I just saw the other day. I’m in a fish group on Facebook and the OP was saying this is his girlfriend and it was an update from the little tank yet they didn’t think to update the the stand as everyone is the comments pointed out how dangerous this is. It’s a 10 gallon which will weight over 90 pounds.
my youngest sister (about 10 at the time) owned a betta fish that was in one of those plastic unfiltered containers that can hold like two cups of water. she barely ever cleaned it cuz. she was a kid and jus saw a fish as a fun toy basically it lived in there for a year. the container was so small it could only move in tight circles and it forever had a kink in its back and couldnt swim straight. she got bored of it so i took it when i got a job i bought it a 10 gallon tank and gave that lil sucker a proper home thought it wouldnt live long cuz it struggled to swim n therefore i had to basically hand feed it otherwise it couldnt chase after food. but it actually lived 2+ years and was such a lovely lil guy. a very smart fish that always recognized me when i went up to my tank
6:50 my mom got my sister a hamster and it took months of my sister and i asking for a big tank for Eloise (hamster’s name) bc she started out in those bad plastic cages. like my sister and i both did research on hamster care but mom is super stubborn & the tank is small. Not super small but we cant fit more than water food and room for a little walking and burrowing. Mom legit forbids us from adding “too much” bedding. Y’know the recommended amount for a burrowing animal. Poor thing can’t fit a wheel in there and has to pile up her bedding in a corner. I love Eloise so much but there’s nothing we can do to improve her life more. Her only form of exercise is a hamster ball she doesn’t even go in daily. I wonder if I can take her when I move out…
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i once had a classmate who complained that her pet fish kept dying. she said that she kept them in a tank with enough space and clean water and yet they went belly up in a few days.
so i asked her "what kind of fish food do you feed them?" and she looked surprised and confused. she answered, "...fish food? fish need food?"
turns out she wasn't feeding them AT ALL because for one reason or another, she assumed they only needed water to survive
Sounds like she just needed some fake fish then. R.I.P those poor souls that fell victim to her ignorance.
How old is she? Isn't it common knowledge that organisms need food to live?
I totally understand a really young kid just learning about filter feeding or algae eating animals (corals, some whales, snails, bottom feeders, etc.), or some really young kid learning about fish breathing with gills and assuming they also got food that way, but honestly anyone over the age of 8 at the very most if they just never learned somehow I find it extremely difficult to believe it’s not stupidity. And I don’t mean in a so called “low IQ” type of way, but the people who genuinely don’t care to learn anything new or use critical thinking at all. How is common sense seemingly becoming rarer?
@@beepboop7219 she was 11, we were in fourth grade at the time
@@dracodracarys2339 I.... And the parents? They knew they had fish I'm sure that had fish growing up too? I would assume?. No food?
Remember everyone who may see this
Fish needs water to live..
Fish needs food to survive..
Some Fish needs shelter to hide.
Fish needs oxygen current to breathe
Fish needs un-chlorinated water to live in
Fish needs proper filtering and water quality.
Most importantly.
Don't house fish together that are not in the same category of water quality, trust me, fish can die really fast when they're not in the right eco nutrients System.
I learned while trying to house betas with other fish that I didn't know required a whole different eco system because all it had was fresh water....
When I was getting into fish as an adult, my mom had kept a betta in a half gallon bowl hanging on the wall for years. She did take care of it, but I mean, no heater or filter, but she did frequent 100% water changes. What I ended up doing was upgraded her tank to a 2.5 gallons (filtered and heated of course). A couple years ago i upgraded her to a 5 for Christmas, and then last year I dirted it and planted it for her. She loves fish and she loves her little tank. I do take care of water changes for her from time to time because shes still new to a gravel vac still. Sometimes when you see someone who really does care, helping to educate them and set them up in the right direction can make a huge difference for an animal.
This is true! I know I'm a year late but my mom's the same way. Some people are just not aware cuz the information wasn't there or different. And Google doset often come to everyone's mind espeically the older generations . My mom has a betta she loves and he's in a smaller tank , a 2.5 but it's planted with a snail and filter and heater. But it took her lots of learning, I want to get her a 5 gallon cube and plant it for her :)
Thanks for sharing this❤
I hope you and your mum both get better soon, and happy birthday for Monday! Can't believe the conditions some people keep fish in. Willful ignorance.
What’s even more unbelievable to me is how there isn’t any consequences for it. I know some places do, but where I live there are absolutely no laws regarding fish welfare. None. They have laws for dogs, cats, birds, “livestock,” and animals for research, but absolutely none for fish. I could buy a fish right now, throw it, smash it, stab it, pull it’s scales out, and it’s 100% completely legal. It’s insane. Like fish aren’t sentient beings because they’re small?
me too
It’s crazy how people think (and sometimes can) get away with treating their animals and pets so horribly. Just because it’s not a dog or a cat it does not mean you can treat it like crap!
Yeah, i once saw i video of someone editing a video with a trollface and it was a bunch of dogs killing a snake, and the worst part was, almost all the comments were saying they hate snakes and how it deserved it, the snake did nothing to the dogs, i saw 2 comments that said it was wrong, and one of them was mine, people see mammals and birds as animals, but they see everything else as animatronics, people need to learn all of them are animals, and they help the enviroment more than we ever will
@@agrilledsandwich2745 a lot of people don't even see birds as emotional creatures worthy of care. Even rodents are commonly neglected in the USA (the #1 country in animal abuse👏).
Some people treat dogs and cats like 💩, so what's your point?
@@magicalronin okay, and? Animal abuse is never okay
@@magicalronin yeah but it’s looked down on more than abuse like this
4:20 this is mostly nicks fault. Stephen Hillenburg (The Creator) was a marine biologist I think and loved fish. He mostly wanted to educate kids about fish and water pollution but nickelodeon gave the show a bad rep.
Yeah I was gonna say. I love Spongebob so much and Hillenburg truly had a passion for marine life. The Spongebob movie DVD had a lot of educational intent about marine life that Hillenburg made alongside Jean-Michel Cousteau. It taught me a lot about the ocean when I saw it.
But Nickelodeon just sees money.
My landlord has the saddest fish tank in our laundry room, and I've been trying to scrounge up the materials to upgrade them. There's four, like, 15cm goldfish in a 10 gallon. Unfortunately, I am not a landlord, I am a tenant and therefore, poor, so it's taking a while. I finally got some free filters off of Kijiji, and I had found a nice 40 gallon (anything bigger is totally out of my price range and it's really not my job), but then I had a covid scare and missed it. :(
You could ask your landlord if you can help him adopt out the goldfish. And maybe offer to restock the tank with a proper set of fish. That may be cheaper/easier for you to do.
@@blindopossum7913 Hmm, yes, that does seem wiser, but my landlord is about 1000 years old, I don't enjoy talking to him, and I am a fundamentally petty person XD
And I kind of think it would just be funny to spring a fish tank upgrade on him.
@@star2705 What if he decides that the new tanks need some new fish and puts a koi in there? This definitely needs communication.
@@feuerling You're right! I'm going to be printing out some care sheets. :)
Pathetic
3:46 that's 100% a water container that home coffee machines have. I have on of those and it looks IDENTICAL, as much as it hurts to believe.
Also most bowls that people normally have to fishes could only have the purpose of like a small decoration INSIDE an actual tank, which is just sad.
Hey now, there is one(and only one) type of self cleaning, zero maintenance fish tank!
The kind that are sealed and unused
That's true
Saw two young kids in countrymax today, there was a display pond with goldfish and they were putting their hands in and trying to grab the fish while their dad was in the bathroom. Great idea to leave your kids unattended, nice parenting.
Dude the dad. Was in the bathroom
@@thenightlyassassinshilo1582okay, so?
Soda’s back to brighten our days. I agree with everything you say. People think fish deserve different care(less care)than from a dog, which is not true at all. Fish are very hard to take care of, and people think they’re starter pets, which is obviously not true. Keep up the work, Soda!!
well i would still say a dog would be harder to take care of but the fish need better care then the ones in the vid thats for sure (dogs only harder then fish cuz of walks and how much training they need just to function in a persons home but alot of the saltwater fish are pretty damn hard to take care of theyre so hard that my mother wouldnt let me get saltwater i find fancy goldfish dont need as many gallons as they say they do (for the first year of their lives) but goldfish certainly cant go in fish bowls they say 1 inch of fish needs 1 gallon atleast and yeah that sounds about right and most fancy goldfish ive seen get about 6 inchs when older so 10 gallons would be the minimum for 1 fancy goldfish i would say...well they say 30 gallons for a common but common get double the size of a fancy one so i would think its about 15 gallon for the fancies not 20 like they say so im kinda in the middle im not the terrible fish owners on tik tok or certain others butttt im not no fish youtuber im in the middle the fish get okish caare but not great i keep atleast a few hiding spots and keep water clean and all that but when they get older next year 3for each goldfish will get atleast 10 gallons each for fancy goldfish not exactly good enough for youtubers but better then these weird tik tok people
I own 3 fancy goldfish and I love them to death. It upsets me to see all these fish in these conditions. Makes me want to save all of them 🥺
In one of our high-school science classes there was a long long low height tank with a few I believe saltwater fish, but it was decorated sort of like what a mix if a tidewater zone and realistic if not real items. It could of been fresh, but that was so long ago but I do know it looked realistic to natural settings and those fish were super nice looking and happy.
Edit* Also forgot my zoology class which was at my senior year in what once what was one of my English classrooms. She had a pixie frog, a red ear slider, two leopard geckos and two iguanas, one being a recent rescue and *massive* he was on treatments for mouth rot from his old home.
I recently got into a fight with a little girl because she said I knew nothing abt animals while she had dangerous things in with three goldfish,and a glow fish,and the worst part was it was a 10 gallon tank
I remember when I visited my friends house a few years ago, she had one of those wall bowl aquarium things with I think a beta fish in it. It was literally just a plain tank, no filter, they didn’t even try to give the fish a good life.
She told me she keeps having to replace her fish because they keep dying really quickly, I wonder why!
Cockatiel reddit is usually a good place where people share their happy and healthy birds, but very often newbies share pics in awful conditions and get a lot of good advice
Sometimes they get dragged for it if they insist on remaining ignorant 😅
hope you feel better soon, soda! ❤️
Oh yeah I had covid (maybe a month ago?) and it totally sucked, I’m sorry to hear you got it so close to your birthday :(
I was in the same boat with being fully vaxxed as well, I think the worst part was the sore skin and sore joints, congestion/ears being popped out all the time, and the coughing. Thankfully nothing life threatening and none of the symptoms of loss of smell or taste for more than 20 days, I hope yours is also not super dangerous and you feel better soon.
Great and entertaining video like ya do with all of them. I always enjoy your personality and the way you go about speaking on situations that a lot of people are unable to calmly and rationally go about (also the birds and fish. They’re all so cute). Take your time with getting better however long that takes, I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say we’d much rather have you happy and enjoying creating content than sick and/or unhappy
i also got covid lmao
Hope you have a fast recovery! I know you said you won’t be doing for a while (which is completely understandable and normal), but when you do come back, I suggest making a video on “low environmental impact” tanks. What they do, how zero waist tanks aren’t as good as they sound, and how both takes compare against each other.
Oh no!!! Sorry to hear you are sick! Sending you healing energy from Thailand. I love you videos too BTW. Have a fun birthday. I wish I was 21 again!
Speaking of, Choice Hotels has an advertisement on TV here in the US of a kid 'travelling' with his goldfish in a bowl of very cloudy water and taking it everywhere. Ugh.
Yeah, Stephen Hillenburg is rolling in his grave rn, because of that tank. The man was a marine biologist, for God's sake!!
I am extremely disappointed in the Spongebob tank because the creator of the series (Stephen Hillenburg) was a Marine Biologist before he went into animation!
Wow, that's sad and mest up.
@@PhoenixTheCat. It is!
I love the level of sass and like, "Get out of here with your bullshit" in this video.
I think being sick made me more blunt lmao
@@sodapets Well I love it.
This isn't anything bad but I'd just like to talk about something that makes me very happy. A pet shop in my country has a rule of where if you don't get the supplies from that shop and you're buying an animal from them they ask to check your enclosure for your animal to make sure they're going to a safe home. It makes me very happy that the manager there is careful with who they're selling to
thats so cool, i wish more pet shops were like that :D
Just a beginners opinion, it should be harder to get fish for the general public. You should have to have proof of tank size or something along those lines just so people can’t get any fish just on a whim.
I agree
At my local pet shop you have to bring in a sample of your water so they can test the quality. Only once they have confirmed that your water is acceptable for fish will they let you buy one. Also the staff are really friendly and have good fish keeping advice.
Agreed
Honestly yeah. Sadly you’d still get people purchasing from backyard breeder type people or online shops which are extremely difficult to police- but it would definitely help to bring down the number of irresponsible pet owners.
Really it should be like that with every pet though. A good way to do it would be for the online store or the in-person store to
1. Put the animal on hold for a (predetermined)% down payment which would be deducted from the final price if the animal is bought, given back if the husbandry conditions aren’t met, or kept by the store if the person’s “hold” on that animal/place in a possible que for it times out without a called in cancellation so the store’s time and money isn’t wasted as much
2. The person who wants to purchase the animal is given a piece of paper with a unique QR code printed out, which they then include in a picture of their tank/enclosure/food etc. so the store can verify they took the picture pretty well
3. The person comes back with proof photos of a good habitat, and is either approved and buys the animal or is denied and given the payment back
I know it’s not very realistic, but even how hard is it to ask for a quick proof of enclosure they can look at lol
@@midnightthebettafish589 I absolutely love that, even if it’s just one small shop it’s saving so many fish.
Love when people say something like _"well yeah my fish died but it lived in these conditions for three whole years so it cant be that I'm a bad owner"_ like no idiot, you're giving yourself a lot of credit for your fish "living" when in reality that fish spent those 3 years dying.
Its been difficult to get the proper things needed for my tank because my parents believe that "its just a fish, its fine."
Luckily I think everything is sorted out now. Remember that fish have feelings too!
I used to see the tri level betta tank and my local fish store. Luckily it seems that they now keep them in 5 gals
about schools and bad tanks: in grade one, i remember we had a beta in the classroom that lived in the tiniest bowl. fully bare, got really dirty often and wasn’t cleaned enough. one day they told us the fish was sleeping because it was on its back
I will admit that I currently have 1 Danio in a 5 gallon tank.
My mum bought me the tank 2 and a half years ago for Christmas because she knew the sound of water and watching fish swim helped my depression.
After we had set up and correctly cycled the tank, the guy at the pet shop told us (incorrectly, of course) that it was fine to put 7 fish in this tank.
I quickly learned that almost everything that guy said was total lies, including that having 3 danios and 4 platies in a 5 gallon tank was a good idea, getting a ghost shrimp would help my water quality, and that the shrimp was harmless (it wasn't, it turned out to be a carnivorous shrimp and killed all but 1 of my platies before I could separate them).
So now, more than 2 years later, only one of my fish is still alive. I keep it's tank well heated, filtered and clean to make it comfortable for him.
I will not be buying any more fish until I can get a bigger, better tank (probably after my danio died sadly) when I move out of my parents house. And I will never be going back to that pet shop
yeah, i was told the same thing and i was keeping 4 glofish danios in a 5 gallon, 3 of them died and now i have 1 danio and 1 veiltail betta (female) .
My cousin has this decorative ‘tank’ that is literally the size of both of my fists for a beta, no filter and one fake leaf
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Ahhh! I didn’t know you were 20? Happy birthday Soda and get well soon! We all love your vids! And also try to have fun while on your “break” even if you’re sick 😅 ❤️
Oh look,lets put in a VERY VERy small “tank” without filter and lets put a little patrick and uhm bob’s house and for last , pink neon stones to make it look SUPER NATURAL
Where I live gets brutally cold in winter, I stopped having fish and gave away my tank after my furnace broke and my fish froze .....I have a dog now (if heat goes out he can climb in my bed to stay warm and he steals my blanket)
I saw a Pet Valu ad today. It was of this “Betta Puzzle Tank” thing. Basically u get a bunch of em and u can connect them like a puzzle. It’s was half a gallon. A pet store recommended this.. which honestly doesn’t even surprise me anymore.
5:36 THIS IS ACTUALLY MY MOM'S "AQUARIUM", I FEEL BAD FOR THAT BETA SHE HAS😭✋
feel better soon soda!
I got REALLY lucky with fish care. My dad grew up with fish and was an angelfish breeder for a long time. He also had a friend that bred Discus as well. Growing up with a father who had fish and knew how to care for them made SURE I didn't make mistakes with getting fish as BAD as any of these videos. Of course I made the mistake with cycling my tank and my cycle crashed a few times but I never did the whole putting the animal in too small a tank and with zero filtration. Even as a kid my dad had nice tanks set up with everything for any fish we got. I was lucky to have someone who had the knowledge around me from young on.
That's amazing!
For the first tank the black fish are called Cidllings (I hope I spelled that right) apparently they require a 10 gallon tank. (I only know this because my school has them)
Hope you feel better soon! Get rest, we'll be here when you feel better. And Happy Birthday!
SodaPets: You dont want your fish to survive, you want them to *thrive* !
I love this quote-
We have those fairs where you can catch fish as well, only they're fake fish and once you catch enough of them, you just get a prize. I've never seen live fish used at a place like that before, and I'm hoping it's just illegal where I live
Pet stores near me sell fish bowls with notes that say “these are not suitable for fish”but still don’t sell the bowls. And when you try to buy them for fish they won’t sell it to you
Oh cool we are birthday twins! I love your videos by the way! Keep doing what you are doing!
I was the one who posted the cat in the vase! It’s just awful. Hope you feel better soon. I had Covid about a month ago and felt awful but my mum had barely any symptoms. Think it’s really depends on the person 😊
This just reminds me of the tank at my highschool. I would always go sit next to it in the library, and every time, I’d look in this little alcove under a rock. Under it was a dead fish, who I watched over time turn from slightly fishlike to completely white skeleton. I told someone about it, but it stayed.
god... that spongebob tank reminds me of a group of people in college, who all had tanks that size, with a divider, so they could cram two bettas (one on either side) and they could barely move and the water was like.. stinking and green after a day. those poor fish :(
Alive & thriving *are not the same thing*!!! I wish people would just *do* - *their* - *research*! Appreciate you Soda for continuing to put it out there that this care is not acceptable. Especially when this kind of care is common & especially where I am in the US.
thesedays its been pretty hard to trust research cuz alotttt of stuff i look online for is like oh this or that is good then i try to do it and its like uhhhh didnt work or ends up causing me 10x more work or money i do admit the fish in these vids soda pets watchs needs better care tho like 4 goldfish in a 5 gallon tank uhh no not even good enough for 1 goldfish not even a fancy about 10 gallons is bare bare minimum for a goldfish (thats not recommended even but atleast they would have enough room to swim and be okish for 1 goldfish in 10 gallons or atleast about 5-6 for goldfish under a year alot of what people say is confusing honestly but 3 gallons minimum for a betta i would say 10 gallons for a fancy goldfish maybe and about 3 guppies and 7 tetra in a 20 gallon thats kinda my thing tho im always in the middle not terrible not all that great but middle get the job done but not do great
Damn, people have no clue how to take care of fishes
Soda you’re the best
Me and my family used to have a very small turtle tank for two turtles (now in a big above ground pond), but there were times where the filter would explode and my entire room was flooded 😬
Oh my
I had a beta in a bowl (I believe it was 2-3 gallons?) and had a heater, some planets to hide in and gravel. I changed the water once a week and such.
I moved him to a 10th all on tank after 6-7 ish months of having him. He seemed happier
Happy birthday, Soda!! Hope you spend your time looking at cute animals, today. :)
"Oh god, you know it's gonna be terrible when it's on Tiktok." preceeding the overdramatic stressing out of a fish. I think that really fits lol
I'm sick too. Can't breathe, and barely talk because of a sore throat. I wish you well, and if you need a break, feel free to take your time. You are an amazing person who is helping animals and deserve some self care.
I have one of those wall aquariums, but I’ve never put a fish in it. Rn mine has my moss ball. It was in a tank with a crawfish, but the crawfish was shredding the moss ball so I rescued Mr. Moss and put him in one of those wall bubbles lol
Happy birthday Soda!!!!
I hope you're not feeling too bad today, & hope your mum is ok xxx
My friend has a goldfish from a carnaval, she puts it in an extremely small tank, with no buddy. The fish is blind on one eye and has jumped out of its tank multiple times. Ive tried to tell her multiple times to give it more space but he insists her fish is happy and that their friend already have a friend, meaning themself
Happy birthday for the coming day! Hopefully you and your family recover quickly. Sad to see how many people keep their goldfish in these types of conditions, there’s a lot of misconceptions on what goldfish care should look like
i was on tiktok looking at fish videos and you posted this. lol
the dentists office here had a fish tank. it was there for 20 years and it looked stunning. and then covid happened and the receptionist who took care of the tank couldn't come to work for like a year. now the tank looks gross, the fish died because nobody cared enough to feed them. its just a couple of plants that look like a rotten salad.
When soda rates your pet enclosure: some guy: *posts a picture of his small aquarium*
Soda: hmm judgement is in order
If your friend or family has bad fish care and they refuse to make any changes to the setup, think about this: Would you stop associating with someone if they kept their pet dog in a tiny cage its entire life, no toys, bad food, dirty water, never cleaning the waste, while dismissing any and all critique about their animal neglect and abuse? Dogs and fish are different pets, but fish are still alive and have awareness. It's okay to reevaluate a person based on their pet care- it says a lot about true character.
You'd be surprised the dumb things american pet stores do. My girlfriend's niece got a macaw that was a rescue from a abusive pet store he was removed from the store and put in a better place that actually cared about the animals and she got a hold of him and gave him a better life and home.
Happy birthday soda!!! Hope both you and your mum get better soon.
Enjoy your birthday!
Happy early birthday!! And I hope you feel better soon (and your mom) :D!!!
"he really do be vibin doe" and it's the most stressed fish you'll ever see
Is one of my family members refused to give a fish a good home I just steal the fish that’s my fish now
I found a similar tank as the 3 tank together one at my grandma's house where she keeps fish very well but I had to educate her on the small tank regulations now because she wasn't aware that those tanks for betas was a problem
It's amazing the misconception ppl have regarding fish.. goldfish and bettas in particular.. when you were talking about people just don't care.. that's exactly how a lot of pet store workers feel when it comes to customers.. unfortunately you can try to educate them until you are blue in the face but at the end of the day they are gonna do what they want to do.. and a lot of times that means going to other stores until they get their way
I also hate that when my twin and I each got a beta fish,we kept them in the containers,and picked them up a bunch,and didn’t feed them,poor things died the next day(I wish we were more educated)
11:12 When I was 11 or 12 I won a common goldfish at a carnival. He was a little thing that, at the very least, they gave us a small tank instead of a little cup like they usually are won in. I think it's actually a bit scarier looking back that they not only were using the poor fish as prizes for children but were also encouraging the goldfish to live in such a tiny tank. It was definitely better than a pee cup of course, but at least if they come in those there's a chance that the parent's child will buy a good tank as opposed to being lazy and accepting the tiny one. Luckily my mother actually liked fish well enough and because of my carnival fish, she ended up starting several large aquariums. My goldfish grew to be the palm of my hand- the size of my *adult* hand today, not back when I was a child. My friend had also won a goldfish and he didn't grow to be nearly as large, but I think it might've been because he was only living, not thriving, in a fishball with nothing other than gravel and I think a plant. I didn't know any better than to say anything as a kid, I thought back then that my mom had given my goldfish a bigger tank with a bunch of natural plants and filters and the like because she decide to get more and that's it.
I named my goldfish Crimson and he lived a good 6 years or so, healthy and happy despite the rough start.
Happy belated birthday! My SO has the same bday as you lol. Saw you're doing better on another video so I'm glad you and your mom are feeling better.
Make sure to drink lots of water and get lots of rest! I love your videos and I hope you guys get better soon!
I work at a pet store and we sell comets mainly as feeder or pond fish and oohh man i cannot express how genuinely worried i get when customers ask to get comets for their kids thinking that they're simple and easy and just need a bowl to be happy T-T
10:52 oh no, it brings back memories, very painfull memories.
So in my high school there was some sort of oceanography? class. There were maybe 6-8 tanks around the room (mix of salt and fresh water) and we were paired up and assigned a tank to care for for the semester!
Best part was that all the tanks were appropriately stocked and we were taught proper tank maintenance!
I got the giant tank with a lobster.
Unfortunately hurricane Sandy took out the power to the school and there was big fish loss. They've since hooked them up to the generators!
I hope you’ll get better! and happy early birthday! :)
My family actually has a carnival goldfish lmao. There was a carnival near our house this past winter, and my brother and some of his friends went about every day. One of the friends wanted to play some games, and the game he picked had fish as a prize. My brother tried to tell him to pick a game with different prizes, but the friend didn't want to play any other game. He ended up playing the game and winning a fish, but when his mom came to get him, he told him he couldn't have it, so my brother ended up taking him home. He's still alive, his name is Carl, and he's got a nice 15 gallon tank full of live plants! He'll probably need a bigger tank in a couple years as he grows but my family loves him!
The second tank, my little brother has a 30 gallon fish tank with that same gravel, it’s a SpongeBob theme tank that had nothing in it until I took over decorating it by adding a bunch of fake plants, I figure it’s better than 2 houses to hide in
my brother has two red eared sliders in a like 65 gallon tank, with a tiny out of water basking platform and the water is literally dark green and murky, he has a filter for it, just lets it get completely dirty and doesn’t change it for months on end. i feel so bad for the turtles and i try my best to get him to improve their living space and to take care of them but he doesn’t listen:( plus we live separately (he’s still at home, i moved out) so it’s not like i could try to do stuff for them myself and take care of them. what makes me feel even worse is that i want to just take them and take care of them myself but i don’t have any ability to and feel like i won’t in their lifetime, so all i can do is see them suffering whenever i’m home and try to get him to listen:((
The other day a 12-year-old girl told me that her parents had bought her and her brother betta fish and put them in one of those terrible fish tanks with the divider. No surprise, her fish died of stress because of the other betta fish. I hate that companies are selling these terrible products, and getting away with advertising as "safe for fish" when they're not.
Hi Soda so I have a Question for you what fish would be the best for a 10 gallon? Would a beta work and if so could I put tiny fish in there with it?
Hope you fill better :3❤️❤️
Hope you get well soon Soda
Happy slightly late birthday! 🎂
And hope you and your mom both get better soon!
Hello! Whats your opinion on taking cats on walks with leash/harnesses outside?
I always try to inform people and they never ever listen lol
I remember when I was a kid (America. We suck at fish, obviously) being told that you could put tetras in ridiculously small tanks and doing that for years and years. Then one Christmas they actually asked what I wanted and I went with like a 100gal aquarium and set it up wonderfully and everything and at the time fish in starts were normal so I got some tetras to start with the intent to move them later and get cichlids (still haven't done a cichlid tank which is sad). Within like 24 hours I discovered that tetras are beautiful schoolers and wildly active depending on the type and I wound up filling that tank with tetras and learned about planted tanks and I loved that tank so much. I don't know why tf they always tell people smaller tanks are fine. Like if you cared about the fish you wouldn't but even if you just want a living decoration fish are so much cooler and prettier when you have them in a properly sized tank or even a bigger one than they need. As soon as I have the money I'm going to do another big tetra tank (moved out, fish had to stay sadly) just to show my husband how cool even the common fish can be. I've already educated him about betta and goldfish and he tells people at the pet store randomly how to take care of them now XD. God I love him and God I miss that tank
yooooooo its wild out there with the covid but I hope you do get better! and I hope your birthday goes well for ya!
4:58 yea I put my faith in the exact same plastic Walmart dresser when I was growing mealworms... it held up.....barely . Anyway happy almost birthday soda hope your feeling better soon.
The tank on the flimsy plastic dresser I just saw the other day. I’m in a fish group on Facebook and the OP was saying this is his girlfriend and it was an update from the little tank yet they didn’t think to update the the stand as everyone is the comments pointed out how dangerous this is. It’s a 10 gallon which will weight over 90 pounds.
I hope you feel better soon!!! Happy early birthday!!! 💜💜💜
the fair goldfish looks like it's saying "help, help, help, help"
fish
Hi! What fish would you recommend to buy?
Hope u feel better! also happy birthday
I just find it funny that I keep my feeder crickets in bigger and better space that lot of people keep their pets 🤣
my youngest sister (about 10 at the time) owned a betta fish that was in one of those plastic unfiltered containers that can hold like two cups of water. she barely ever cleaned it cuz. she was a kid and jus saw a fish as a fun toy basically
it lived in there for a year. the container was so small it could only move in tight circles and it forever had a kink in its back and couldnt swim straight. she got bored of it so i took it when i got a job i bought it a 10 gallon tank and gave that lil sucker a proper home
thought it wouldnt live long cuz it struggled to swim n therefore i had to basically hand feed it otherwise it couldnt chase after food. but it actually lived 2+ years and was such a lovely lil guy. a very smart fish that always recognized me when i went up to my tank
6:50 my mom got my sister a hamster and it took months of my sister and i asking for a big tank for Eloise (hamster’s name) bc she started out in those bad plastic cages. like my sister and i both did research on hamster care but mom is super stubborn & the tank is small. Not super small but we cant fit more than water food and room for a little walking and burrowing. Mom legit forbids us from adding “too much” bedding. Y’know the recommended amount for a burrowing animal. Poor thing can’t fit a wheel in there and has to pile up her bedding in a corner.
I love Eloise so much but there’s nothing we can do to improve her life more. Her only form of exercise is a hamster ball she doesn’t even go in daily. I wonder if I can take her when I move out…
Thanks for the video, hope you feel better soon!