Today I saw a lfs employee shut down a woman looking to get betta for her daughter for Christmas. Surprisingly the woman actually listened. She came in for a fish that could live in a bowl and left empty handed even though the store sells bowls and bettas lol. Christmas miracle.
I mean, she could have still gotten her daughter a betta for christmas, well, specifically, she could have gotten her daughter a fish tank kit, a heater, ect. and gave that to her for Christmas, set it up and cycle it, and go back to the store a week or two later for the fish.
Never believe a fish is dead until you've made absolutely sure. My first goldfish jumped out of his 60 gallon tank and I found him laying on the ground "dead". I had a cry and buried him in the garden in a tupperware cause I felt weird about things eating his body. Then I looked up how long fish survive out of water to find out how long he suffered. I was shocked! In a cool room on a hard surface, goldfish can seal their gills up overnight! We rushed out to dig him up and put him back in the tank where he started moving! And here I am 4 years later, he just celebrated his 9th birthday. He did turn completely white after the incident...
Dude we had a goldfish we thought died so we froze it for turtle food (i now know not to feed goldfish to anything) and we let it thaw out in the tank and... it fucking lived. The thing had been alive the whole time.
@@FishForThought did it again today except they wanted a goldfish in a bowl until I told them I have a 75 gallon goldfish tank and they were like o heck
When I wanted to get my betta my local pet store said a 1 GALLON was fine I had to prove to my mom it wasn’t so we’re getting a bigger tank and returning that horrid tank
That first one really made me sad, I can't even flush a dead fish down the toilet, instead I always bury them in my backyard and make a little grave for them.
I always burry them in a flower pot and plant a flower that matches their colour ,my red veil betta passes away recently (he lived a very nice long life ,he was 8 yrs old) ,I burried him in a pot and planted a red and black flower
When I think a fish is dead I take it out of the tank for a second or two with my net to see if it flaps around , I do this a few times and also swish them around in the water to see if they react
Just check the gills.cuase if the gills are moving their still alive. Cuase fish can become paralyzed if it gets to cold and appear dead.also dehydrated fish can be a bit stiff.
@@pebble_pearl_9075 yeah they can get dehydrated, I still don't really understand how but I think if they eat really bad food or have too much salt in their water
Ayyy my turtle tank got a 4.5/5. I actually added live plants in their because of you and your channel. Thank you so much for featuring me! Love your videos!
I felt bad for my boy when he was in a 4.5 gallon ,he was moved into a 10 gal afew months ago after I cycled it ,it only has one fake plant ,two hides and a betta leaf hammock but I'm planning on adding live plants soon.hes a lot happier tho
kodieack kodie hey! you’re already doing much better then most owners c: one of my diy pro tips lol: i have a “harvest box” set up for most of mine, like java fern, hornwort, duckweed, and a few others i can’t remember. when something grows in or someone wants some plants or i’m doing a tank build for someone, i whip these out (i’m very fun at parties) if you have hermit crabs and duckweed they’re a great combination!! they love eating it so whenever you trim your weed you can feed it to them or give them to people who do have hermits anywho good luck! glad to hear you’re working towards the perfect life for your betta!
I honeslty feel like people hear as kids, "fish can't feel pain". (Said every dad to every kid learning to fish). And from then on no amount of pain or idiocy inflicted on an animal is questioned.
Hey! Glad you saw my post! Just a little background, credit u/ppw27 (Betta video) "No this video is really old it was on RUclips at first then someone uploaded it on Snapchat to claim it and now it mades its to tiktok. The girl was putting daily video of her fish on social media and really thought he was dead. She was stupid but nit malicious"
I would watch if you did. I had a lovely parrot when I was a child. He is still alive (I had to rehome him, but he's with a loving family who I know well). His name is Squeaky and he was the most spoiled Mexican Redhead Parrot. He only went in his cage to sleep. Otherwise he always followed me everywhere (and he was newspaper trained so I didn't have to worry about accidents - he went on command). So clever and endlessly curious. I was sad that I got too sick to keep him (I had GBS about a year after I got him and spent about 3 months paralyzed).
My mom once took the guard off the filter and kinda guided my fish up it so that it was torn to shreds. I was like seven and I was heartbroken for months. Thankfully, I was able to get more fish for my birthday and took (pardon the pun) betta care of them. Unfortunately, my days of caring for fish had come to an end about four years ago, but I’m trying to get more fish now. :’)
My Beta is in a 5 gallon tank. I have his filter on the lowest setting. He plays in the flow. He comes up from below the nosel and when the water jet hits his body he rides the wave. He also likes to hang out on top and under the filter. Got to love how he plays.
2:23 oh my god when I was ten my dad had a fish at his job with that exact bowl. No one ever took care of the fish, never fed him properly or cleaned his water often enough. I cleaned his water and fed him whenever I was able to come over over. They actually had 2 fish, Alpha One and Alpha Two. Alpha One... Yep died. Alpha Two I wasn't able to come in often enough to take care of him
She probably did do it for TikTok but thought "I'll just pretend to be surprised, NOT flush and scoop em back out!" but the fish freaking swam straight into the hole. (Probably to hide) and who knows if she got it out.
Watching your videos inspired me to make my fish tanks look more natural. I started out with dark green gravel and plastic plants. I have 10 tanks, mostly 20 gallon long tanks. All are cory catfish except 3 bettas someone brought to me because they were really sick. Now they are healthy and happy. Anyway, my tanks now have carib sea super natural sand and only live plants. You would probably give me a 4 until all of the plants grow out. It's a miracle that the plants lived. I am one of those people that can kill a plant just by looking at it. Update: Over a year ago and things are going good. My fish are happy and healthy and breeding like crazy.
First I'm jealous all all your 20longs. My husband doesn't know it yet, but I have a secret plan to stack 20 longs...right now ai have a 5, 10, and just got my first 20l for my birthday. He may figure it out when I ask for my 2nd at Christmas. --- anyhow - what kind of plants do you use? I have a few anubias i haven't killed and have a jave fern but just started moving everything from plastic to planted (around a month same as the 20). -- would appreciate advice from someone recently there
@@Loralanthalas I use anubias. I had Amazon sword but I looked at them and they died. I have been trying to find a good home for my fish, tanks and everything. My health problems are making it hard to keep them as clean as I want to. I live in an attic and it's hard to carry thany many gallons of water upstairs.
jokes on the guy in the beginning, I keep myyyy betta in a .75 gallon tank with one rock one plant and tap water which I put Pantene conditioner, a filter that i built myself made out of plastic and my betta's tears. He still ded tho
I have two male bettas that share a 10-gallon tank (obviously their sides are separated and they can’t see each other)... and my grandma has bettas as well but for just about all my life she’s kept her fish in a 1.5 gallon tub that was once a container used for cheese puffs.. without a heater, no filter, and nothing else in the tub other than water and the fish and a little light... it makes me so sad to see it because all he does is sit there and most likely just sleeps constantly due to boredom... back in January my grandma had to stay with us for a long time so I tried to offer to put her fish in one of the other small unused 2.5 gallon tanks I have but she said it was ok... but all I could think was no it’s not ok 😭 I don’t know how she’s able to get them to live 3.5+ years
I don't know about that betta fish in the beginning if it connects to one of those boxes that it's dead but if it's one of those lines that connect to the river then it could have probably lived
I don’t toss the fish until its white in the eye and floating. If there was any ammonia build up, I’ve never noticed because I don’t have any other fish in the tank.
I was in my local fish store and people where buying a £10 tank about 1 gallon and I wish the pet store would just decline them from buying this unless they put a nerite snail in there 😂
Tbh nerites only should live in the wild, there's almost no way to provide them with the correct mix of saltwater and freshwater; MAYBE a shrimp and a black helmet
2:21 Ohhhh yes my mom fell for that aquarium and so did I... For about 3 months I had a betta live in that crap. When things went awry, only then did I realize the mistake I had made in getting that thing. I now have a filtered and heated 5-gallon with dense vegetation and plenty of decoration. Betta loves it.
My betta went from a 1.6 gallon tank with a few fake plants and a leaf plant to.. a 10 gallon tank with 1 kuhli loach, driftwood, a lot of live plants and a log.
tiktok user: *puts betta in toilet for a video* betta: jokes on u imma have a betta life in the shitter than in ur shitteree of a """""""""tank"""""""""
My betta has a nice tank, I got my first betta when I was 9 it was actually 2 days before my b day!!! My dad got me a fish and he lived for about 5 months or so, now I have a new betta and he is very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... I have the tank shown at 2:17 (not in use, I promise) from my dorm room days. Not proud of myself, but at least I put a tiny filter and heater in, and did my water changes. I eventually did move that betta into a 10 gallon when I went back to living at home.
I can't imagine flushing a fish. I burried my beta under a rosebush, my cat visits him every day, even 3 years later. She was crying and attacking me when I emptied his tank, they loved each other more than anything.
no it's everyone ! according to the comments it used to not have audio issues to probably copyrighted audio that has ''recently'' been cut out by youtube automatically
The video with the betta totally happens. I have had it happen two separate times in my life. The first time was my pea puffer when I was 10. It was completely dead looking in the tank but once it hit the toilet water it started swimming. I brought it back to its tank and it stopped moving again. It did not come back when my mom put it back in the toilet again. More recently I started my first fish tank as an adult. I got a "shrimp-proof" filter to protect my chili rasboras but it still sucked one up. I ran the filter in the sink and it swam but it did not swim in the tank. It sadly passed after like 10 minutes in the sink. I replaced the filter with a sponge filter and all of my fish are happy and healthy now. It felt terrible knowing that the filter killed them.
One of my old mates had a fish bowl (at most 1 gallon) with 2 baby lion head and a Male beta fish. No heater, one fake plant and just enough gravel to cover the bottom. I told them it was a bad idea and tried to educate them that betas are tropical and can’t be housed with goldfish and that bowl was far too small. They didn’t believe me and said they were going to listen to the pet shop smh. About a month later the beta took out one of the lion heads eyes and she returned it to the pet shop, hopefully he found a better home. And as far as I know to this day those goldfish are still in the same gallon bowl (this was about a year ago). Also to make matters worse she was texting me the same day asking about water conditioner. I told her she needed to set up the tank and it’ll be a long while before she can add fish. Same day she’s down the pet shop and goes home with a bowl and the 2 lion heads. Some people just don’t want to learn
I found it isn't so much bettas don't like big tanks, more they don't like wide open spaces found in big tanks. Large tanks that overgrown with plants that also have floating plants will have a happy Betta. If you want to keep your betta in a large tank and don't want to do live plants, pop plastic plants off their base and they will float
Chris seeing my comments on these older videos is like finding a kuhli loach in a tank you thought was empty months ago. Chris: What are you doing in there? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN EATING? *Me stuffing months old videos in my face.*
Green algae in a tank is not always bad. As long as your water parameters is ok. It just means that there is too much light. If the water parameters is showing high nitrates/nitrites/ammonia, then that is bad. Algae is a plant, it eats up extra nutrients. Slimy and not aesthetically pleasing but not always bad.
Uugghh these beautiful tanks make me wanna hide mine from the world xD i love trying to make my tanks full on natural but my plants grow then they just go "SIKE" and die on me and makes my tank look like the pits of death valley >.> even tho my fish r still alive and well
i recently found your channel and have been watching all your old videos! wish i had pictures of my old betta tank to show you. i had a 75 gallon planted and hard scaped tank with several community fish in it that i think you would’ve loved (for the scape, maybe not the betta being in a 75 lol). i had roughly 30 fish total. i didn’t know there was such thing as too large of a tank for bettas. it went strong for almost 2 years. but then i gave birth to my son and got too overwhelmed to take care of it for a few months and an ammonia spike (now i know from being over fed) eventually ended up wiping out the whole tank :( i tried fixing the tank for several months through water changes and just couldn’t save it. i learned a lot with that tank.
Those little tiny tanks would be perfect to attach inside a big tank with current to give the smaller fish a place to rest. Could make it really cool looking. I use glass vases in my 200 gallon goldfish take to give the 1 fancy a place to get away from the current. He uses them all the time.
When I was around 7 my mom got us a goldfish and a small fish tank. That poor fish died in 2 weeks. I still feel bad. We ended up getting 3 little guppies that lived for years.
I'm pretty late but here are my experiences. Sooo I went to a mall and decided to go to a pet shop there. I was looking at fish supplies and I noticed a pet shop employee dangling his hand on top of the frickin tank of flowerhorn fishes and guess what, a fish jumped out of the tank and onto the floor. 😒 He wasn't feeding them whatsoever, he just put his hand on top of the tank, sorta teased the fishes, and got shocked when one jumped out. sigh. Also, some bettas are kept in a really really small containers, they can barely move and the others on a small tank are pretty much dying, dead, or slightly healthy. Though I think that like 80 percent of the fish on the small tanks are healthy, (from what I saw) I don't think they even bother to remove or treat the dying/sick/dead ones. This other experience was in a pet shop near our house. My brother brought home three betta fishes. He got them from a close friend of his and were kept in cut glass bottles and from what I have seen in a facebook betta group, a tank for a betta should be at least 2.5 gallons. I went to that pet store and me and my siblings debated on which tank we should get, a 15 gallon tank that we will divide in three, or three 2.5 gallon tanks. The pet store guy said cups are okay and are all they need and offered one of those small,plastic tank divided in three. I declined and decided to get the three 2.5 gallon tanks. They keep bettas in plastic cups, a pet frog in dirty water with leftover food all over, didn't clean cats' litter boxes, Don't worry, the cats were sold already. Y'all may say that we shouldn't have purchased from there, but it was the closest and cheapest store here. Also, I didn't have much of a choice cause we drove there already and the bettas were in those cups for a long amount of time.
I agree with the comment at the beginning of the video even though I keep a betta in a tank without rocks. In my defense, the tank and the betta being housed in it are intended for breeding and I don't have rocks because I had bred goldust mollies in the past and some of the babies got stuck in the tank's rocks and I'd prefer not having that kind of situation again. Before anyone thinks to ask, I have a sponge filter, a heater, a cave for him to hide in and a snail to help keep the tank clean, and the tank itself is above 2.5 gallons.
God creating gold fish God: ok make it a brown fish Angel: ok God: now make humans breed them to be a orange color Angel: a bit weird but ok God: now make humans throw them into 0.1 gallon tanks Angel: what the f- God: DO IT Angel: y-yes sir
Your sound cut out around 9:38 not sure if it was just for me and came back around 11:52. This has happened on a couple other videos. But my sweatshirt should be here Friday I'm so excited! Corigang!lol
One thing about bettas - they don't really have a 'minimum'. Maybe a 100 gal is a little too much for them? HOWEVER - they need hides! They want a heavily planted tank, i.e. a tank that you can't see from one side to the other because of the plants. They do also need a slow flow, but you will certainly have that if you have enough plants that you can't see through the tank. 5-10 is a good starting point because it's easy to get enough plants to completely fill it, but you could get a HUGE aquarium for one. In the wild a betta might have a territory a quarter of a square acre. That's a lot of water. I might be a betta nerd.
Thats true, but most bettas nowadays have nothing in common with the wild betta anymore, they've been bred for decades. You could get them a 100 gollon tank, but it would be a lot to plant tbh and for most other fish, too much plants and most bettas don't go well with a community. It stresses them and shortens the life. I keep mine in 20 gallons each, not small, a godd territory to keep and still able to swim trough with huge fins. Wild bettas ,giant bettas and plakat bettas can keep bigger territory without getting exhausted too fast.
It's smart to ask for like at the start of a video. A lot of people don't watch the end of video's with the standard "thanks for liking commenting ang sharing blablabla" And your genuine reaction is amazing :) That's why I want to like your videos twice.
The girl who's fish had a "suicide mission" made another video, she yelled the fishes name (Georgina) and the fish swam out, I dont remember of she got him out tho. :/
Hmm... That's not a nice way to call your fish... You're supposed to say thier name in a calm, loving, clear voice. It's definitely possible to teach certain fish to recognize thier names, but it shouldn't ever be used to scold them with. Never punish a fish, just give them positive reinforcement when they behave properly. The poor babies don't know better, and they only learn to be afraid from punishment...
I have been really scared to add live plants to my tank because every time i have added them to my tanks they have killed all of my fish, I dont know if its the store because they do keep fish with the selection of plants, maybe even if you wash the plants they still carry a disease or something..
What if you like, connected all the small tanks and it was kinda funky looking, but collectively it would be 5 gallons or more. Fish has access to all the tanks, it's just the tank is awkward and has different levels? Idk how one would put it together?
So... i have an issue. I cant grow algae. Ive tried raising light hours to 14 hours a day increasing ferts and everything. Nothing worked. My plants always suck up the nutrients too quickly. I dont know what I'm doing wrong. Or right. Its all my heavily planted tanks that don't grow any algae
That second white tank is super cute, but definitely not for a fish. I would totally get it and put a plant or two in it though, or maybe a small snail/shrimp. As long as there’s some maintenance items out there for it, like a filter, heater, etc.
I love the look to live plants but I either have them make the tank really algae filled or infest my tank with snails... how do I stop this??? I always changed the water once a week.. at most would go a fortnight when I was busy or lazy one week and wasn't that dirty (40L with a betta)
I recommend quarantining your plants and putting out snail traps It can take up to a week but its great I also personally use nirite snails and aquarium salt to keep blooms down works like a charm I have to put a waffer in every so often esp after water changes when theres a salt load in the system but they are very happy in the planted tank
My betta ended up dying.. not sure why may have been from old age or just me not realising the signs of what's wrong. Pet shop kept telling me it wasn't fin got even though he wasn't getting any better but.. haha thanks anyway!
My friend put her betta in a REALLY small tank, and her excuse is “I don’t feel like paying for a bigger tank” IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT THEN DON’T KEEP A BETTA, and then she complains about how she thinks he’s dead sometimes and that he isn’t very active! When she puts him in this little .5 gallon tank!
The other day I was moving some young guppies. I set the net on the counter and came back half an hour to fourty minutes later only to realize I left a fish in the net. I assumed he was dead and dumped him in the toilet. He started swimming around and now he's safely back in his tank.
My betta tank is a 10 gallon tank divided in half so there is 5 gallons on each side ( the tank already has a heater, filter, gravel, and shorter dequor), for the holidays I will be putting in live plants for my one betta (I never got to getting another betta) and adding in a few tank mates . I have a backup plan if the tank mates do not work . I do not have a plant type substrait, but will be using a weekly aquarium plant fertilizer .please do not tell me to get a plant substrate, I know it would be beneficial for the plants but seen as this is my first planted aquarium I would like to see if it will work withought .the fertilizer is called LeafZone by API . I am open to ideas on how to improve my tank .
I still feel bad for a goldfish i killed when i was 4 my mum had taught me to look after them and i now look after my 2 own planted tanks since last year so the story is when i was 4 we had a googly eye black goldfish we had always looked after dogs, so my mum came down to find me dragging a poor goldfish on a leash because I thought they needed exercise i meant well but the fish sadly died and i use this as my example to care for my fish after my mum had to give up and sold the tank and once i became 16 i decided to retake up old hobbys and decided a fish tank would be good to help me study and now i have a 5 gallon a 15-20 gallon and a 10 gallon which is the one i look after for my mum all tropical tanks planted
This happened to me with a Cory. Thought he was dead. He wasn’t moving at all even when netted. He moved as soon as he hit the toilet water. I felt AWFUL! Did manage to save him. Have had him three years since. I now know he’s apparently a deep sleeper.
If you find an LFS where they tell you buying something is probably not a good idea, make that your designated store because they obviously care more about the care of the stock more than making a quick penny. I have a designated fish store for my Marine aquarium, I attribute it a lot to my success.
“That fish has a better chance surviving in the sewers than with this person”
SHIITTTTTT🔥🔥🔥🔥
straight fire yeah I'm good i know (jk) xD
Litterly
@@FishForThought my god you baked him into a cake
That’s hotter than speedwagon
SUPER HOT FIRE🤣👏🏽👏🏽
Today I saw a lfs employee shut down a woman looking to get betta for her daughter for Christmas. Surprisingly the woman actually listened. She came in for a fish that could live in a bowl and left empty handed even though the store sells bowls and bettas lol. Christmas miracle.
wow !
We are saved
The best thing I've seen all day
Bowls always look nice for a wabikusa
I mean, she could have still gotten her daughter a betta for christmas, well, specifically, she could have gotten her daughter a fish tank kit, a heater, ect. and gave that to her for Christmas, set it up and cycle it, and go back to the store a week or two later for the fish.
Betta: doesn’t move for 0.1 seconds
Tik-Tok user: looks like you’re going to the shadow realm jimbo
Mr.Waffles
Oh my god this got me 😂💀
Mr.Waffles wait isn’t this from Troll hunters?
Lmao my betta is names jimbo
Mr.Waffles Troll Hunters where we at!
Lmao
Never believe a fish is dead until you've made absolutely sure. My first goldfish jumped out of his 60 gallon tank and I found him laying on the ground "dead". I had a cry and buried him in the garden in a tupperware cause I felt weird about things eating his body. Then I looked up how long fish survive out of water to find out how long he suffered. I was shocked! In a cool room on a hard surface, goldfish can seal their gills up overnight! We rushed out to dig him up and put him back in the tank where he started moving! And here I am 4 years later, he just celebrated his 9th birthday. He did turn completely white after the incident...
Fish has been to the grave and back. Woot.
wow just wow
Whoa.
Dude we had a goldfish we thought died so we froze it for turtle food (i now know not to feed goldfish to anything) and we let it thaw out in the tank and... it fucking lived. The thing had been alive the whole time.
@@corvus6779 goldfish are really resilient, and that makes them proper pests when they end up in the wild.
Man: *has no knowledge about betta but buys one anyways*
Betta: *sleeps*
Man: *oh he’s dead let’s flush him*
omg xD
@@FishForThought My parents always gently swish the water around any suspects and even poke it lightly to make sure it is dead
Do fish sleep?
a x o l o t l yes...they stay in the same place...also they sleep with there eyes open
Imagine falling asleep and when you wake up you are in a coffin in mid being buried
Chris: **sees any saltwater type fish**
*”I think that’s a damsel fish”*
LMAO Well I did say I'm bad at saltwater xD
It’s true also Hi Chris!
It's a tang.
Tik tok betta care makes me cry
what care though xD
They don't take constructive criticism 🙄🙄
I'm thinking about making tiktoks on my betta just to insult those people
You should see the rodent care 😭
@@cricketsconfetticake oh God no
I work at a fish store and talked someone up from a betta in a bowl to a 10 gallon betta tank
you are the hero we did not know we needed
@@FishForThought did it again today except they wanted a goldfish in a bowl until I told them I have a 75 gallon goldfish tank and they were like o heck
Thank you
OUR HERO
When I wanted to get my betta my local pet store said a 1 GALLON was fine I had to prove to my mom it wasn’t so we’re getting a bigger tank and returning that horrid tank
That first one really made me sad, I can't even flush a dead fish down the toilet, instead I always bury them in my backyard and make a little grave for them.
aw :( you the real G
Me too 😞
I always burry them in a flower pot and plant a flower that matches their colour ,my red veil betta passes away recently (he lived a very nice long life ,he was 8 yrs old) ,I burried him in a pot and planted a red and black flower
kodieack kodie intresting, I might start doing that now...
I wish I could do that but I live in an apartment and would probably not find space to burry it..
Remember kids: green powerade is not a suitable habitat for your fish.
Actually neon tetras like to live in water that has blue or red food coloring in! It helps them feel safe and secure!!
@@SpiritAquatics *narrows eyes* I can't tell if joking...
Aleshanation well it got a heart so...
But it has electrolytes 🤷♂️
Awwww ur no fun
My mom flushed live fish because she didn’t feel like cleaning the fish tank I got her for Christmas. Thanks mom!
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That poor fish.... ;-;
Magenta 12 it was multiple fish.....
@@smallowl8703 That makes it even worse.... ;-;
I would’ve been furious
Nobody:
Still absolutely no one:
Fish abuse: L E M O N
lmao right? what is even that
@@FishForThought they probably tried to add a little bit more "taste" to the aquarium
@@jellyfish2603 with more texture
9:38 Does anyone else hear the audio cut off at this point?
YES! THANK YOU! I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT!
Yes! Really 😥
Same-came back on at 11:54
🎶tiktok on the clock
the awful betta care don’t stop 🎵
ayyy nice kesha xD
That rhyme was fine how they keep bettas is a crime ;)
🎵tonight ima fight
fish going to sea alright🎶
🎵ohh ohh ohhh! ohhh ohh ohhh!🎶
🎶 Tittok on the clock
Everyone gangsta till your betta stop🎶
Owner: puts betta in unheated, unfiltered 2x2 inch cube and only cleans it once every few weeks
Betta: dies
Owner: surprised Pikachu face
When I think a fish is dead I take it out of the tank for a second or two with my net to see if it flaps around , I do this a few times and also swish them around in the water to see if they react
Nuke No0dle I also don’t film it..... I think they did it on purpose 😔
Lily A. They definitely did ! If they cared for their pet they wouldn’t find it funny enough to record when it dies
Just check the gills.cuase if the gills are moving their still alive.
Cuase fish can become paralyzed if it gets to cold and appear dead.also dehydrated fish can be a bit stiff.
Brianna Harter I’ve never really had fish (I’m looking into getting a turtle) but can they actually get dehydrated??
@@pebble_pearl_9075 yeah they can get dehydrated, I still don't really understand how but I think if they eat really bad food or have too much salt in their water
Ayyy my turtle tank got a 4.5/5. I actually added live plants in their because of you and your channel. Thank you so much for featuring me! Love your videos!
Hi Matthew! Thanks for sending! It's a wonderful tank
Fish For Thought thank you 😊
Betta fish: Can I have a 10G tank
Fish noob: 1G is good for you
Betta fish:dies
Owner: I’ll get a new one
Fr those people shouldn't have credit cards
betta fish: *dies*
owner: *surprised pikachu face*
I felt bad for my boy when he was in a 4.5 gallon ,he was moved into a 10 gal afew months ago after I cycled it ,it only has one fake plant ,two hides and a betta leaf hammock but I'm planning on adding live plants soon.hes a lot happier tho
@@shrekscumslut1341 You have one lucky betta
kodieack kodie hey! you’re already doing much better then most owners c:
one of my diy pro tips lol: i have a “harvest box” set up for most of mine, like java fern, hornwort, duckweed, and a few others i can’t remember. when something grows in or someone wants some plants or i’m doing a tank build for someone, i whip these out (i’m very fun at parties)
if you have hermit crabs and duckweed they’re a great combination!! they love eating it so whenever you trim your weed you can feed it to them or give them to people who do have hermits
anywho good luck! glad to hear you’re working towards the perfect life for your betta!
Betta fish: exists
Stupid people: is this a decoration?
I honeslty feel like people hear as kids, "fish can't feel pain". (Said every dad to every kid learning to fish).
And from then on no amount of pain or idiocy inflicted on an animal is questioned.
I don’t even need encouragement to like these. The content is worth the like regardless.
Cody you make me happy
May the algorithm forever be in your favor
hehe nice
Hey! Glad you saw my post! Just a little background, credit u/ppw27 (Betta video)
"No this video is really old it was on RUclips at first then someone uploaded it on Snapchat to claim it and now it mades its to tiktok. The girl was putting daily video of her fish on social media and really thought he was dead. She was stupid but nit malicious"
:((( yikes.
thanks for sharing more!
Betta fish killing other Betta fish.
Betta fish : peace was never an option.
The betta could have potentially had been in bodily shut down but came back
Low key thinking of starting up "Bird Cage Review."
do it!
I would watch if you did. I had a lovely parrot when I was a child. He is still alive (I had to rehome him, but he's with a loving family who I know well). His name is Squeaky and he was the most spoiled Mexican Redhead Parrot. He only went in his cage to sleep. Otherwise he always followed me everywhere (and he was newspaper trained so I didn't have to worry about accidents - he went on command). So clever and endlessly curious. I was sad that I got too sick to keep him (I had GBS about a year after I got him and spent about 3 months paralyzed).
Do it
My mom once took the guard off the filter and kinda guided my fish up it so that it was torn to shreds. I was like seven and I was heartbroken for months. Thankfully, I was able to get more fish for my birthday and took (pardon the pun) betta care of them.
Unfortunately, my days of caring for fish had come to an end about four years ago, but I’m trying to get more fish now. :’)
My Beta is in a 5 gallon tank. I have his filter on the lowest setting. He plays in the flow. He comes up from below the nosel and when the water jet hits his body he rides the wave. He also likes to hang out on top and under the filter. Got to love how he plays.
13:54 “if it’s name is super man how did you expect it to survive it’s swimming in crypto nite” 😂 that made me laugh
hehe
2:23 oh my god when I was ten my dad had a fish at his job with that exact bowl. No one ever took care of the fish, never fed him properly or cleaned his water often enough. I cleaned his water and fed him whenever I was able to come over over. They actually had 2 fish, Alpha One and Alpha Two. Alpha One... Yep died. Alpha Two I wasn't able to come in often enough to take care of him
My betta is kept in a 45 gallon tank
I want to get a betta for my 50gal
Oh sweet! Mine lives in around 63 gallons tank (240 liters).
@@wooopa Wow! I l live in SA so all litres for me! I just convert it because like 70 or 80% of people on yt are american
You guys have a lot of space in your homes 😳
12:30 y'all your tanks are way to big people mmm
She probably did do it for TikTok but thought "I'll just pretend to be surprised, NOT flush and scoop em back out!" but the fish freaking swam straight into the hole. (Probably to hide) and who knows if she got it out.
Watching your videos inspired me to make my fish tanks look more natural. I started out with dark green gravel and plastic plants. I have 10 tanks, mostly 20 gallon long tanks. All are cory catfish except 3 bettas someone brought to me because they were really sick. Now they are healthy and happy. Anyway, my tanks now have carib sea super natural sand and only live plants. You would probably give me a 4 until all of the plants grow out. It's a miracle that the plants lived. I am one of those people that can kill a plant just by looking at it.
Update: Over a year ago and things are going good. My fish are happy and healthy and breeding like crazy.
First I'm jealous all all your 20longs. My husband doesn't know it yet, but I have a secret plan to stack 20 longs...right now ai have a 5, 10, and just got my first 20l for my birthday. He may figure it out when I ask for my 2nd at Christmas. --- anyhow - what kind of plants do you use? I have a few anubias i haven't killed and have a jave fern but just started moving everything from plastic to planted (around a month same as the 20). -- would appreciate advice from someone recently there
@@Loralanthalas I use anubias. I had Amazon sword but I looked at them and they died. I have been trying to find a good home for my fish, tanks and everything. My health problems are making it hard to keep them as clean as I want to. I live in an attic and it's hard to carry thany many gallons of water upstairs.
jokes on the guy in the beginning, I keep myyyy betta in a .75 gallon tank with one rock one plant and tap water which I put Pantene conditioner, a filter that i built myself made out of plastic and my betta's tears.
He still ded tho
I have two male bettas that share a 10-gallon tank (obviously their sides are separated and they can’t see each other)... and my grandma has bettas as well but for just about all my life she’s kept her fish in a 1.5 gallon tub that was once a container used for cheese puffs.. without a heater, no filter, and nothing else in the tub other than water and the fish and a little light... it makes me so sad to see it because all he does is sit there and most likely just sleeps constantly due to boredom... back in January my grandma had to stay with us for a long time so I tried to offer to put her fish in one of the other small unused 2.5 gallon tanks I have but she said it was ok... but all I could think was no it’s not ok 😭 I don’t know how she’s able to get them to live 3.5+ years
9:38 - 11:53 the sound suddenly cut out, idk if maybe that's just my phone acting weird or not, but the rest of the sound is still good!
Same thing happened to me
Same
Can't believe i had to scroll this far to find this comment
I don't know about that betta fish in the beginning if it connects to one of those boxes that it's dead but if it's one of those lines that connect to the river then it could have probably lived
0:17 the other fish went like: GREG!!!! WHAT THE-
I don’t toss the fish until its white in the eye and floating. If there was any ammonia build up, I’ve never noticed because I don’t have any other fish in the tank.
My cousin killed one of his two giant 6 in goldfish that was in his absolutely algae filled 5 gallon.
Edit: + rainbow gravel
yikes :(
@@FishForThought I know
I was in my local fish store and people where buying a £10 tank about 1 gallon and I wish the pet store would just decline them from buying this unless they put a nerite snail in there 😂
haha xD
Tbh nerites only should live in the wild, there's almost no way to provide them with the correct mix of saltwater and freshwater; MAYBE a shrimp and a black helmet
sarasthoughts nerites are brackish?
карэн - mayor of tomato town yes
OmarGainz oh, i honestly didn’t know that. it’s weird because they’re so popular but i only know a few brackish keepers
13:56- The end of Batman vs Superman, everyone cries not for superman, but for that betta.
:(((
@@FishForThought fish 9:45 your sound cut out
2:21 Ohhhh yes my mom fell for that aquarium and so did I...
For about 3 months I had a betta live in that crap. When things went awry, only then did I realize the mistake I had made in getting that thing.
I now have a filtered and heated 5-gallon with dense vegetation and plenty of decoration. Betta loves it.
pretty nice!!!
My betta went from a 1.6 gallon tank with a few fake plants and a leaf plant to..
a 10 gallon tank with 1 kuhli loach, driftwood, a lot of live plants and a log.
tiktok user: *puts betta in toilet for a video*
betta: jokes on u imma have a betta life in the shitter than in ur shitteree of a """""""""tank"""""""""
lmao xD
My betta has a nice tank, I got my first betta when I was 9 it was actually 2 days before my b day!!! My dad got me a fish and he lived for about 5 months or so, now I have a new betta and he is very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ps no I’m not still 9 or 10... that was a while ago...
Auctually according to Google your toilet does not go to the sewers
Girl: *thinks it’s dead*
Girl: *puts fish in toilet*
Fish: >>>> *moving and swimming*
Also fish: DO I LOOK DEAD??? IM OUTTA HER-
... I have the tank shown at 2:17 (not in use, I promise) from my dorm room days. Not proud of myself, but at least I put a tiny filter and heater in, and did my water changes. I eventually did move that betta into a 10 gallon when I went back to living at home.
I can't imagine flushing a fish. I burried my beta under a rosebush, my cat visits him every day, even 3 years later. She was crying and attacking me when I emptied his tank, they loved each other more than anything.
Idk if it’s just me but did anyone’s audio cut off at like the middle of the video and then come back after a few minutes? Or is it just me?
no it's everyone ! according to the comments it used to not have audio issues to probably copyrighted audio that has ''recently'' been cut out by youtube automatically
The video with the betta totally happens. I have had it happen two separate times in my life. The first time was my pea puffer when I was 10. It was completely dead looking in the tank but once it hit the toilet water it started swimming. I brought it back to its tank and it stopped moving again. It did not come back when my mom put it back in the toilet again. More recently I started my first fish tank as an adult. I got a "shrimp-proof" filter to protect my chili rasboras but it still sucked one up. I ran the filter in the sink and it swam but it did not swim in the tank. It sadly passed after like 10 minutes in the sink. I replaced the filter with a sponge filter and all of my fish are happy and healthy now. It felt terrible knowing that the filter killed them.
One of my old mates had a fish bowl (at most 1 gallon) with 2 baby lion head and a Male beta fish. No heater, one fake plant and just enough gravel to cover the bottom. I told them it was a bad idea and tried to educate them that betas are tropical and can’t be housed with goldfish and that bowl was far too small. They didn’t believe me and said they were going to listen to the pet shop smh. About a month later the beta took out one of the lion heads eyes and she returned it to the pet shop, hopefully he found a better home. And as far as I know to this day those goldfish are still in the same gallon bowl (this was about a year ago). Also to make matters worse she was texting me the same day asking about water conditioner. I told her she needed to set up the tank and it’ll be a long while before she can add fish. Same day she’s down the pet shop and goes home with a bowl and the 2 lion heads. Some people just don’t want to learn
I found it isn't so much bettas don't like big tanks, more they don't like wide open spaces found in big tanks. Large tanks that overgrown with plants that also have floating plants will have a happy Betta.
If you want to keep your betta in a large tank and don't want to do live plants, pop plastic plants off their base and they will float
Chris seeing my comments on these older videos is like finding a kuhli loach in a tank you thought was empty months ago.
Chris: What are you doing in there? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN EATING?
*Me stuffing months old videos in my face.*
*fish near the ground super still for 6 seconds*
Tiktokers: coffin dance
9:39-11:54 FACTS DUDE
yes
Green algae in a tank is not always bad. As long as your water parameters is ok. It just means that there is too much light.
If the water parameters is showing high nitrates/nitrites/ammonia, then that is bad.
Algae is a plant, it eats up extra nutrients. Slimy and not aesthetically pleasing but not always bad.
Uugghh these beautiful tanks make me wanna hide mine from the world xD i love trying to make my tanks full on natural but my plants grow then they just go "SIKE" and die on me and makes my tank look like the pits of death valley >.> even tho my fish r still alive and well
Same
Try moss balls! Those suckers can survive the apocalypse
7:19
that fish is there most likely temporarly, untill its gonna be eaten.
When the volume cut out I thought it was just my phone lol
i recently found your channel and have been watching all your old videos! wish i had pictures of my old betta tank to show you. i had a 75 gallon planted and hard scaped tank with several community fish in it that i think you would’ve loved (for the scape, maybe not the betta being in a 75 lol). i had roughly 30 fish total. i didn’t know there was such thing as too large of a tank for bettas. it went strong for almost 2 years. but then i gave birth to my son and got too overwhelmed to take care of it for a few months and an ammonia spike (now i know from being over fed) eventually ended up wiping out the whole tank :( i tried fixing the tank for several months through water changes and just couldn’t save it. i learned a lot with that tank.
Those little tiny tanks would be perfect to attach inside a big tank with current to give the smaller fish a place to rest. Could make it really cool looking. I use glass vases in my 200 gallon goldfish take to give the 1 fancy a place to get away from the current. He uses them all the time.
I just started watching your videos 2 days ago and I can’t stop watching!❤️
Thank you for the support! Glad you like the content!!
When I was around 7 my mom got us a goldfish and a small fish tank. That poor fish died in 2 weeks. I still feel bad. We ended up getting 3 little guppies that lived for years.
I'm pretty late but here are my experiences.
Sooo I went to a mall and decided to go to a pet shop there.
I was looking at fish supplies and I noticed a pet shop employee dangling his hand on top of the frickin tank of flowerhorn fishes
and guess what,
a fish jumped out of the tank and onto the floor. 😒 He wasn't feeding them whatsoever, he just put his hand on top of the tank, sorta teased the fishes, and got shocked when one jumped out. sigh.
Also, some bettas are kept in a really really small containers, they can barely move and the others on a small tank are pretty much dying, dead, or slightly healthy.
Though I think that like 80 percent of the fish on the small tanks are healthy, (from what I saw) I don't think they even bother to remove or treat the dying/sick/dead ones.
This other experience was in a pet shop near our house. My brother brought home three betta fishes. He got them from a close friend of his and were kept in cut glass bottles and from what I have seen in a facebook betta group, a tank for a betta should be at least 2.5 gallons. I went to that pet store and me and my siblings debated on which tank we should get, a 15 gallon tank that we will divide in three, or three 2.5 gallon tanks. The pet store guy said cups are okay and are all they need and offered one of those small,plastic tank divided in three. I declined and decided to get the three 2.5 gallon tanks. They keep bettas in plastic cups, a pet frog in dirty water with leftover food all over, didn't clean cats' litter boxes, Don't worry, the cats were sold already. Y'all may say that we shouldn't have purchased from there, but it was the closest and cheapest store here. Also, I didn't have much of a choice cause we drove there already and the bettas were in those cups for a long amount of time.
As a "pirate ship" fanatic,and a bigginer fish keeper ,I gotta say 5:51 DAMN THAT GALLEON THO,
"tik tok betta care cant get any worse"..
Millenials: ... JUST WAIT
LMAO Generation Z here we coooome
Sound keeps cutting on at the quad betta setup
god I hate tiktok
Who doesnt
And those tiktok girls in class. They disgust me.
The ads WTF how would someone go oh that crap looks good
@@breackingbad9042 SAME
I agree with the comment at the beginning of the video even though I keep a betta in a tank without rocks. In my defense, the tank and the betta being housed in it are intended for breeding and I don't have rocks because I had bred goldust mollies in the past and some of the babies got stuck in the tank's rocks and I'd prefer not having that kind of situation again. Before anyone thinks to ask, I have a sponge filter, a heater, a cave for him to hide in and a snail to help keep the tank clean, and the tank itself is above 2.5 gallons.
God creating gold fish
God: ok make it a brown fish
Angel: ok
God: now make humans breed them to be a orange color
Angel: a bit weird but ok
God: now make humans throw them into 0.1 gallon tanks
Angel: what the f-
God: DO IT
Angel: y-yes sir
LMAOOO
Chris on Insta: *4k pictures and videos*
Chris on youtube: *480P webcam*
LMAO I'm ded
Your sound cut out around 9:38 not sure if it was just for me and came back around 11:52. This has happened on a couple other videos. But my sweatshirt should be here Friday I'm so excited! Corigang!lol
One thing about bettas - they don't really have a 'minimum'. Maybe a 100 gal is a little too much for them? HOWEVER - they need hides! They want a heavily planted tank, i.e. a tank that you can't see from one side to the other because of the plants. They do also need a slow flow, but you will certainly have that if you have enough plants that you can't see through the tank.
5-10 is a good starting point because it's easy to get enough plants to completely fill it, but you could get a HUGE aquarium for one. In the wild a betta might have a territory a quarter of a square acre. That's a lot of water.
I might be a betta nerd.
Thats true, but most bettas nowadays have nothing in common with the wild betta anymore, they've been bred for decades. You could get them a 100 gollon tank, but it would be a lot to plant tbh and for most other fish, too much plants and most bettas don't go well with a community. It stresses them and shortens the life. I keep mine in 20 gallons each, not small, a godd territory to keep and still able to swim trough with huge fins.
Wild bettas ,giant bettas and plakat bettas can keep bigger territory without getting exhausted too fast.
The 4 tanks supposedly for bettas looks more like a brine shrip breading rack
*Fish suffering*
Chris: That ends now!!!!
omoi wa mou shindeiru
@@FishForThought Japanese!! Nice. I'm done too. Fish abuse is unacceptable
It's smart to ask for like at the start of a video. A lot of people don't watch the end of video's with the standard "thanks for liking commenting ang sharing blablabla"
And your genuine reaction is amazing :) That's why I want to like your videos twice.
Thank you for this feedback Erika!!!
The girl who's fish had a "suicide mission" made another video, she yelled the fishes name (Georgina) and the fish swam out, I dont remember of she got him out tho. :/
WhAt shOw mE
@@axolotl786 just look up her tik tok name lol
Hmm... That's not a nice way to call your fish... You're supposed to say thier name in a calm, loving, clear voice. It's definitely possible to teach certain fish to recognize thier names, but it shouldn't ever be used to scold them with. Never punish a fish, just give them positive reinforcement when they behave properly. The poor babies don't know better, and they only learn to be afraid from punishment...
I have been really scared to add live plants to my tank because every time i have added them to my tanks they have killed all of my fish, I dont know if its the store because they do keep fish with the selection of plants, maybe even if you wash the plants they still carry a disease or something..
Usually it's fine! Just gotta go to a better fish store haha
What if you like, connected all the small tanks and it was kinda funky looking, but collectively it would be 5 gallons or more. Fish has access to all the tanks, it's just the tank is awkward and has different levels? Idk how one would put it together?
So... i have an issue. I cant grow algae. Ive tried raising light hours to 14 hours a day increasing ferts and everything. Nothing worked. My plants always suck up the nutrients too quickly. I dont know what I'm doing wrong. Or right. Its all my heavily planted tanks that don't grow any algae
*JEE-Zus! I was taking a nap! I gotta be in perpetual motion just to get any respect in this house!*
-Louis C.K. on the topic of goldfish
he says can't wait for the plants to grow..... some random person off tiktok: posts a cloudy, algae-filled tank saying "this has a lot of plants in!"
That second white tank is super cute, but definitely not for a fish. I would totally get it and put a plant or two in it though, or maybe a small snail/shrimp. As long as there’s some maintenance items out there for it, like a filter, heater, etc.
My bet on shrimp, unless it was a small snail, it would probably poop too much
8:39 oh god wait it’s so pretty! imagine putting in some blue or very contrasty fish or black fish and oh god i want this tank lmaO
I love the look to live plants but I either have them make the tank really algae filled or infest my tank with snails... how do I stop this???
I always changed the water once a week.. at most would go a fortnight when I was busy or lazy one week and wasn't that dirty (40L with a betta)
I recommend quarantining your plants and putting out snail traps
It can take up to a week but its great
I also personally use nirite snails and aquarium salt to keep blooms down works like a charm I have to put a waffer in every so often esp after water changes when theres a salt load in the system but they are very happy in the planted tank
My betta ended up dying.. not sure why may have been from old age or just me not realising the signs of what's wrong. Pet shop kept telling me it wasn't fin got even though he wasn't getting any better but.. haha thanks anyway!
@@kaylarose9012 we cant save them all
Betta: Mission failed, we'll get him next time.
xD
My friend put her betta in a REALLY small tank, and her excuse is “I don’t feel like paying for a bigger tank” IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT THEN DON’T KEEP A BETTA, and then she complains about how she thinks he’s dead sometimes and that he isn’t very active! When she puts him in this little .5 gallon tank!
My fish tank has 1 betta, two african dwarf frogs and a snail they get along great
I saw about a 10 gallon tank with about 7 gold fish in my local Chinese restaurant the water is brown and it has no wood
The other day I was moving some young guppies. I set the net on the counter and came back half an hour to fourty minutes later only to realize I left a fish in the net. I assumed he was dead and dumped him in the toilet. He started swimming around and now he's safely back in his tank.
that's probably the bigest place that betta saw in his life
My betta tank is a 10 gallon tank divided in half so there is 5 gallons on each side ( the tank already has a heater, filter, gravel, and shorter dequor), for the holidays I will be putting in live plants for my one betta (I never got to getting another betta) and adding in a few tank mates . I have a backup plan if the tank mates do not work . I do not have a plant type substrait, but will be using a weekly aquarium plant fertilizer .please do not tell me to get a plant substrate, I know it would be beneficial for the plants but seen as this is my first planted aquarium I would like to see if it will work withought .the fertilizer is called LeafZone by API . I am open to ideas on how to improve my tank .
I still feel bad for a goldfish i killed when i was 4 my mum had taught me to look after them and i now look after my 2 own planted tanks since last year so the story is when i was 4 we had a googly eye black goldfish we had always looked after dogs, so my mum came down to find me dragging a poor goldfish on a leash because I thought they needed exercise i meant well but the fish sadly died and i use this as my example to care for my fish after my mum had to give up and sold the tank and once i became 16 i decided to retake up old hobbys and decided a fish tank would be good to help me study and now i have a 5 gallon a 15-20 gallon and a 10 gallon which is the one i look after for my mum all tropical tanks planted
Imagine thinking the fish was dead
lmao right
Moron Alert.🚨🚨🚨🚨
This happened to me with a Cory. Thought he was dead. He wasn’t moving at all even when netted. He moved as soon as he hit the toilet water. I felt AWFUL! Did manage to save him. Have had him three years since. I now know he’s apparently a deep sleeper.
7:05 how many gallons is this turtle/goby tank? Looks like a fun tank. I have a long 55 gallon and I’d love this❤
If you find an LFS where they tell you buying something is probably not a good idea, make that your designated store because they obviously care more about the care of the stock more than making a quick penny. I have a designated fish store for my Marine aquarium, I attribute it a lot to my success.
Nice video
thanks!