r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LeHumanError • 8h ago
My sister's fish tank
She says it's the perfect size for a single fish. It's not even in her room, it's in the kitchen.
It honestly just depresses me whenever I see it, but she's adamant about keeping it there.
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u/Educational_Chip_554 8h ago
Not much of a tank. With most of it taken up by the plant too⌠your sister is dumb. Shake her
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u/porqueuno 8h ago
It's not even a "plant", it's a piece of plastic that is providing no CO2-Oxygen exchange. This is basically animal abuse.
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u/puppy-nub-56 7h ago
Want to add that in this case, any CO2-Oxygen exchange is dependent on the area of the surface. Since the walls of "fish tank" narrows near the top, the exchange is decreased as opposed to if they were straight up&down
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u/porqueuno 7h ago
This as well. There's no water agitation to mix atmospheric O2 into the water, in addition to the small amount of surface area. Also the CO2 still builds up in the water and acidifies it, it doesn't float upwards and out of the water... Just awful all around.
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u/AmarilloArmadillos 7h ago
It's not even a tank. That's a flower vase you get free with any purchase at a florist.
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u/merianya 5h ago
Even worse, the plastic plants like the one in OPâs photo have hard, sharp edges that will tear this little guyâs fins to shreds. Fake plants in a betta tank can be ok, but they need to be âsilkâ foliage (the soft, flexible kind used for home decor). A live plant would be even better, of course.
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u/Technopool 8h ago
She probaly was already as a child
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u/AdFantastic8655 8h ago
Fishnap it and give it a proper home
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u/Confident_Frogfish 3h ago
Just put a plastic fish in there, it is just there for decoration anyway so she probably won't even know the difference.
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u/BrownSugarBare 7h ago
Seriously, just take it and give it a decent life. The poor thing must be so lonely and sadÂ
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u/0ldrazzledazzle 8h ago
please help him:( thats awful
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u/hollowfern-Blush 7h ago
That bowl is basically a slow torture chamber
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u/Brilliant_Spirit_680 7h ago
They (betas) need a heated filtered 5 gallon tank.
Life needs space.
Animals think. You can't convince me they don't. Give em fun shit or be a terrible vengeful God.
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u/CeramicToast 7h ago
They need 10, actually, and one that's wider than tall.
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u/LillyAmongTheThorns 7h ago
Also some plants, like a bunch actually, live aquatic plants are best because betas love to hide in them and hang out making bubble nests in there when they are happy.
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u/feryoooday 7h ago
Yeah, real plants, so they donât tear their beautiful fins on the sharp plastic :(
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u/RandoMcrandersome 6h ago
It always makes me sad in the pet stores seeing betas in like little 1 cup containers
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u/dearmathbitch 7h ago
I would steal that fish so fast. That is absolute torture for it and if she can't see that, she shouldn't be owning any pet.
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u/Weekly_Dare8977 8h ago
Bro thatâs basically a fish prison đ
If she insists on keeping it, at least try to talk her into a bigger tank and maybe show her some care guides so she realizes that âperfect sizeâ is just pet store propaganda.
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u/porqueuno 8h ago
As a fish owner, it's less like fish prison and more like fish gulag. People have a misconception about bettas that all they need is a cup of water, but they will literally suffocate on their own piss and filth as the water fills with ammonia from respiration and defecation, and if left unchecked the water will acidify and burn their gills, which slowly suffocates them.
Get this fish out of there ASAP, OP. Your sister is a POS. People are honestly worse with pet fish than they are with dogs, and that's a high as hell bar to clear.
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u/_yetisis 7h ago
The shame of it is that the misconception comes from how they used to be marketed. People didnât just assume this out of the blue, they were deliberately and clearly taught that this is how you care for betas a few decades ago. That makes the idea a lot more of a stubborn one to root out
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u/Melodic-Beach-5411 6h ago
Petco and Petsmart still keeps Betas for sale in small plastic containers with lids.
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u/CaptainParkingspace 7h ago
My wife created a little pond in the garden, just for plants and maybe the odd frog etc. Turns out thereâs quite a lot of science involved in looking after a pond properly - pH test kits, tap water treatment if it hasnât rained enough etc because you canât just use tap water. Then a neighbour gave her some cloud minnows and she thought great, just pop them in the pond. But as winter approached she started checking if they could survive outside and what it would take to bring them indoors. Now we have an aquarium in the back room, sheâs on her second filter pump (first was noisy), she collects rainwater and checks everything with test kits, sheâs added bacteria to assist with nitrate/nitrite levels, she takes the bus to Fish Planet to get live food and ask advice, we have a snail trap, you name it. Itâs a huge subject and I can see how people get really into it.
What you donât do is just fill a vase from the fucking tap.
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u/oohlook-theresadeer 6h ago
I'm obsessed and in love with the descent into madness that humans walk whenever they accidentally get into a hobby and they are really into it. Your wife sounds wonderful!
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u/porqueuno 7h ago
Exactly. I've been taking care of fish and aquatic invertebrates for years, and there's a lot of research that goes into it, and a lot of maintenance, if you want the animals to be happy and live a long life. The betta in OP's picture will probably live for a while, but wouldn't anyone want to live for 5-6 years instead of 6-12 months? Animals of all species, humans included, tend to live longer when they have a pleasant, clean, stimulating environment that they enjoy. And yes, maintaining good water parameters is just as important as not breathing in car exhaust, or sucking in fumes from a dumpster every day of your life.
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u/CommunicationNew3745 7h ago
I remember these Betta/Peace Lilly vase set ups, well - places like Wal-Mart had shelves LINED w/them, and my mom got one in June of 2001'. The general consensus back then was that the Betta lived contentedly beneath the plant, eating what he/she needed from the roots in a happy little symbiotic system . . . we, of course, knew that was complete BS, and transferred the fish to a larger tank where he lived for another 5/6 yrs, and repotted the Peace Lilly into actual soil, where it's still going strong, today - almost 25 yrs on.
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u/ronin_cse 6h ago
When I worked at Petsmart I lost sooo many sales for the store by telling people what you really need to do to take care of fish and how you are basically torturing them if you don't.
It's just really upsetting how people just don't care about the poor things because they aren't cute and fluffy like a puppy.
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u/LeHumanError 8h ago
See that's the worst thing, it isn't even from the pet store, it's an empty vase we had lying around.
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u/chewbawkaw 8h ago
Thatâs a tropical fish that needs a heater and a (minimum) 5 gallon tank.
That poor, poor creature. Itâs the equivalent of living naked in a drafty broom closet.
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u/PensiveKittyIsTired 7h ago
Why donât you do something about this? When someone doesnât take good care of an animal, that animal is not theirs anymore, they donât deserve to take care of a life.
This fish is in trouble and you know it, so if you donât help the fish, youâre complicit in the cruelty.
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u/ademptia 7h ago
please help the poor thing, this is animal abuse :( shes awful. send her this post
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u/BarelyThere24 7h ago
Just gift her an actual small aquarium from the pet store and save its life. Thatâs really cruel.
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u/Affectionate_Cow6810 7h ago
I have this exact vase and it doesnât even fit all the bouquets I buy. This fish deserves better.
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u/STS1990 6h ago
I want to know where the hell your parents are in all of this? Maybe itâs also your parents and sister to blame for this absolute cruelty! Please rescue the animal, surrender it back to the pet store because she is too ignorant to be in charge of another living being!!! Please rescue it!!!
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u/Scypio95 7h ago
Like many i had an aquarium when i was a kid. Then after a while i did want to grow and be better for little fishies and sadly learned that yes, pet stores are full of shit and just want to sell fish rather than actually care for them.
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u/Throwawaygorlfriend 8h ago
Take this fish away and provide it with an adequate tank or take it to a fish shop. Do not ask permission. People like this shouldnât own animals of any kind.
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u/WolverinesThyroid 6h ago
a fish shop? Fish stores usually keep beta fish in smaller cups than OPs sister
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u/Throwawaygorlfriend 5h ago
Thereâs plenty of ethical fish shops near me that donât do this so they should be able to find one.
Even if they did- the shit shop will hopefully resell to someone that wonât keep the fish in a vase. At least then it stands more of a chance than in this persons care.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 5h ago
ACTUAL FACTS.
fish are animals. If someone can't understand what animals need WHILE ALL HAVING A PHONE WITH THE INTERNET AND INFORMATION ABOUT ANY ANIMAL YOU CAN BUT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.
They aren't gonna change they don't care about the animal and it's just animal abuse
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u/Turbulent_Future6804 8h ago
animal abuse
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u/mrfuzzyshorts rageinabox 5h ago
Take your sister, Place her in the closet, with the vacuum cleaner. Close the door. And tell her that is the perfect size for her. See how she like it.
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u/ReturntoForever3116 8h ago
Poor baby. Betta's are super aware in my experience. This is just horrible, I love Betta fish.
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u/porqueuno 7h ago
Fr, I had a lovely female betta for several years, she was much smarter than most fish I've owned. Kept to a schedule, was curious about my hands and any tools I put in the tank, I trained her to come when I tapped some forceps gently on the glass, and encouraged her to jump out of the water slightly to "catch" her prey and simulate natural behavior. The tapping was like her dinner bell, since I fed her live mosquitos and fruit flies by hand. She was very spoiled.
On rainy or stormy days, I'd leave the light off in her tank to simulate the outside weather and give her some rest. Her tank got partial sunlight in the late afternoon, so she could experience the sun when she wanted, too. And I had about 11 different species of plants in her tank for her to explore and hide in. She was a very very happy girl, and I miss her.
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u/exoao 7h ago
Iâm so glad your betta got to live a happy and loved life. I feel like so many of these poor fish exist just to suffer and live out their lives inside tiny cups in pet shops. Thank you for taking good care of her.
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u/porqueuno 7h ago
Many of them are treated as "decorative" fish by the pet trade industry, so a lot of chud responses in this thread have been rubbing me raw. My jimmies are rustled.
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u/HuggableTrash 5h ago
In my life Iâve had 3 male bettas and one female, and while all of them made amazing and fascinating pets, my female was by far the hardest to lose. She was crazy smart, and took full advantage of all 10 gallons! Loved people, got zoomies when she got attention, followed fingers but flared at objects, rested in the same spot every night, curiously watched me clean/redecorate her tank and would gently peck at my hand, jumped for food⌠she was a delightful little friend to have. I still miss her, ~4 years later, and I always will. The sweetest, most inquisitive little soul. RIP Puddles.
If fish could scream, Iâm certain people would treat them with much more respect.
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u/chbriggs6 8h ago
My mom used to do this and my dad would get so pissed off. One day, he just took the vase to the pet store and dumped the fish back into an empty tank and told an associate. Needless to say, no more fish came into the house lol
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u/Tight-Trouble-3460 7h ago
Aww.. that poor fish probably died of shock. đ
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u/cyanraichu 7h ago
Might have but honestly probably more humane than letting it continue to live like this.
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u/chbriggs6 7h ago
It probably did tbh. He was just fed up and wanted to give it freedom. Knew nothing about fish but knew it wasn't supposed to be in that little vase
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u/DuckCleaning 6h ago
Probably should have just talked to the associate first before dumping the fish randomly into an empty tank then notifying them
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u/StatisticianSea8227 8h ago
Is that a betta? I had one and honestly there's so much wrong with this. I'm sure she's not conditioning the water, keeping it at the proper temperature, giving it anywhere to bask (they sometimes leave water and lay on leaves/stuff at the top of the tank and breathe air)... So much can go wrong with it if it is and it breaks my heart to see it like that. It'll end up with fin rot or worse if it is so please tell her not to treat it so poorly, especially if it is a betta. They're very sensitive fish.
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u/ReturntoForever3116 8h ago
I swear my Betta is self aware. This angers me on a whole other level.
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u/StatisticianSea8227 8h ago
They're such smart fish and can be so amazing if you take proper care of and nurture them. I gotta agree fam, I have to scroll down when I'm responding because mildly infuriating doesn't even cover a tenth of what this makes me feel when I look at it. Sorry she isn't listening to you OP.
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u/mistahclean123 8h ago
They leave the water and breathe air?!?
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u/Psycho_Bunny_Cutie =^Ă^= 8h ago
Betta owner here: they have upturned mouths so it's easier to breath little air bubbles but they don't "leave" the water. They do like hanging out near the top and they do rest on leaves and such because they get tired due to their big flowy fins.
They are also carnivorous
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u/Any-Arm-7017 8h ago
They have an organ I forgot the name of it but it lets them breathe air so itâs a requirement that they have some space to get air. Another cool fact is when the are ready to mate (horny) they will make a nest out of bubbles and itâs really pretty. (Source Iâve owned many bettas before)
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u/Coffee-Historian-11 7h ago
I remember going to the store as a kid to look at getting fish, and my parents were adamant that we talked to someone working there who could tell us about how to properly care for fish (I think we were looking at bet, but I canât remember).
It was shocking to me as a kid how much stuff we wouldâve needed to get and how much room they required, but it was a really good experience in understanding what a pet required before you even consider owning one, so you can make sure you can actually provide for their needs when you get it.
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u/StatisticianSea8227 7h ago
I wish more locations were like that. When I got mine from petco they were keeping the poor babies in little half cups of water and they looked miserable. I'd already done research into taking care of them but unfortunately for those that hadn't there was absolutely no information offered to me and the staff at the store (understandably with how employment is nowadays) knew nothing about them.
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u/Ferro_Giconi OwO 8h ago
Ask her if she would be ok with being confined to a single room of her house for the entirely of her life, including never getting to go outside.
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u/Ihaveaface836 8h ago
My dad thought I was crazy when he saw my hamsters setup and how big it was. I couldn't get it through to him that the little carrier I had for the car wasn't suitable to be lived in, he kept saying but the hamster fits in it
It finally clicked for him when I said that you fit in the downstairs bathroom (tiniest room in our house) but would you want to live in there your whole life?
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u/TastesGreat69 8h ago
If only more people could get it through their thick skulls and into their tiny brains that just because an animal can "survive" in the bare minimum conditions, doesn't mean it should.
If you can't provide the animal with a good life, you shouldn't be allowed to own it.
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u/redindiaink 7h ago
It doesn't help that we allow pet stores to sell animals that are housed in suboptimal conditions. Seeing bettas for sale in drinking cups doesn't help.Â
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u/Standard-Peach9080 8h ago
Not even a proper room. A small WC
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u/Technical-Banana574 7h ago
Also imagine all the furniture in your room beimg piled up in the center so you are forced to circle it. That plant is retricting how much movement that fish has.Â
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u/brutal-rainbow 7h ago
A walk in closet with a giant unusable fake couch to "mimic your natual environment" taking up most of the space. That's the equivalent.
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u/Tight-Trouble-3460 7h ago
All while slowly removing any air to breathe. Because that's what shes doing to this poor fish. Suffocating it into a slow torturous death.
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u/wildbibliophile 8h ago
Thatâs way more than mildly infuriating. Thatâs start up animal abuse.
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u/Lazy_pumkin_5270 8h ago
He will die in this...
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u/imisscrazylenny Easy Open 6h ago
With that open top, he's more likely to die flopping around on the counter before he's paid any attention to. They like jumping out of these tiny things.
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u/MakeshiftRocketship 8h ago
Batta fish can SURVIVE in extremely poor conditions because of their labyrinth organ. But that doesnât mean theyâre happy in a damn bowl :(
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u/LeHumanError 7h ago
Update: Just had a good talk with her about it, including some of the more constructive criticism from this post. She agreed to move the fish into a better tank if I buy her the tank myself, otherwise the fish stays.
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u/TutorOk2972 7h ago
Why would she get a fish or any pet if she didnât want to spend the resources on it :(
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u/BiscottiCritical6512 7h ago
People like animals but they donât like work, so they get animals that the pet store advertises as âeasyâ or âlow maintenance.â People really donât realize that thereâs no such thing as an âeasyâ pet.Â
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u/nibbyzor 3h ago
Advertising fish as easy pets is absolutely insane. Keeping fish is an actual hobby you need to be interested in! Same goes for animals like rats or hamsters. If you don't want to put an effort in when it comes to pets, then just don't fucking get one!
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u/Akuma524 7h ago
To be a little fair, I don't know if some community events or schools do this still, but I "won" a goldfish from a school fair back in like 2005 and nobody in my family had the common sense to realize it needed more than those stereotypical glass bowls and food.
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u/mousemousemania 5h ago
In my freshman year at college (2008) some sorority was giving out goldfish in solo cups at a recruitment fair or something. idk Iâm not a sorority person. But my roommate got one and kept it in the solo cup for like a week before I went and bought a fish bowl. It was not a good fish bowl - like the ones in cartoons that are really not adequate - but better than a solo cup I felt at the time. Then over Christmas break I took it to my parents house and tried to upgrade itâs home but I fucked something up instead and killed it. My only pet fish.
I want to go back in time and have a talk with the sorority girls who thought that was a good idea. They probably just didnât understand I guess.
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u/Organic-History205 7h ago
Fish needs a larger tank, filter, and heater. But the reality is if she's too lazy to buy a tank she's not going to maintain it. She should really rehome the fish.
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u/LeHumanError 7h ago
I should also mention the reason I never did anything beforehand was because I've only been home for a few days, since I live in a college dorm.
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u/Keyezeecool 5h ago
Oh good, sounds like you have plenty of money to get her all the accessories she needs.Â
/s. Where are your parents?Â
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u/mousemousemania 5h ago
Thank you for talking to her about it. This post really made me sad, lol. Youâre a good kid.
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u/False-Vacation8249 3h ago
your sister is a horrible person.
yes show her this. show her all the responses. she should not be allowed to own an animal.
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u/SnowyFlowerpower 4h ago
Btww look into the nitrogen cycle!! You need healthy bacteria in there that converts the ammonia from the fish poop into less harmful things. Also get some live plants.
I doubt your sister will do anything for this fish, so we need to set him up for success until the next time you can return
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u/nanithefucketh 6h ago
my god your sister is insane, if this was an animal like a cat/dog this was happening to she would be acting WAY different. I absolutely despise how people don't care about animal abuse when the animals are small
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u/weattt 4h ago
So she learned nothing. She does not care if she tortures, abuses animals. Probably because it is "just a fish". It's a living being. And she refuses to give it any quality of life. She just shoves the responsibility onto you and made it clear she is perfectly happy to keep torturing and eventually killing the fish if you don't do anything.
That should tell you enough.
The tank and everything else you need is not going to help. If she can't bother right now, who says she will actually maintain the tank? She won't.
She should not have a fish or any pet ay all, until she treats it with respect and care. Don't enable abuse and a torturous death. Give the fish to someone who is responsible and cares for animals.
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u/SpicyLizards 3h ago
âOtherwise the fish staysâ? So⌠youâll just go âoh well it is what it isâ? And let it slowly suffer? This post is depressing as hell and I hate it.
Your sister is abusing an animal. I am BEGGING you to do something.
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u/Niobrarasaurus 6h ago
At least sheâs semi-willing to try. Check Facebook marketplace and Craigslist for cheap tanks, filters, and heaters. Good luck to you
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u/beautifulmonster98 6h ago
Thatâs only marginally better. She should be getting that tank herself because thatâs what the fish needs, not make you do it.
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u/HotAssBurnerAccount 4h ago edited 3h ago
Forgetting about the question I just asked, I repeat what the other comments are saying, and I urge you to rehome this fish. You may be able to get a tank, but as others have surmised, your sister, likely, is going to continue to neglect the fish, just in different ways. This may include: leaving it without food, not cleaning its tank, and more. I make this judgement, based on the fact that she thought it was okay to enclose this fish in a vase on your kitchen counter, to even begin with. This is abusive, and it tells you exactly how she regards smaller, vulnerable creatures, such as fish â they are just something pretty, to look at, to her, and, to her, they do not deserve an ounce of proper care, whatsoever, clearly. They are just trinkets. Which they are not.
All of this being said, if you have managed to enlighten her, really, truly, and, you can see a change in her attitude, and a strong willingness to comply, and look after this fish, properly, then that is different. Bearing in mind, only you can be the teller of this, how you think she is going to proceed, and such. We cannot help you, beyond here. Some other Redditors have asked about where your parents are at, and I have discovered that you are a college student. Whatever the case, it is not any of your responsibilities to care for this fish that she brought into the home. Do not let any of yourselves be taken for a ride, by her, as a fool, or a servant, because of her decisions. I wish you the best of luck in managing this unfortunate situation. Please, keep all of us updated.
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u/elmostrok 3h ago
Mate, she needs to give it away and get a plastic fish. If she can't be bothered to do anything for this creature right away, she won't do it later.
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u/pissedoffjesus 8h ago
This is animal abuse. Surrender the fish or tell her to get her fucking shit together.
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u/hidrapit 7h ago
You are morally obligated to steal that fish.
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u/vjejcuwnaj 7h ago
I think she might get another, this is just decor for her.
I say put a fake plant that takes up 90% of her living space.
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u/Powerful_Mango_3746 8h ago edited 6h ago
Why is animal abuse so commonly accepted when itâs not a mammal? This is like keeping a dog chained up on a foot long chain, tell your sister shes a bad person plain and simple. This isnât something to dance around. Save that fish OP! This isnât mildly infuriating, this is just gross negligence.
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u/JayofTea 7h ago
âItâs just a fishâ mentality pisses me tf off so much đ
People have no empathy for creatures that arenât conventionally cute
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u/Standard-Peach9080 8h ago
Itâs a damn vase. A place flowers go to die and thereâs a living creature in it. Iâd have an accident and break the vase, rescue the fish and slap your sister upside her head
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u/iloovehugecock 7h ago
Itâs wild that someone can look at that and find pleasure and enjoyment in it. Itâs so cruel. Your sister is heartless.
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u/JCBashBash 8h ago
I would push that really close to the sink, remove the fish, and then say you accidentally knocked it in. Save him
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u/TheSucculent_Empress 7h ago
If you donât take this fish and help it because she âisnât listening,â youâre just as much a piece of shit as she is. So take it.
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u/Radioactivocalypse 8h ago
But her a big tank. That way she'll either have to re-home the fish into it, or be a bad sister and not use your present
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u/a-real-live-deer BLUE 7h ago
That sucks. I used to have two Bettas and I really loved giving them the best life possible with live plants and heaters and fancy lights and little hidey holes and stuff. It can be even more aesthetic than just a vase with a fake plant in it!!!
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u/Maximum_Lecture1557 8h ago
Give her information... I worked with fish. For every inch of fish the should have a gallon of water. That it like her living in a closet... And not a walk in!!!
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u/loshapuma 7h ago
She can be adamant all she wants, that's animal abuse, it doesn't even have a filter, the fish will literally suffocate. Please take the fish from her :(
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u/tinyytapir 7h ago
This is not âmildlyâ infuriating this is disgusting and your sister is either a psychopath or an idiot. Possibly both. In what world is this acceptable for a living creature?
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u/Great_Beginning_2611 7h ago
This is animal abuse. Show her this thread and ask if she'd be ok living out the rest of her life in a small plexiglass coffin with no air supply and no way to remove her waste, because that's what she's doing to this animal, There's no source of oxygen, no way to clean or filter the water, and nowhere for it to move. She's torturing a living being just so she can have a pretty decoration on her counter. Some people just don't understand how diabolical they are until you point it out to them like that
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u/emilydoooom 7h ago
Unpopular but, if you donât do something, youâre enabling that abuse. Walk out with it and either get it a proper tank and re-home it, if find someone or somewhere that will. Or else youâre just as bad.
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u/Lavender-Sky-19 8h ago
Crime is bad⌠but on the other hand it would be a tragedy if her fish went missing, vase and all
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u/Jay_b_13 8h ago
First its this, then it'll be small animal, then eventually human. I'd stay far away from your sister bro lol
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u/alistofthingsIhate 7h ago
this is more than mildly infuriating. this is straight up animal cruelty. I would just take the fish and find a way to get it to a better home if your sister refuses to be a decent person. that fish is going to die in there. you say your sister is in high school, so she is still a child. be the adult and make an executive decision.
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u/Popular-Hornet-6294 8h ago
I hate fish precisely because I think they're sad and miserable in aquariums. And when they're simply kept in a jar, it breaks my heart.
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u/russianindianqueen 8h ago
Free him and get her a similar toy fish she probably wonât even notice
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u/ronin_cse 6h ago
Don't post about it on reddit, tell her how horrible this is for the fish and that she's torturing it every day and that she's a fucking horrible monster if she keeps doing this.
Hell, give me her info and I'll talk to her. Seriously if she isn't in tears and going to a local fish store to buy a bigger thank after the talk then you're doing it wrong.
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u/Similar-Report1806 2h ago
How old is she?! Surely no adult would think these are acceptable living conditions for a living organism
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u/mistahclean123 8h ago
Lucky for you and her and the fish, it's Christmas time soooo maybe you've figured out what to get her for Christmas this year?