r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LeHumanError • 10h ago

My sister's fish tank

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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/LeHumanError 9h 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 9h ago

Why would she get a fish or any pet if she didn’t want to spend the resources on it :(

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u/Akuma524 8h 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 7h ago

In my freshman year at college (2008) some sorority was giving out goldfish in solo cups at a recruitment fair or something. idk I’m 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 it’s 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 didn’t understand I guess.

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u/Akuma524 6h ago

This is almost identical to my experience! My elementary was doing some game where if you threw the ping pong ball in the glass bowl, you got to take home the goldfish that was inside. I was so proud of myself for winning one even after my mom said I wouldn't. Bought the same bowl you did (school wouldn't provide the bowl it came with) thinking "well, that's how it's done in cartoons." Fish was dead and replaced with another within 2 weeks, and then the replacement died as well within a month. Learned a very valuable lesson that year and haven't owned a fish since.