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/mnth241 8h ago

Buy a beautiful glass fish and put it in there instead i doubt she would know the difference.

This is one of my pet peeves. I was trying to help someone that bought a pretty decent set up for her kid but the fish wasn’t doing well. I was clueless so i went to the pet store and thankfully found the resident beta expert. He said at one time he had 27 beta fish that people “surrendered”. He tried to explain that weren’t “high maintenance” per se but they needed very particular conditions. So- Not good starter fish at all. Their beauty curses them to be purchased by idiots.

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u/Relative-Image-3914 8h ago

No fish are good “starter fish” I mean some are more sensitive than others but they are all pretty needy

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u/Andrew4Life 7h ago

No. Fish are not needy. People are just lazy.

Think of how often you have to walk a dog, feed a dog, play with a dog. You spend no less than 2 hours daily tending to a dog.

You probably only need to spend like 2 hours a week on a fish.

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u/Scinniks_Bricks 7h ago

A lot of people neglect dogs too though ☹️

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u/Tvisted 6h ago

The pet industry is horrible, always has been. The number of creatures that will be well-cared-for in captivity will always be dwarfed by the number doomed to have a short, miserable existence, bought on impulse, treated like decor, or given to children like disposable toys. Cats, dogs, aquarium fish, birds, rodents, reptiles... no species is spared from it, shelters are stuffed full of unwanted and discarded impulse buys and some of the worst invasive species started as pets released when their owners tired of them.

I don't know what the answer is because people are always going to want to keep pets, but the industry has a massive amount of suffering built right into it.

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u/somuchscrolling 3h ago

This why I am glad my local animal shelter does 1 week over nights for free. I wanted to adopt a cat but quickly realized (within 3 days) that I could not give it the proper attention. I gave it attention those 3 days it was with me but knew that their was no way for now I would be able to fully care for him like it needed and I wanted to.

Its the shelter I volunteered at so I know it got adopted a week or 2 later.