I READ THIS AS "THEY TURNED A FISH INTO A FISH TANK???"

When I first started keeping fish when I was a kid, I begged my mom to help me buy a fish tank and knowing nothing we got a 1.5 gallon tank for 2 "male" guppies (or we thought they were both male). Believing the label at the pet store you can bet how surprised we were when we saw babies. My mom, who was absolutely not buying a bigger tank, left me on my own to worry about the 1.5 gallon that wasn't even big enough for the 2 guppies in the first place. So I created a slightly bigger tank out of about a 5 gallon cheese puff container, (edit: i just realized that 5 gallon cheese puff containers don't exist lol so it was more likely about 2.5 however the thought of a 5 gallon cheese puff container is really funny) even making a place for the small hang on back filter. Still not great, but it worked for the time being until I saved up the money for a 10 gallon for the growing colony. That tank lasted years until white spot disease struck and they all passed on within 2 days lol pretty good first attempt I'd say

When I was younger, my mom went to a wedding on the Queen Mary ship and they had live betas on the table as decoration. My mom ended up questioning the bride and groom on what they planned to do with the betas afterwards and found out they were going to be “disposed of”. My poor mom ended up bringing as many as she could home and we tried to re-home them. Unfortunately I was young and didn’t know what I was doing when it came to fish care. It still pisses me off to this day that they used those poor fish as decorations.

It's to cute how the birds are just chilling one on her shoulder & one on the back of the chair. Reminds me of what my cats will do one will lay on the back of my chair & one will lay between my legs. 🤣

About a week ago I rescued 3 goldies (2 fancies 1 common) from some lady who was moving. She was a heavy indoor smoker, and the tank had no lid which meant there were literal ashes in it (probably mostly from her drunkenly trying to pet them, as she was drunk and still drinking when I got there). The tank is 5 gallons (I bought it along with a 10 gallon setup for $30CAD), and had this sharp resin imitation live rock decoration in it that took up about 1/3 of the space. They couldn’t even turn around without scratching against the decoration, which meant that all 3 of them are missing 3-7 scales each. The tank is so small for them that the 2 fancies have injured their tail fins so that each have 1 that’s bent at about a 45° angle. All three of them are stunted and she’s had them since they were tiny babies. Maybe a couple months old. The common has a small notch out of the front of his dorsal fin from the resin decoration, and had a small tear along the back (which has since healed). When I tested the water is was 7x the deadly amount for nitrites, and 10ppm over the harmful amount of nitrates. The “substrate” was glass beads, a few of which had cracked in half. There was random hair floating around in the tank. And just in the time span that I was there for, she put her hand in the water 15 times to pet the goldfish which is terrible for their slime coat when you do it that often and as aggressively as she did. Anyways I’m treating them right now, the common will be going to a large outdoor pond soon as the tank I have is only big enough for the 2 fancies.

The water bottle fish tank would be super cute as a craft project with fake fish or even just as a terrarium type thing. One time at school we did a craft similar to that where we filled a water bottle with shells and sand and then blue colored water to make a pretty ocean terrarium thingy and it did look really cool! I’m not sure where it went, I’m sure I have it somewhere, but it was really pretty. A water bottle is NOT suitable for a live fish, I’m not sure how anyone would think that’s okay unless they’re a little kid who doesn’t know any better. But it would make a cute decorative craft project with arti-fish-al animals. You could even make something like it with other animals like one designed like a garden with bug figurines in it. I think that’d be a really fun project!

The cups are actually how they sell beta fish in pet stores here in the US. Those actually look a little bigger even then what they’re usually sold in here. They sell them like that in petsmart, and their containers are literally the same size as the algae cups

That one with teaching aquatic creatures to walk out of water reminded me of this one time, when i was given some plecos. The guy wanted to literally kill them if i didn't want them. And they told me they can live without water for WEEKS. Then proceed to show me a really weird video from tiktok about someone casually putting drops of water on really dry pile of LIVE plecos, and they were "comming back to life". Great.

Horrid tanks but Yuki was so cute hanging out and then saying goodbye at the end of the video! lol

Lately my fish has been very sick, he’s very old and there’s no way to save him, he can’t eat or stay grounded, I think it might be his swim bladder, I really hope he goes peacefully, this video made me feel better thanks soda ❤

yeah all these reminds me of an aquarium i saw at a psychiatric hospital,, there were about 20 small fishes in a 8 gallon tank and almost half of them were dead.. when i returned few months after the dead fishes were gone but they added MORE fishes in amonia infested water and they just kept dying and they did nothing it was really sad

I love the way you sensibilize people so that they can make the life of their pets way better. I wish that everyone was as good as you. Love and support! ❤️

why dont people use robot fish for aquarium-tables? they can't die and can even have unnatural cooler colors, so i dont understand why they wouldn't use them, i mean it gives you way more advantages whereas real fish will just die and then you'll have a table full of dead fish, also dead fish stink so

I like to leave your videos on for my parakeets when I'm busy or not home, they absolutely love it.

bought a brown mystery snail once and he turned out to be an apple snail in a ten gallon i was losing my MIND

Hi soda! I love your pets so much! I feel so bad for these pets!!!! Me and my dog watch ur vids! I’m saving up for ur merch!

The first snapping turtle looks like one of those crabzilla spotted clickbait pictures that are photoshopped really badly.

3:00 you know, this idea could be cute and fun if the bettas were replaced with small marimo moss balls.

I thought it was against Facebook guidelines to sell animals on Facebook? I’ve seen countless tarantula groups get taken down for that before the mods are even able to take posts down.

That TV fish tank is a plasticy tank aimed at children in Aus from like pet barn. Comes with dinosaur decorations! I think real antique TVs that are made into tanks can look pretty cool.

6:32 It's likely meant to be a terrarium for arboreal animals

Soda, thanks to your videos I decided to get myself a little betta buddy in my dorm, and take care of him right. I’ve spent over $100 on him so far and he’s loving life in his heated 5-gal planted tank!

4:51 the tank is also hanging off the side of the table, which is a hazard just waiting to happen!

Amazing idea: use robot fish as centerpieces. Done

Seeing all these make me feel bad for all these fish. I'm glad I got the tank I did for my Betta. He seems so much happier out of the cup he came in from PetSmart

I actually have a singular angel fish in the 25 gallon and yeah angel fish are supposed to get like really big they can reach up to 10-11 inches

The fact i knew a beta was going in as soon as a moss ball was put in. For some reason they’re sold as being great together?? Even though betas need a heater & marimo moss balls prefer shade & cold water bc they’re native to the bottom of lakes under waterfalls to grow & thrive. I fixated on marimos for a long time & it always pissed me off

Poor turtle minding his own business and now in a tiny aquarium

my best friend lives with her aunt and her aunt has a fish tank which is pretty decent but she has a bird who has a pretty small cage but she can roam free but the most concerning pet is her aunts turtled:( the turtle has like decorative marbles for the rocks (like the ones you use to play mancala) and the tank is maybe 10 gallons and there's barely a rock for it to go on and there's no filter there's no heat lamp (there's no light at all it kept on the bottom shelf of a bookshelf) I feel so bad for it and her aunt is not one to take suggestions or help with her pets so this poor turtle is stuck like this and the turtle gets to roam around the ground of the house sometimes its just sad:( and my ex friend has a cat who she keeps in her room he can't leave her room she barely can buy him food she smokes weed around him and vapes around him and blows it into his face sometimes and she does acrylic nails in the room with him with no ventilation and sprays an unholy amount of perfume in her room to coverup the fact this cat has peed on everything and his litter box is always having trash in it, when I was friends with her I would bring him food and treats and changed his litterbox cleaned his puke and pee, and her uncle who lives with her has a bunch of cats also all forced to stay in one room, these cats fight a lot and they have 1 litterbox none of them are neutered and the one female cat is always having kittens, most of the kittens she had died really fast too I had to bury 2 kittens in a week leaving only one kitten surviving that litter:( I did get one of the uncles cats as a birthday gift and her name is now melody (it was Ying yang but she wouldn't respond to it also none of the uncles cats have ever been to the vet) melody was very tiny and skinny and super super skittish when I got her, I've had her for 6 months now and she's a lot better she's grown and gained weight she's almost a year old now too and she's super brave and has a big attitude she loves to judge people and she falls asleep on me every night

Yeah, the last one reminded me of my Dyson fan but turned in a "fish tank". Humans just have this weird obsession with making ANYTHING into a "aquarium".

You should review good aquariums and what make them good

Gee, I wonder if apple snails evacuate a lot. I don't think Soda made that clear enough. 🤔 Also, this stuff is so horrid, Yuki doesn't even want to look at it. He keeps his back turned for most of the video.

Ive rescued quite a lot of goldfish from facebook marketplace ads. Its horrible what kind of tanks you see out there

When it comes to large goldfish in small aquariums i believe that the peapole that by them belive they will not be larger than 5 centimeters. Which i do not blame oppon the coustumer, but on the marketing. I have found small "aquariums" that contains goldfish or even clownfish on the box because that is popular.

When I was in my senior year of highschool I pissed off a bunch of the girls that did our "senior prank". I didn't know what they were doing. I was too uncool to be involved in that kind of thing. But I went to the bathroom and screamed cause there were goldfish in all the toilet bowls. Like three little goldfish in every toilet. I still have a grainy photo somewhere on my computer from when I snapped a pic with my crappy little flip phone to show a teacher in case they didn't believe. I went and told a teacher right away because... there were fucking fish in the toilets. Turned out it wasn't just the girls bathroom that was hit. ALL the girls involved were pissed at me though for "ruining" the senior prank. Like... wtf? That memory immediately jumped to mind with the whole "pranking their boss by making a tank in their desk" thing.

Can't believe I got here this early!! Thanks for making these videos to spread awareness :)

When you mentioned snails shitting everywhere I looked over to my garden snail lmaooo

did you see a snapping turtle and red eared slider in there at some point?

The "axolotls can walk out of water if started young" actually is making me so undescribably angry rn. Google is free. People really think it's soooo cute to abuse animals

Speaking of fish, today me and my family went to the state fair and I saw a game where you could win LIVE fish. I thought that was so mean to do that to them.

I remember many years ago me and my family went to a family party and the gold fishes looked red,blue,white color is it normal? and with a small round tank and we took it and it died it I was very young what to do with a fish with a bad tank

9:54 Soda's fingers nearly gets bitten

At my school we have to slider turtles and they were put in a lizard terrarium.then i though it couldn't get worse because the tank only had gravel and a bit of water,they couldn't swim or dry after being in the water.They had no heater ir anything.after a few months they put them in a 2 gallon aquarium and they could not eave turn around and the had to stay on two legs to breathe air and couldn't move......me and my friend asked one of the teachers to buy them a bigger tank but she said that we don't know anything about turtles and that we are just kids........animal abuse is more common then u think😭

Those were mystery snails related to apple snails but don't get as large also don't eat healthy plants.

Fish have to endure so much a.b.us3 because people are not able to emphasize with them. This is why I sometimes go full misanthrope.

My local wetland reserve (state funded wildlife education center) kept their snapping turtle in a tank that couldn’t have been more than 2ft by 3ft. He couldn’t turn around in that space. It was insane. The tank was literally empty except for the turtle. Like, the only things in there were water, the turtle, a filter, and some fish to eat. He lived in there for 10 years or longer last time I checked. I imagine he’s not there anymore, and I have a feeling the place likely got shut down due to budget cuts. Pretty much every wildlife education center in our area (WI, USA) is bad. Every single one has their taxidermy built up with decades of dust and cobwebs. It’s HELL over here for these living educational mascots and I wish they’d never had existed. Hauling them around to show children and then shoving them in awful enclosures to slowly die over the span of 15 years. The one my school visited most often had a macaw that could mimic whose cage was out in the open and he would be harassed by children on the daily. I’m so glad he’s passed away now, after years of constant torment. He didn’t deserve that.

I really don't understand why people get an animal just to keep them in horrific condition

Here earky love your videos!

i honestly thought that litres was spelled leaters before right now 😂

Hi soda! Ive been getting into pet care recently, I want to get a new starter pet, dont know which tho. I read alot about axolotls, but i really want a cat, and im scared if i get birds like budgies that the cat will harm them. Which animal do you think is a good starter pet for me?.. I see you have birds, goldfishes and more and they almost never get hurt.

When I went to ack’s exotic pets I saw like 9 axolotl in a dirty 15 gallon tank I was so mad

Are pacman frogs legal or illegal in your country

Angel fish need 50 gallon tanks but u where close

I LOVE YOURE VIDEOS I WANT YOU TO REVEIW MY FISH TANK AND I HAVE EXSPERIANCE WITH FISH SO WHAT DO I SEND THE IMAGE TO

2:13 hope that these fish don't have claustrophobia

4:56

Gosh there's a park by my house and went to walk there for a bit and saw a wedding set up, that had no one supervising it. It was super hot that day and we saw little bowls of goldfish, sadly most were already dead. The wedding hadn't even happened yet.

At least these aren't the worst tanks.

Do you feed your frogs crickets?

I feel bad. I was one of those idiots that used fish in my wedding reception... In my defense, they were from my mom's fish tank which had an over population of guppies. I actually spent a lot of time using water from their tank and adjusting them to the table bowls. All shitty excuses, I am aware. Would never do it again!

I love fish

Do you watch Chris from Fish For Thought?

I love keeping fish but i am not buying the fish which i can't give 20litre space. Specially minimum 25litre for keeping guppy and 10 ft. Tank for koi and goldfish as you don't want you fish to die.

i have a special hatred for anyone who abuses angel fish. -_- it's unlikely but i hope someone knocks some sense ito that awful owner.

There’s this channel (might be hard to find) where they put axolotls on plates with water (plastic plates) and put food in them. Wtf.

And can i put turtle in a pond where the food from guava tree fall in the pond every season? My pond size is 2.5metre length and 1.2metre breadth, Soil part of 5 by 7 m. Btw were is your discort?

Soda please help me I have my school bird and it’s cage and I die is wrong how do I get it changed to school appropriate stuff :(

Nice video

They got expensive discus and put it in that. Why?

It makes me so sad that people are being mean to animals

do u

Horrible tanks

my sister has like 5 big healthy fish tanks in her room (she really cares about her fish im being over serious) anyway yea she likes fish sometimes the ones in the 40 gallon jump (they're completely healthy though she hasnt gotten any diseases in her fish tanks since she got them) she used to have a yellow one of those uh um uhm gaehtdgbfaegrtg devil/demon bettas?? idk anyway it arrived in the MAIL. it was like 60 dollars AND THE DAY WE GOT IT. IT FRICKEN DIED CUZ OF THE [bleep]Y MAILMAN DUDE IT WAS IN A COLD CAR DRIVING AROUND ON BUMPS REALLY FAST AND IT GOT SO SHOCKED ONCE IT WAS IN WE DIDNT EVEN TAKE IT OUT OF THE BAG YET WE LET IT GET USED TO THE WATER IT DIED. [bleep] YOU MAILMAN AND HE LIKE DROPPED THE PACKAGE AND IGNORED THE FRICKEN LIVE FISH SIGN >:( im so [bleep]ing mad

¡Oh, Dios mío, eres tan bonita! ! Y quiero decir, HERMOSO!!!

Hii!

oh my gosh im so early hi soda

Seeing this tutrtle being kept cruelly, and thisis posted publicly, and no one does anything about it? COOL! So mass murderers or child abductors should post on redit, how they keep their victims, since YOLO its a redit post and NO ONE gives a damn about the animals. SO don't give a DAMN about humans either!! Do this then ill accept that people ignore ANIMAL ABUSE right in front of them!

I feel so bad for the turtles cause just seeing them in such cramped tanks. I felt bad for my turtles being in a kiddie pool so we made them a pond.

Third

Fish suck they are boring and uselesss. Jk i love fish

you ask how grown adults can do these things, well in my opinion age is not an indicator of intelligence !

You should collab with fish4thought, he and you both go on the sh¡ttyaquarium subreddit and you both reviewed some of the same tanks