i once had a classmate who complained that her pet fish kept dying. she said that she kept them in a tank with enough space and clean water and yet they went belly up in a few days. so i asked her "what kind of fish food do you feed them?" and she looked surprised and confused. she answered, "...fish food? fish need food?" turns out she wasn't feeding them AT ALL because for one reason or another, she assumed they only needed water to survive

When I was getting into fish as an adult, my mom had kept a betta in a half gallon bowl hanging on the wall for years. She did take care of it, but I mean, no heater or filter, but she did frequent 100% water changes. What I ended up doing was upgraded her tank to a 2.5 gallons (filtered and heated of course). A couple years ago i upgraded her to a 5 for Christmas, and then last year I dirted it and planted it for her. She loves fish and she loves her little tank. I do take care of water changes for her from time to time because shes still new to a gravel vac still. Sometimes when you see someone who really does care, helping to educate them and set them up in the right direction can make a huge difference for an animal.

It’s crazy how people think (and sometimes can) get away with treating their animals and pets so horribly. Just because it’s not a dog or a cat it does not mean you can treat it like crap!

I hope you and your mum both get better soon, and happy birthday for Monday! Can't believe the conditions some people keep fish in. Willful ignorance.

4:20 this is mostly nicks fault. Stephen Hillenburg (The Creator) was a marine biologist I think and loved fish. He mostly wanted to educate kids about fish and water pollution but nickelodeon gave the show a bad rep.

My landlord has the saddest fish tank in our laundry room, and I've been trying to scrounge up the materials to upgrade them. There's four, like, 15cm goldfish in a 10 gallon. Unfortunately, I am not a landlord, I am a tenant and therefore, poor, so it's taking a while. I finally got some free filters off of Kijiji, and I had found a nice 40 gallon (anything bigger is totally out of my price range and it's really not my job), but then I had a covid scare and missed it. :(

3:46 that's 100% a water container that home coffee machines have. I have on of those and it looks IDENTICAL, as much as it hurts to believe. Also most bowls that people normally have to fishes could only have the purpose of like a small decoration INSIDE an actual tank, which is just sad.

Hey now, there is one(and only one) type of self cleaning, zero maintenance fish tank! The kind that are sealed and unused

I own 3 fancy goldfish and I love them to death. It upsets me to see all these fish in these conditions. Makes me want to save all of them 🥺

Soda’s back to brighten our days. I agree with everything you say. People think fish deserve different care(less care)than from a dog, which is not true at all. Fish are very hard to take care of, and people think they’re starter pets, which is obviously not true. Keep up the work, Soda!!

In one of our high-school science classes there was a long long low height tank with a few I believe saltwater fish, but it was decorated sort of like what a mix if a tidewater zone and realistic if not real items. It could of been fresh, but that was so long ago but I do know it looked realistic to natural settings and those fish were super nice looking and happy. Edit* Also forgot my zoology class which was at my senior year in what once what was one of my English classrooms. She had a pixie frog, a red ear slider, two leopard geckos and two iguanas, one being a recent rescue and *massive* he was on treatments for mouth rot from his old home.

Saw two young kids in countrymax today, there was a display pond with goldfish and they were putting their hands in and trying to grab the fish while their dad was in the bathroom. Great idea to leave your kids unattended, nice parenting.

Cockatiel reddit is usually a good place where people share their happy and healthy birds, but very often newbies share pics in awful conditions and get a lot of good advice Sometimes they get dragged for it if they insist on remaining ignorant 😅

Just a beginners opinion, it should be harder to get fish for the general public. You should have to have proof of tank size or something along those lines just so people can’t get any fish just on a whim.

hope you feel better soon, soda! ❤️

I am extremely disappointed in the Spongebob tank because the creator of the series (Stephen Hillenburg) was a Marine Biologist before he went into animation!

Hope you have a fast recovery! I know you said you won’t be doing for a while (which is completely understandable and normal), but when you do come back, I suggest making a video on “low environmental impact” tanks. What they do, how zero waist tanks aren’t as good as they sound, and how both takes compare against each other.

Yeah, Stephen Hillenburg is rolling in his grave rn, because of that tank. The man was a marine biologist, for God's sake!!

feel better soon soda!

Oh no!!! Sorry to hear you are sick! Sending you healing energy from Thailand. I love you videos too BTW. Have a fun birthday. I wish I was 21 again!

Oh yeah I had covid (maybe a month ago?) and it totally sucked, I’m sorry to hear you got it so close to your birthday :( I was in the same boat with being fully vaxxed as well, I think the worst part was the sore skin and sore joints, congestion/ears being popped out all the time, and the coughing. Thankfully nothing life threatening and none of the symptoms of loss of smell or taste for more than 20 days, I hope yours is also not super dangerous and you feel better soon. Great and entertaining video like ya do with all of them. I always enjoy your personality and the way you go about speaking on situations that a lot of people are unable to calmly and rationally go about (also the birds and fish. They’re all so cute). Take your time with getting better however long that takes, I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say we’d much rather have you happy and enjoying creating content than sick and/or unhappy

I remember when I visited my friends house a few years ago, she had one of those wall bowl aquarium things with I think a beta fish in it. It was literally just a plain tank, no filter, they didn’t even try to give the fish a good life. She told me she keeps having to replace her fish because they keep dying really quickly, I wonder why!

Soda you’re the best

Speaking of, Choice Hotels has an advertisement on TV here in the US of a kid 'travelling' with his goldfish in a bowl of very cloudy water and taking it everywhere. Ugh.

I love the level of sass and like, "Get out of here with your bullshit" in this video.

Oh look,lets put in a VERY VERy small “tank” without filter and lets put a little patrick and uhm bob’s house and for last , pink neon stones to make it look SUPER NATURAL

about schools and bad tanks: in grade one, i remember we had a beta in the classroom that lived in the tiniest bowl. fully bare, got really dirty often and wasn’t cleaned enough. one day they told us the fish was sleeping because it was on its back

"he really do be vibin doe" and it's the most stressed fish you'll ever see

i was on tiktok looking at fish videos and you posted this. lol

Just got a betta fish today I got the tank the filter and some plants around the tank!

Love when people say something like _"well yeah my fish died but it lived in these conditions for three whole years so it cant be that I'm a bad owner"_ like no idiot, you're giving yourself a lot of credit for your fish "living" when in reality that fish spent those 3 years dying.

This isn't anything bad but I'd just like to talk about something that makes me very happy. A pet shop in my country has a rule of where if you don't get the supplies from that shop and you're buying an animal from them they ask to check your enclosure for your animal to make sure they're going to a safe home. It makes me very happy that the manager there is careful with who they're selling to

Its been difficult to get the proper things needed for my tank because my parents believe that "its just a fish, its fine." Luckily I think everything is sorted out now. Remember that fish have feelings too!

I recently got into a fight with a little girl because she said I knew nothing abt animals while she had dangerous things in with three goldfish,and a glow fish,and the worst part was it was a 10 gallon tank

"Oh god, you know it's gonna be terrible when it's on Tiktok." preceeding the overdramatic stressing out of a fish. I think that really fits lol

Pet stores near me sell fish bowls with notes that say “these are not suitable for fish”but still don’t sell the bowls. And when you try to buy them for fish they won’t sell it to you

I used to see the tri level betta tank and my local fish store. Luckily it seems that they now keep them in 5 gals

10:52 oh no, it brings back memories, very painfull memories.

SodaPets: You dont want your fish to survive, you want them to *thrive* ! I love this quote-

I will admit that I currently have 1 Danio in a 5 gallon tank. My mum bought me the tank 2 and a half years ago for Christmas because she knew the sound of water and watching fish swim helped my depression. After we had set up and correctly cycled the tank, the guy at the pet shop told us (incorrectly, of course) that it was fine to put 7 fish in this tank. I quickly learned that almost everything that guy said was total lies, including that having 3 danios and 4 platies in a 5 gallon tank was a good idea, getting a ghost shrimp would help my water quality, and that the shrimp was harmless (it wasn't, it turned out to be a carnivorous shrimp and killed all but 1 of my platies before I could separate them). So now, more than 2 years later, only one of my fish is still alive. I keep it's tank well heated, filtered and clean to make it comfortable for him. I will not be buying any more fish until I can get a bigger, better tank (probably after my danio died sadly) when I move out of my parents house. And I will never be going back to that pet shop

Hope you get well soon Soda

I got REALLY lucky with fish care. My dad grew up with fish and was an angelfish breeder for a long time. He also had a friend that bred Discus as well. Growing up with a father who had fish and knew how to care for them made SURE I didn't make mistakes with getting fish as BAD as any of these videos. Of course I made the mistake with cycling my tank and my cycle crashed a few times but I never did the whole putting the animal in too small a tank and with zero filtration. Even as a kid my dad had nice tanks set up with everything for any fish we got. I was lucky to have someone who had the knowledge around me from young on.

Where I live gets brutally cold in winter, I stopped having fish and gave away my tank after my furnace broke and my fish froze .....I have a dog now (if heat goes out he can climb in my bed to stay warm and he steals my blanket)

the fair goldfish looks like it's saying "help, help, help, help"

I saw a Pet Valu ad today. It was of this “Betta Puzzle Tank” thing. Basically u get a bunch of em and u can connect them like a puzzle. It’s was half a gallon. A pet store recommended this.. which honestly doesn’t even surprise me anymore.

My cousin has this decorative ‘tank’ that is literally the size of both of my fists for a beta, no filter and one fake leaf

Alive & thriving *are not the same thing*!!! I wish people would just *do* - *their* - *research*! Appreciate you Soda for continuing to put it out there that this care is not acceptable. Especially when this kind of care is common & especially where I am in the US.

hope u feel well soon soda!!!!!

5:36 THIS IS ACTUALLY MY MOM'S "AQUARIUM", I FEEL BAD FOR THAT BETA SHE HAS😭✋

I just find it funny that I keep my feeder crickets in bigger and better space that lot of people keep their pets 🤣

I have one of those wall aquariums, but I’ve never put a fish in it. Rn mine has my moss ball. It was in a tank with a crawfish, but the crawfish was shredding the moss ball so I rescued Mr. Moss and put him in one of those wall bubbles lol

When soda rates your pet enclosure: some guy: *posts a picture of his small aquarium* Soda: hmm judgement is in order

Hope you feel better soon! Get rest, we'll be here when you feel better. And Happy Birthday!

Poor fish!

For the first tank the black fish are called Cidllings (I hope I spelled that right) apparently they require a 10 gallon tank. (I only know this because my school has them)

10:03 that fish in there is absolutely beautiful

The other day a 12-year-old girl told me that her parents had bought her and her brother betta fish and put them in one of those terrible fish tanks with the divider. No surprise, her fish died of stress because of the other betta fish. I hate that companies are selling these terrible products, and getting away with advertising as "safe for fish" when they're not.

Oh cool we are birthday twins! I love your videos by the way! Keep doing what you are doing!

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god... that spongebob tank reminds me of a group of people in college, who all had tanks that size, with a divider, so they could cram two bettas (one on either side) and they could barely move and the water was like.. stinking and green after a day. those poor fish :(

If your friend or family has bad fish care and they refuse to make any changes to the setup, think about this: Would you stop associating with someone if they kept their pet dog in a tiny cage its entire life, no toys, bad food, dirty water, never cleaning the waste, while dismissing any and all critique about their animal neglect and abuse? Dogs and fish are different pets, but fish are still alive and have awareness. It's okay to reevaluate a person based on their pet care- it says a lot about true character.

We have those fairs where you can catch fish as well, only they're fake fish and once you catch enough of them, you just get a prize. I've never seen live fish used at a place like that before, and I'm hoping it's just illegal where I live

I hope you get well soon!

the dentists office here had a fish tank. it was there for 20 years and it looked stunning. and then covid happened and the receptionist who took care of the tank couldn't come to work for like a year. now the tank looks gross, the fish died because nobody cared enough to feed them. its just a couple of plants that look like a rotten salad.

My friend has a goldfish from a carnaval, she puts it in an extremely small tank, with no buddy. The fish is blind on one eye and has jumped out of its tank multiple times. Ive tried to tell her multiple times to give it more space but he insists her fish is happy and that their friend already have a friend, meaning themself

I was the one who posted the cat in the vase! It’s just awful. Hope you feel better soon. I had Covid about a month ago and felt awful but my mum had barely any symptoms. Think it’s really depends on the person 😊

Ahhh! I didn’t know you were 20? Happy birthday Soda and get well soon! We all love your vids! And also try to have fun while on your “break” even if you’re sick 😅 ❤️

Get well soon soda ❤️❤️

Those poor, Fish 🐡🐠

I always try to inform people and they never ever listen lol

Happy belated birthday! My SO has the same bday as you lol. Saw you're doing better on another video so I'm glad you and your mom are feeling better.

The second tank, my little brother has a 30 gallon fish tank with that same gravel, it’s a SpongeBob theme tank that had nothing in it until I took over decorating it by adding a bunch of fake plants, I figure it’s better than 2 houses to hide in

Thanks for the video, hope you feel better soon!

I'm sick too. Can't breathe, and barely talk because of a sore throat. I wish you well, and if you need a break, feel free to take your time. You are an amazing person who is helping animals and deserve some self care.

I also hate that when my twin and I each got a beta fish,we kept them in the containers,and picked them up a bunch,and didn’t feed them,poor things died the next day(I wish we were more educated)

Happy birthday, Soda!! Hope you spend your time looking at cute animals, today. :)

Correct, surviving is not thriving. An example is solitary confinement. You’ll survive, but you’ll hate every second of it.

Hope you recover soon from covid, my family had Covid some months ago❤️

Happy early birthday!! And I hope you feel better soon (and your mom) :D!!!

Happy birthday for the coming day! Hopefully you and your family recover quickly. Sad to see how many people keep their goldfish in these types of conditions, there’s a lot of misconceptions on what goldfish care should look like

My family actually has a carnival goldfish lmao. There was a carnival near our house this past winter, and my brother and some of his friends went about every day. One of the friends wanted to play some games, and the game he picked had fish as a prize. My brother tried to tell him to pick a game with different prizes, but the friend didn't want to play any other game. He ended up playing the game and winning a fish, but when his mom came to get him, he told him he couldn't have it, so my brother ended up taking him home. He's still alive, his name is Carl, and he's got a nice 15 gallon tank full of live plants! He'll probably need a bigger tank in a couple years as he grows but my family loves him!

i missed last two birthdays and just had party finally so my heart goes out to you - get well!

jeez the only thing that could be added to that bowl to make that fish's life better is clove oil

I hope you’ll get better! and happy early birthday! :)

Love the vid can you plssssn make a fish tank guide or a guide how to take care of fish

Damn, people have no clue how to take care of fishes

11:12 When I was 11 or 12 I won a common goldfish at a carnival. He was a little thing that, at the very least, they gave us a small tank instead of a little cup like they usually are won in. I think it's actually a bit scarier looking back that they not only were using the poor fish as prizes for children but were also encouraging the goldfish to live in such a tiny tank. It was definitely better than a pee cup of course, but at least if they come in those there's a chance that the parent's child will buy a good tank as opposed to being lazy and accepting the tiny one. Luckily my mother actually liked fish well enough and because of my carnival fish, she ended up starting several large aquariums. My goldfish grew to be the palm of my hand- the size of my *adult* hand today, not back when I was a child. My friend had also won a goldfish and he didn't grow to be nearly as large, but I think it might've been because he was only living, not thriving, in a fishball with nothing other than gravel and I think a plant. I didn't know any better than to say anything as a kid, I thought back then that my mom had given my goldfish a bigger tank with a bunch of natural plants and filters and the like because she decide to get more and that's it. I named my goldfish Crimson and he lived a good 6 years or so, healthy and happy despite the rough start.

This just reminds me of the tank at my highschool. I would always go sit next to it in the library, and every time, I’d look in this little alcove under a rock. Under it was a dead fish, who I watched over time turn from slightly fishlike to completely white skeleton. I told someone about it, but it stayed.

woah cheers for your birthday coming up! mine is incidently on the 3rd haha hope you and your mother get well soon :D

Me and my family used to have a very small turtle tank for two turtles (now in a big above ground pond), but there were times where the filter would explode and my entire room was flooded 😬

Happy slightly late birthday! 🎂 And hope you and your mom both get better soon!

Hi Soda so I have a Question for you what fish would be the best for a 10 gallon? Would a beta work and if so could I put tiny fish in there with it? Hope you fill better :3❤️❤️

It's amazing the misconception ppl have regarding fish.. goldfish and bettas in particular.. when you were talking about people just don't care.. that's exactly how a lot of pet store workers feel when it comes to customers.. unfortunately you can try to educate them until you are blue in the face but at the end of the day they are gonna do what they want to do.. and a lot of times that means going to other stores until they get their way

Hope u feel better! also happy birthday

Happy birthday Soda!! 💐🎁🤗

I hope you get better soon!

My little sister wants a gold fish but she wants to put it in a “tank” that will fit on her desk, I keep telling her no and my mom keeps considering it and keeps trying to justify stuffing a fish into a bowl where it will never love happy. If you are going to get a fish do research first!

Hi! What fish would you recommend to buy?

Get well soon Soda!! ❤️

I saw an example of bad fish owning: I saw a KZfaqr just now called Barbs Buzzing (The Fish Guy). I was watching a Dwarf Pufferfish video, & he put them in a tank with a blind albino Goldfish (not a good idea!). Went to see his KZfaq channel, & found out he does things like "Fish Battles", put a Clown Triggerfish in with ferocious predators, filled a bathtub with fish, & lost all his Betta Fish & their eggs, lost his Flowerhorn & has large fish in tiny tanks. I only just wanted to see cute pufferfish videos... 😭