Someone on fb marketplace selling 1 gallon betta jars. They obviously know stuff about fish but I was wondering everyone’s opinions on the ethics of downgrading so drastically. I’ve heard of lowering tank water while healing finrot or to assist with older bettas but 1 gallon seems a little crazy to me. Outside of the tank sizes themselves I feel like selling “low tech” no filter tanks to possibly inexperienced fish keepers is a bad idea to begin with. I’ve heard of people doing no filter tanks before but they’ve always been very seasoned in the hobby. Either way selling live animals on marketplace is a no go
Posted by Dannydevitoskneesock
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I mean maybe it’s fine as a hospital tank but… it still …is so tiny. For hospitals I try for 3 gallon. And they’re selling them as full set up tanks. I’m sorry but you just KNOW most people who buy these from this person and hear “never need water changes because plants” .. they’re just gonna keep that poor fish in there indefinitely. I’m sure of that.
If they knew stuff about fish they wouldn’t be pickling their bettas
No.
“fully cycled” and it’s a $40 pickle jar 💀
This is more ethical than your local petco keeping betas in cups, but that is not saying much.
No, they are using word salad to dress up and hide their own personal animal abuse collection.
Sadly there are people who are going to follow this blindly, and so the abuse spreads.
No fish “can’t handle a large tank.” How do they think fish survive outside? Tank size isn’t just about swimming ability, it’s about mental enrichment and water quality. Even a betta who can’t swim much due to long fins would benefit from a larger tank because waste would be more diluted.
Also, $40 for a pickle jar with a $5 fish in it is a crime. Profiting off of betta in jars isn’t rescuing or rehabbing them.
sound like BS they made up to sell those jar without being shit on. If I need to rehab a betta I’ll put them in a 5 gallon bucket at least
I mean I love my pickle jar aquarium but I only keep daphnia and scuds in it. Def not a good home for a beta
Temporarily yes. But if you’re selling them on marketplace with that wording, people will keep them in there, and that’s not okay.
low tech? that sht is low effort my bro
These fish are adapted to survive in very confined environments, which happens depending on the dry season.Is it ethical? I would say yes, since this person claims that their containers are stress-free (clean and stable water), although this shouldn’t be the final home.
not even for a shrimp lol no hn
From an in invert aquarist – this sort of thing is fucking awesome for a small colony of shrimp or snails or even for aquatic isopods, or make great setups for meiofauna enjoyers like myself.. they would be amazing if they weren’t being sold specifically for and WITH betta fish. No vertebrate should be in anything under 5 gallons permenantly from my knowledge. I also have a betta, and my emergency just in case hospital tank is 2.5g. I would not imagine going anything smaller than that for a temp enclosure.
Wander on over to [r/betta](r/betta)[fish](r/betta) with this, if you dare.
Charging 40$ for these is far from ethical.
Not suitable for fish either.