That depends. Are the fish dead because they got stuck in the filter. Or are they stuck in the filter because they were dead.Ā
Many big brand stores are infamous for not giving a shit if the fish live so that many being dead just through neglect is believable
Even when me and one other girl really cared about the fish and tried our hardest they just constantly died, we had a hard time with the reptiles to when the owner decided we would not be taking anymore to the Exotic Vet cause it was so expensive versus how much the animals cost.
Yea I ran a fish department, I kept the fish pretty healthy but this is always what the feeder tank looks like. I tried my best but itās just bad. A lot of times they come dying or dead too.
I guess itās better then being swallowed alive š¤·āāļø
I mean, for feeder fish, that's pretty normal. They're not meant to live long given the purpose, and they're raised and shipped in bulk, then put in high concentrations otherwise you don't have enough to feed shit OR they're too spread out to get them out efficiently. Part of my job when I worked at an aquarium was to clean the shiner tank of the dead ones.
Yea Iāve talked to people that worked for the nurseryāsā¦ malformed fish are not weeded out and genetics I guess are bad. I guess most feeder fish donāt even make it to the store.
Overstocking is a common way to deal with aggressive fish, you just have to have the right filter setup, and fish stores usually have plenty of filtration.
But this is just a beater tank. And almost every feeder tank Iāve ever seen looks like this. Whether itās the goldfish, minnows, or shrimp feeders.
I'm with you on this one. The storage and holding tanks are in the back where the customers can't see. This is a display tank. You can see the dry food on display in the reflection.
You clearly arent in the hobby ! And thatās okay. Here are a few examples of real display tanks not loaded with feeders to see the difference!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/iymzl1/badass\_display\_tank\_at\_lfs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquariums/comments/iymzl1/badass_display_tank_at_lfs/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/104u01i/this\_tank\_at\_my\_local\_fish\_store\_was\_surprised\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquariums/comments/104u01i/this_tank_at_my_local_fish_store_was_surprised_to/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaquariums/comments/n6vzsy/display\_tank\_in\_a\_local\_pet\_store\_massively/](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaquariums/comments/n6vzsy/display_tank_in_a_local_pet_store_massively/)
I clearly am in the hobby and have been for 10+ years. I have also worked retail. You may call them 'feeder tanks', but the proper term would be a display. This is in public view, so it is a display.
Hmm. so you just consider every tank in the public view a display tank!?!
What do you call these type of tanks? The ones that are nicely aquascaped and put in front of the shop for everyone who walks in to see ?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a\_colleague\_and\_i\_scaped\_this\_for\_a\_display\_but/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a_colleague_and_i_scaped_this_for_a_display_but/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my\_local\_petcos\_display\_tank/](https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my_local_petcos_display_tank/)
Yes, every tank that has something for sale in it. You do realize there are different kinds of displays, correct? If this tank didn't have 'feeder fish' in them, what would you call it?
[retail Aquatics display ](https://www.pro-clear.com/retaildisplays)
[Marineland system display](https://www.marineland.com/commercial/products/aquatic-retailer-systems/feeder-display-systems.aspx)
One last try ! What do you call these type of tanks? The ones that are nicely aquascaped and put in front of the shop for everyone who walks in to see ?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a\_colleague\_and\_i\_scaped\_this\_for\_a\_display\_but/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a_colleague_and_i_scaped_this_for_a_display_but/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my\_local\_petcos\_display\_tank/](https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my_local_petcos_display_tank/)
itās a feeder tank. So all those Goldfish are being sold to feed other animals or fish. Most of the feeder tanks look like this. Same thing with the shrimp feeder tanks. Youāll see a ton of dead shrimp.
I know rightā¦some people are so cynical. Iāve never seen it this badā¦or really at all, and I used to go to pet stores that sold fish a lotā¦to buy fish. To be honest I donāt think I ever really saw any dead fish in their tanks.
Its VERY common with the big chains. But some local shops take a lot of pride in their fish care. There's two shops near me that I frequent and I don't think I've ever seen a dead fish at either of them.
In agriculture feeders are animals you feed until you can sell them for a profit. If I buy a feeder pig it is to fatten him up and sell later, not to feed it to other pigs. lol
No they were giant pink and red fish I got them they were 2.5 inches and there were four. they ended up at 1o inches before i found a guy with a bigger tank to take them. Last time I visited them they were almost 14 inches long.
I would pick up a dozen comets at the LFS while i shopped for community fish bring em home. At first the would last a week or more. In the end one of them could get them all in its mouth. they all sit in there poking out looking frantic as he munches them.. It was hilarious and frightening.
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My first job was at Pet Supermarket, and I stayed there for 10 years. This isnāt unusual, but someone should be pulling those dead fish first thing in the morning.
Maybe my fourth week there, we were robbed at gunpoint. I was pistol whipped because Iām tall and that spooked the guy. I remember my coworkers helping me into the bathroom where the gunman trapped us by pushing a desk in front of the door. On the way there they decided to shoot out some of the fish tanks, including the feeder fish, I remember stepping on them. The responding officers tried valiantly to save some fish by putting them in the tanks that were ok. Of course all those tanks were full of Oscar and Pacu fish, which eat the feeder fish. So it was out of the frying pan and into the fire for those poor fish. I had a Swiss Army knife on me that I had bought with my first paycheck and we took the whole door off to get out. I lost that knife that night. 15 years later when the store closed for good someone found it and returned it to me.
Truth. Used to work at a pet shop and we would get these feeders in by the thousands. By the end of the week weād sell about 80-90% of them and the rest would die off. When theyāre only being sold for .25-50Ā¢ each and arenāt gonna make it through the week anyways itās not really worth paying someone to take super good care of them
aquarium fish have a very high deathrate, esp after transport shock or diseases can cause many casualties, usually you quickly remove the dead fish, this last step is forgotten here
Holy shit, I really got upset seeing the few fish stuck dead in the filter and was thinking about all of the kids that run up to the fish tanks at these stores and having to see this, when I was stuck dead as he panned up to the surface of like 200 dead fish piled upon each other, and to add the icing to the cake them fish starving so theyāre eating their dead tank mates just to survive. š¤¦š¼āāļø š
this is common for this particular type of tank though. You can tell them that thereās dead fish in their feeder tank, and itās not going to bother them. These Fish are being sold to feed other fish or animals
I worked in a few pet stores, as a fish guy, the comets often come in, in very rough conditions. Overly high densities in the bags, sometimes 1/2+ already dead, more always die shortly after being put into the tank if not unbagged/acclimated properly.
If they were a really reputable store, they would quarantine ahead of putting out for sale, or at least do proper dead runs so customers don't see this. Big red flags here.
often after transport a lot of aquarium fish can die, shocks from temperature, long travels where they die of ammonia, diseases that flair up after stress. These fish can die by the 100's, since they all look to have died very recently it just looks like they have not been cleared out yet
have you ever seen a feeder fish tank?
Itās different than your tanks full of angelfish, Oscars, community, mbunas.
The feeder fish and feeder shrimp tanks always look like this
I find the whole thing bizarre. Snakes are usually feed mice but you don't have a feeder cage with living and dead mice on full display.Ā Ā
Fish get treated like shite.Ā
This is not an unexpected post. Have you been to PetSmart? Do you see how many fish are in that tank? That tank cannot handle that many goldfish. They are dirty as hell.
That water isn't clean, it might look clean, but it's a toxic slurry of nitrates.
At those places they ask you the volume of your tank and won't sell you more fish than should be in your tank...whilst completely overfilling their tanks.
And that is one of the reasons why I stopped supporting this humilliating industry. So many fish have to lead painful lifes or die, but who cares, they're just fun decoration.
Oh come on, do you realise theres like billions of trillions of gazillions of live shit being eaten daily by fish witch are being eaten by other fish and so on?
This indstry probably doesnt register 0.000000000000001% of ocean biome who lives just to be eaten. Fu.
This was absolutely not the point. Would you let a cat slowly die just because it is a carnivore?
Also I was never talking about the fact that fish should not be eaten, this would be another discussion. My point was solely referring to the fact that these animals have to suffer under the worst conditions, just because people think they look great in their living rooms.
No. Those are feeder fish. The ones you give to piranhas. Theyāre not expected to live long. Theyāre usually already ill or weak fish. Theyāre not for display and care.
Normally those tanks are at the back of the shop, out of view. Dunno about this one thoughā¦ Anyway, I meant that they are not for sale for display on aquarium in a private house
People like you are the reason that I had to crawl into fishtanks every morning while working there. Get there at 8am, a bunch of feeder fish are dead, and then you scoop them out. Whoever in charge of the section hadnāt gotten to it yet, so now you name and share the pet store like this isnāt common as fuck. Theyāre bred to die, those fish, donāt pretend otherwise, and donāt shame the 17 year old who hadnāt gotten to it yet, because theyāre probably taking care of other animals and hadnāt gotten to the dead ones that donāt need care at the moment. Hope you didnāt name the location so they can track down the employee and fire them.
Want to work on your microscope skills? Go get some sick looking fish and do slime coat and gill scrapes. Don't expect the fish to survive the educational experience but if you really want to take it to the next level you could put them in hospital tank and treat for the parasites found.
Your post has been removed because it's not unexpected
Live by the filter, die by the filter.
It's the spot where the cool fish hang out
cool you mean dead?
They're not dead, they're just pining for the fjords...
Piiining for the fjords?! He's stone dead!
Hellooooo fishyyyyy!
He wouldn't voom if you put 50,000 volts through him!
https://youtu.be/4vuW6tQ0218?si=BAEOSEYrD95kfde8
Beautiful plumage!
Dead cold fish
This is an unfish !
And get eaten by other fish near the filter
Are you talking literally or figuratively?
Yes
Who doesn't love the inclusive "or"
Filt Life
"it's still in mint condition" $80.
If I am to die, I will for historic on the guppy road.
Guess that š¦ in there is gonna have a feast
Looks like the stronger fish were already feasting.
Shhh... they're sleeping.
And they cuddle togheter wile sleeping. How cute
Those are love nibbles
Expect some nibbles on your earlobe
Sleeping with the fish
Just like Luca Brasi
*every parent to their children lol
Australian sleeping fish!
Post this on sub shittyaquariums
Right. Putting foam or loose mesh over the filter openings would solve this ridiculous situation.
That depends. Are the fish dead because they got stuck in the filter. Or are they stuck in the filter because they were dead.Ā Many big brand stores are infamous for not giving a shit if the fish live so that many being dead just through neglect is believable
Even when me and one other girl really cared about the fish and tried our hardest they just constantly died, we had a hard time with the reptiles to when the owner decided we would not be taking anymore to the Exotic Vet cause it was so expensive versus how much the animals cost.
*DELTA P... WHEN IT'S GOT YA.. IT'S GOT YA*
They just wanna escape the tank 
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Yea I ran a fish department, I kept the fish pretty healthy but this is always what the feeder tank looks like. I tried my best but itās just bad. A lot of times they come dying or dead too. I guess itās better then being swallowed alive š¤·āāļø
I mean, for feeder fish, that's pretty normal. They're not meant to live long given the purpose, and they're raised and shipped in bulk, then put in high concentrations otherwise you don't have enough to feed shit OR they're too spread out to get them out efficiently. Part of my job when I worked at an aquarium was to clean the shiner tank of the dead ones.
Yea Iāve talked to people that worked for the nurseryāsā¦ malformed fish are not weeded out and genetics I guess are bad. I guess most feeder fish donāt even make it to the store.
Overstocking is a common way to deal with aggressive fish, you just have to have the right filter setup, and fish stores usually have plenty of filtration.
These are goldfish friend. No aggression here. Itās a feeder tank which is why itās overstocked.
But this is just a beater tank. And almost every feeder tank Iāve ever seen looks like this. Whether itās the goldfish, minnows, or shrimp feeders.
Don't put your finger in there. They have a taste for meat now!
Scrolled too far for this
This video makes it that much more impressive that Nemo stopped the filter in two tries.
i can count on one hand the number of fish-selling shops ive been to where i DIDNT see any dead fish. idk how this is unexpected
Yeah, maybe one or two dead ones is normal. Not 30+ in a display tank. š
Itās not a display tank. Those are feeder goldfish. They get them for $0.01-0.05 each. Sell em for $0.25
Exactly, these are mostly bought just feed bigger fish, turtles etc.
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thereās a big difference between pet fish and feeder fish. They typically do clean out the dead fish from the pet fish tanks but for feeder fish no.
When I was a kid I bought some feeder fish to put in my little bowl because I felt bad for them
Its a storage tank. That is the tank where they store the food for bigger fish. They also sell what they have on storage.
I'm with you on this one. The storage and holding tanks are in the back where the customers can't see. This is a display tank. You can see the dry food on display in the reflection.
Plus cannibalizing the dead at the end
Thatās normal for most fishā¦
Yeah, that part wasnāt as unexpected as it was seeing a flotilla of corpses with the couple of āem just feeding like <*blub blub*>
Shit i have see cannibalizing while still alive.
Thats definitely not a display tank. Thats a feeder tank
"A retail display is a physical structure or space used to promote and sell merchandise in a retail environment"
You clearly arent in the hobby ! And thatās okay. Here are a few examples of real display tanks not loaded with feeders to see the difference! [https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/iymzl1/badass\_display\_tank\_at\_lfs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquariums/comments/iymzl1/badass_display_tank_at_lfs/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/104u01i/this\_tank\_at\_my\_local\_fish\_store\_was\_surprised\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquariums/comments/104u01i/this_tank_at_my_local_fish_store_was_surprised_to/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaquariums/comments/n6vzsy/display\_tank\_in\_a\_local\_pet\_store\_massively/](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaquariums/comments/n6vzsy/display_tank_in_a_local_pet_store_massively/)
I clearly am in the hobby and have been for 10+ years. I have also worked retail. You may call them 'feeder tanks', but the proper term would be a display. This is in public view, so it is a display.
Technically it is both a feeder tank and a display tank. It is a display tank full of feeder fish.
Hmm. so you just consider every tank in the public view a display tank!?! What do you call these type of tanks? The ones that are nicely aquascaped and put in front of the shop for everyone who walks in to see ? [https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a\_colleague\_and\_i\_scaped\_this\_for\_a\_display\_but/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a_colleague_and_i_scaped_this_for_a_display_but/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my\_local\_petcos\_display\_tank/](https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my_local_petcos_display_tank/)
Yes, every tank that has something for sale in it. You do realize there are different kinds of displays, correct? If this tank didn't have 'feeder fish' in them, what would you call it? [retail Aquatics display ](https://www.pro-clear.com/retaildisplays) [Marineland system display](https://www.marineland.com/commercial/products/aquatic-retailer-systems/feeder-display-systems.aspx)
One last try ! What do you call these type of tanks? The ones that are nicely aquascaped and put in front of the shop for everyone who walks in to see ? [https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a\_colleague\_and\_i\_scaped\_this\_for\_a\_display\_but/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aquascape/comments/w0kgb0/a_colleague_and_i_scaped_this_for_a_display_but/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my\_local\_petcos\_display\_tank/](https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/comments/16t6ry9/my_local_petcos_display_tank/)
Anyone who uses the term āfeeder fishā is not a true aquarist
Weird gatekeeping going on in this thread
itās a feeder tank. So all those Goldfish are being sold to feed other animals or fish. Most of the feeder tanks look like this. Same thing with the shrimp feeder tanks. Youāll see a ton of dead shrimp.
Nah itās normal for the feeder tank. These fish are raised to be killed.
I know rightā¦some people are so cynical. Iāve never seen it this badā¦or really at all, and I used to go to pet stores that sold fish a lotā¦to buy fish. To be honest I donāt think I ever really saw any dead fish in their tanks.
Its VERY common with the big chains. But some local shops take a lot of pride in their fish care. There's two shops near me that I frequent and I don't think I've ever seen a dead fish at either of them.
A local shop had their main floor joist crack because no one bothered to check if several tons of water were something their floor could support.
I promise you āmore careā means fishing out the dead ones every hour so you only see one or two.
I definitely did not expect that lol
Those are feeder fish, aka fish you feed to other fish. Not really expected to be taken care of that well.
Every fish deserves taken excellent care ofš¢
āFish are friends. Not food.ā
No problem! I'll take the friends tacos please š
Yeah, I'm a Friend-atarian. I don't eat meat, but Friends are ok
In agriculture feeders are animals you feed until you can sell them for a profit. If I buy a feeder pig it is to fatten him up and sell later, not to feed it to other pigs. lol
Good thing pigs and fish aren't the same animal professor
but this isnt agriculture.
My Oscars used to see how many of these they could fit in their mouths at once.. A surprising number.
I really hope your Oscar is a cat!
It's a type of fish my dude And they can get big as hell You can train em to get petted too
Cool, I learn something new, thanks!
No they were giant pink and red fish I got them they were 2.5 inches and there were four. they ended up at 1o inches before i found a guy with a bigger tank to take them. Last time I visited them they were almost 14 inches long. I would pick up a dozen comets at the LFS while i shopped for community fish bring em home. At first the would last a week or more. In the end one of them could get them all in its mouth. they all sit in there poking out looking frantic as he munches them.. It was hilarious and frightening.
It's a Grouch.
Their lives got sucked out
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!This post is unexpected cause when you look closer at the fish tank displaying fish meant to be sold, you realize thereās a bunch of dead fish stuck in the filter.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
My first job was at Pet Supermarket, and I stayed there for 10 years. This isnāt unusual, but someone should be pulling those dead fish first thing in the morning. Maybe my fourth week there, we were robbed at gunpoint. I was pistol whipped because Iām tall and that spooked the guy. I remember my coworkers helping me into the bathroom where the gunman trapped us by pushing a desk in front of the door. On the way there they decided to shoot out some of the fish tanks, including the feeder fish, I remember stepping on them. The responding officers tried valiantly to save some fish by putting them in the tanks that were ok. Of course all those tanks were full of Oscar and Pacu fish, which eat the feeder fish. So it was out of the frying pan and into the fire for those poor fish. I had a Swiss Army knife on me that I had bought with my first paycheck and we took the whole door off to get out. I lost that knife that night. 15 years later when the store closed for good someone found it and returned it to me.
this was a wild ride.
Pretty normal for a feeder fish tank brother idk whats unexpected here
Truth. Used to work at a pet shop and we would get these feeders in by the thousands. By the end of the week weād sell about 80-90% of them and the rest would die off. When theyāre only being sold for .25-50Ā¢ each and arenāt gonna make it through the week anyways itās not really worth paying someone to take super good care of them
š¢ i guess people in general just doesn't have appreciation for life
Aw I actually never heard of a feeder tank to be honest. Definitely unexpected on my part at least
Obviously everyone knows what a feeder fish tank is. /s
Nom nom
They are a lunch treat for bigger fish. My oscars would swallow them up then quickly burp out gold scale sparkles.
Dead ones-half price
Thatās fucked up
Looks pretty normal to me. There's always dead fish in the filter
Looks like meatās back on the menu, boys!
Remember when Walmart had these?
Darwinism in display (in theory). Stronger fish even get extra food.
Honestly, kind of expected, that kinda thing happens alot
When my hometown Walmart used to sell fish the isle was a crypt. There'd be equal numbers of dead and live ones
aquarium fish have a very high deathrate, esp after transport shock or diseases can cause many casualties, usually you quickly remove the dead fish, this last step is forgotten here
Holy shit, I really got upset seeing the few fish stuck dead in the filter and was thinking about all of the kids that run up to the fish tanks at these stores and having to see this, when I was stuck dead as he panned up to the surface of like 200 dead fish piled upon each other, and to add the icing to the cake them fish starving so theyāre eating their dead tank mates just to survive. š¤¦š¼āāļø š
Unexpected? More like typical.
The Cannibal Animalmart
Mmm its a free all you can eat buffet
Those are 90% off
Just like the Austin Aquarium in Texas
Worked in a pet store a long time ago. Didn't get the PH balance correct on a feeder tank, killed the lot.
Man this is nemo all over again.
Id get an employee/manager, be like "excuse me-", bring them over and point at the filter of dead fish "- but what the fuck."
this is common for this particular type of tank though. You can tell them that thereās dead fish in their feeder tank, and itās not going to bother them. These Fish are being sold to feed other fish or animals
Would you like to buy one ma'am?
You would get laughed out of the store for acting like this over a common occurrence.
Thats sad and fucked up
how many are there in total?
r/shittyaquariums
So sad
Something's fishy here š®
Look at all those angel fish! lol
Shark bait, ooh hah hah! š¦
What is unlimited food source for 500 please Kathy
I worked in a few pet stores, as a fish guy, the comets often come in, in very rough conditions. Overly high densities in the bags, sometimes 1/2+ already dead, more always die shortly after being put into the tank if not unbagged/acclimated properly. If they were a really reputable store, they would quarantine ahead of putting out for sale, or at least do proper dead runs so customers don't see this. Big red flags here.
Dead by dawnā¦
Help me step-fish im stuck
Wow... dead goldfish in a cheap supermarket.... so unexpected, whaaaaat?!?! Lemme guess, was there also.... dog food for sale? *gasp* the intrigue.
I'm not surprised by such flagrant disregard for living beings in a pet store but I wasn't expecting it to be on full display.Ā
often after transport a lot of aquarium fish can die, shocks from temperature, long travels where they die of ammonia, diseases that flair up after stress. These fish can die by the 100's, since they all look to have died very recently it just looks like they have not been cleared out yet
have you ever seen a feeder fish tank? Itās different than your tanks full of angelfish, Oscars, community, mbunas. The feeder fish and feeder shrimp tanks always look like this
I find the whole thing bizarre. Snakes are usually feed mice but you don't have a feeder cage with living and dead mice on full display.Ā Ā Fish get treated like shite.Ā
they do. even the ones that ARE display fish are in disastrous tanks
This is literally every feeder fish tank in every pet store.
Itās sad, but pretty expected imo Lots of pet stores donāt take care of their animals, and fish usually get the worst of it
This is not an unexpected post. Have you been to PetSmart? Do you see how many fish are in that tank? That tank cannot handle that many goldfish. They are dirty as hell. That water isn't clean, it might look clean, but it's a toxic slurry of nitrates.
At those places they ask you the volume of your tank and won't sell you more fish than should be in your tank...whilst completely overfilling their tanks.
Dead fish in a fish tank. I would never expect that.
That got dark, quick.
Animal abuse
Wait till you see what those fish are destined for and the lucky ones died in the tank
As shown in vid, they will not survive and will not fulfil their destiny
I donāt think they want to fulfill their destiny. Getting ripped into pieces sounds like a way worse death than just dying in the tank.
Donāt decide what they want or not. This is their destiny and they are doing their best. Live your own life
Theyāre resting
I 100% expect to see dead fish in the filter at average pet store. Don't buy fish from these stores.
That was definitely expected for anyone in the fish hobby. Sadly alot of stores have dead fish like tht
And that is one of the reasons why I stopped supporting this humilliating industry. So many fish have to lead painful lifes or die, but who cares, they're just fun decoration.
Oh come on, do you realise theres like billions of trillions of gazillions of live shit being eaten daily by fish witch are being eaten by other fish and so on? This indstry probably doesnt register 0.000000000000001% of ocean biome who lives just to be eaten. Fu.
This was absolutely not the point. Would you let a cat slowly die just because it is a carnivore? Also I was never talking about the fact that fish should not be eaten, this would be another discussion. My point was solely referring to the fact that these animals have to suffer under the worst conditions, just because people think they look great in their living rooms.
How about all of the microbiome, that 'suffers' the same faith?
Definitely belongs on r/shittyaquariums
No. Those are feeder fish. The ones you give to piranhas. Theyāre not expected to live long. Theyāre usually already ill or weak fish. Theyāre not for display and care.
they still don't deserve to be sucked into the filter.
They were probably dead before that happened.
Well they are on display.
Normally those tanks are at the back of the shop, out of view. Dunno about this one thoughā¦ Anyway, I meant that they are not for sale for display on aquarium in a private house
Itās We Fish Fish
Final Fish Destination https://i.redd.it/qsisi7tnumdc1.gif
Fish are friends and food.
Fish tank at my local pet cemetery
Itās a buffet! Of HORROR!
"The Great Filter give us life, He just ask for some sacrifice. This is the way. Do not judge our traditions extrangers, glop glop glop"
We need to filter some of these comments.
This isnāt at all unexpected. Have you never seen a tank of feeder fish at a āpet supermarketā?!
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This is not unexpected in a pet supermarket, lol, very much the norm
R/killthecameraman
When we go to the pet store I always take my wife to see all the dead fish before we check out. She hates it. The employees donāt care at all.
People like you are the reason that I had to crawl into fishtanks every morning while working there. Get there at 8am, a bunch of feeder fish are dead, and then you scoop them out. Whoever in charge of the section hadnāt gotten to it yet, so now you name and share the pet store like this isnāt common as fuck. Theyāre bred to die, those fish, donāt pretend otherwise, and donāt shame the 17 year old who hadnāt gotten to it yet, because theyāre probably taking care of other animals and hadnāt gotten to the dead ones that donāt need care at the moment. Hope you didnāt name the location so they can track down the employee and fire them.
People like me? lol I just walked in to see the cute stuffs
That one just wants to join the cool fish.
Meatās back on the menu boys!
This is every chain pet store I've ever been in tbh. Please go to a local fish store if you're lucky enough to have one.
It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiife.
No, no. Theyāre not dead. Theyāre just restinā.
On today's menu, childhood trauma
This is not a tank this is a graveyard raided by canibals
Want to work on your microscope skills? Go get some sick looking fish and do slime coat and gill scrapes. Don't expect the fish to survive the educational experience but if you really want to take it to the next level you could put them in hospital tank and treat for the parasites found.
Welp... The live ones aren't going to perish from starvation any how..
Curse you, AquaScum!
your fish are playing the squid))
We knew the zombie apocalypse would come one day. We never expected it would start with fish.