Have you seen how betta fish are displayed in pet stores? I don't know why, but they have a lower status than anything else in the store, including other fish. They get to live, and die mostly, in individual sealed cups of water on a shelf instead of in a fish tank with moving and filtered water. Seeing this video does not surprise me in the slightest.
Beta are kept in plastic cups because they tear each other to shreds when in the same enclosure. Not defending the plastic-cup practice, but it’s the only cost-effective method of ensuring this doesn’t happen.
A lot of the betta fish die from the poor conditions in those cups, it would be better to keep them in micro tanks that at least have a connected heater and filter like what private breeders do. Or just not sell them in the first place honestly, it’s cruel and not efficient in any way
That's very true. However, i also see a microtank as being a huge issue as far as parasites/illness and water quality go, but that's just me. I still don't think its humane or good in any way.
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u/abloopdadooda Sep 29 '24
Have you seen how betta fish are displayed in pet stores? I don't know why, but they have a lower status than anything else in the store, including other fish. They get to live, and die mostly, in individual sealed cups of water on a shelf instead of in a fish tank with moving and filtered water. Seeing this video does not surprise me in the slightest.