r/shittyaquariums 3d ago

What do we think about this?

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u/Chemical_Knee_2918 3d ago

2D prison

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u/toe_kn33 3d ago

Isn’t every aquarium or terrarium a prison? 🤔

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u/Chemical_Knee_2918 3d ago

Technically but think of the better ones as like furnished college dorms

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u/pingu6666 3d ago

Hehe I like this interpretation

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u/Chemical_Knee_2918 3d ago

Lol thank you

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u/wolfsongpmvs 2d ago

This looks like it would be one of those 1d panes of glass that has a image projected into it, not an actual aquarium

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u/pingu6666 2d ago

People seriously are like “Here’s this new creation I made! Let’s put a fish in it!”

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/CandyStarr23 2d ago

In this perspective, prison is better because you don’t have to pay rent or mortgage

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u/Stuffie_lover 2d ago

But you are guaranteed crazy roomates that should be in a psych ward. On the other hand its a 50/50 chance

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/CandyStarr23 2d ago

Good luck! Try not to get shivved! 👋

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u/chris5701 2d ago

no you can walk outside when you choose, a prisoner only is allowed out when told and a fish can't leave their box at all.

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u/toe_kn33 1d ago

You clearly never seen a betta fish jump 🤣

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u/MrHall 3d ago

is every college dorm room a prison? 🤔

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u/Difficult-Swimmer-76 2d ago

Pretty much and they smell

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u/Danb69 2d ago

Scandinavian prisons 🥰

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u/Re1da 3d ago

Considering my gecko can barely feed herself I'd call it an assisted living facility

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u/ThrowawayAutist615 3d ago

We're all imprisoned here on Earth

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u/No_Project_4015 2d ago

Waa, but earth is huge

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u/manga-boi 3d ago

paradox hitting my brain!!!!!

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u/manga-boi 3d ago

paradox hitting my brain!!!!!

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u/verykoalafied_indeed 2d ago

As an ex-inmate I always worry how my caged animals feel about living in a cage. I have to convince myself that maybe they didn't know what life was like outside a cage or enclosure. Kind of like someone who is born blind and/or deaf wouldn't know what it's like to see/hear, so they have no actual idea about what they are missing and can only go off what others tell them.

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u/GirlNextDoor4183 2d ago

If they were bred into captivity it is the only life they know I can’t imagine releasing them into the wild may not live as long. So I feel that part of what you said ❤️

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u/a_doody_bomb 2d ago

Ya but keepers who care their prisons are like norway or whever they get full secluded lifestyles

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u/Early_Accident2160 1d ago

You’ve got to be joking

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u/Better-Statement-812 3d ago

Imagine living your life in a hallway basically

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u/Decayingore 3d ago

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/Early_Accident2160 1d ago

Ye., don’t keep this .. this is bullshit dude. Give that fish a tank , are you kidding ?

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u/Ill_Most_3883 3d ago

At least in a hallway you don't hit the wall every time you turn around.

I would put this closer to living between the exterior and interior wall of an old home.

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u/TOMDeBlonde 3d ago

Jeezus youxre right

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u/Delicious-Passion-96 3d ago

Or in a porta John

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u/Arachnophobicloser 3d ago

Looks cool! Should not have sentient beings in it

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u/spiffynid 3d ago

Would look cool with some aquatic plants. or have a pathos growing out of the slot, but no critters.

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u/camoure 3d ago

I’d do an ant farm - they do really well in small spaces

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u/A_Shattered_Day 3d ago

Those aren't really any better though, those are just a bunch of sterile workers who try to build a nest for a queen who isn't there. A real formicarium requires much, much more space.

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u/Confident_Start_4077 3d ago

Eh depends, easily could be a cool terrarium for an acorn ants colony! They live, birth, grow old, and die in a single acorn

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u/LordGhoul 2d ago

I once accidentally kidnapped a whole ant colony like this because they happened to be a similar species. Took a tree fungus home, then confused ants came out of a tiny hole. I had to wait until all ants returned back inside and bring it back to the woods where I found it lol

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u/letschat66 2d ago

Why did this make me sad?

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u/DragonsAreNifty 3d ago

Think a cherry shrimp would be ok? It’s a pretty gorgeous container, though I’m not sure it would be suitable for any animals.

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u/Latter_War_2801 2d ago

Brine shrimp probably

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u/Enderbro231 2d ago

Could put some cool small water bugs in it, like water louse or Scuds, hell id fill it with daphnia

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u/MirrorscapeDC 1d ago

Might work, depending on water volume. They are a lot smaller, so shouldn't struggle to turn around. But you would need to plant it properly.

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u/Dr_ChungusAmungus 3d ago

It would be a neat mini shrimp tank

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u/Sufficient_Party_909 3d ago

Nothing cooler on my desktop than a little depressed fish desperately squeezed between two walls like they’re Scrat from Ice Age

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u/Rudylemonade 3d ago

He’s just like me fr

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u/A_n0nnee_M0usee 3d ago

Yup. A visual metaphor for our office lives.

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u/Every_Principle_7912 3d ago

it looks extremely skinny... erring on the side of shitty, as well as a nightmare to clean

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u/Worried_Day661 3d ago

You had me at nightmare to clean

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u/Intimidating_furby 3d ago

If it was bigger it could be a cool ant farm

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u/Googalyfrog 2d ago

Or brine shrimp

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u/JacketInner2390 3d ago

Even ant farms need more space than that 

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u/grimiskitty 3d ago

I think that's why they said "if it was bigger..."

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u/JacketInner2390 3d ago

Oh sorry I didn’t read it properly 

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u/grimiskitty 3d ago

No it's cool, I just wanted you to know there was a miscommunication or misreading. I've seen arguements started over less and I think we all just want to agree this tank sucks and shouldn't exist unless they make it bigger and better..

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u/JacketInner2390 3d ago

Yes I agree 

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u/a_youkai 3d ago

Can it even turn around?? :/

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u/walgreenshatesme 2d ago

Was just going to ask! No way it’s comfortable if the fish can

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u/Comfortable-Slip2599 2d ago

Fish is facing in a direction in the second pic so it's all fine

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u/Lonely_Importance_61 3d ago

This is a beautiful decoration but I would never put any fish in it.

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u/WeirdSpeaker795 3d ago

Yeah imagine only being able to walk left or right.

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u/pyxiedust219 3d ago

not the schwa prison tank…

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u/RexDoesntKnowAnymore 3d ago

Who in their right minds would think that this was alright?!?!!?

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u/Decayingore 3d ago

No idea! The people making those creations were speaking a different language, but people were supporting it in the comments

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u/Justice_Prince 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm guessing this may be some kind of resin filled diorama. Or maybe I just have too much faith in humanity.

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u/blind_disparity 3d ago

We think that the product is 1/10 the size that photoshopped betta tries to make it look

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u/Viera95 3d ago

Would make a cool sea monkey tank

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u/Forestt_Gobblin 3d ago

It doesn’t even have space to look towards the camera 😭 it must be hell trying to turn around

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u/A_n0nnee_M0usee 3d ago

They have an Instagram account Decofish but the company isn't English speaking. The video has a larger tank with small Angel fish. It all does look stunning but like the company's name, the fish are just decorations. 😢

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u/pingu6666 3d ago

Put 5 more in there

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u/jaybird4234 3d ago

Horrible not even good enough for guppies

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u/TurantulaHugs1421 3d ago

Its not enough for anything i wouldnt even say shrimp or snails

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u/Cam515278 2d ago

They have a much larger one that I think would be gorgeous with cherry shrimp.

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u/fruitless7070 3d ago

Cool enough without adding a fish. Just cause it holds water and looks cool doesn't mean you should throw in a fish.

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u/PeopleOnTheCeling 3d ago

Ahh yes. The Bill Cipher treatment. Very humane and totally not a form of animal abuse.

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u/AccomplishedEgg9768 3d ago

Cute as a glass painting idea, jail for whoever put a fish in that thing

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u/666xm 3d ago

The tank I'll keep my worst enemy in after turning them into a fish in order to torture them in a way they'll be forced to make a Geneva Convention sequel.

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u/Mack-Attack33 3d ago

Imagin living in the walls of your house instead of in the actual rooms! Poor fishy!

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u/Smiley_P 3d ago

Can it even turn around??

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u/Spitfire262 3d ago

God has left us or has died perhaps

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u/Yogi422 3d ago

This would be great for a fish you hate 👍 But seriously I wouldn’t even put a plant in that thing

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u/Pegagenisus 3d ago

I would so have this if it wasn’t like a half an inch thick. Just make it wider and I could so do something with that

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u/fleshycoelocanth 3d ago

Terraria but you cant turn around and also you cant do anything really

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u/ayoitsfern 3d ago

the brand being “decofish” tells me everything i need to know

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u/Reptile2121 3d ago

Would be gorgeous as a resin piece, I don't get why people do this with living creatures

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u/OttovonShriek 3d ago

Is it not a resin piece? This can't be an actual fish, surely to god.

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u/Pups_Downfall 3d ago

We should just invent super realistic robot fish so people can't put actual animals in stupid tanks like these

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u/Grizlatron 3d ago

Obviously bad, but if it was a little robot fish, I'd be down for it.

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u/TurantulaHugs1421 3d ago

How the hell does it turn around

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u/vampire_queen_bitch 3d ago

depressing and very sad

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u/raccoon-nb 3d ago

Looks sort of cool. Not for living, sentient beings though. At the very most, I'd maybe put a few snails or some sea monkeys in there, but even that's a stretch. Maybe just some small plants.

Looks like it would be a nightmare to clean too.

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u/ThisGul_LOL 3d ago

I’m suffocating just thinking about this

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u/Bboy0920 3d ago

If you have space for this you have space for a better tank.

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u/WhiteBushman1971NL 3d ago

Very cool container for a dozen neocaridina shrimp, aquatic isopods, scudds, bladder snails and a few other tiny aquatic creatures, but no way suited for anything bigger than that... that would be animal abuse.

Also very suited for a mossarium with some terrestrial isopods and small millipedes.

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u/PuzzleheadedBear 2d ago

Horrible for fish, but i would 10,000% subject my shrimp to this as if it was an aquatic ant farm.

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u/Electrical_Pair_8387 2d ago

What the fuck

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u/SinceWayLastMay 3d ago

Snails and plants would be actually cool :(

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u/FishTankTrev 3d ago

you think a small group of shrimp could live happy in here? it being more planted ofc

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u/SinceWayLastMay 3d ago

Probably some tiny hardy ones that wouldn’t mind living between two panes of glass

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u/SpeedrunAccordeon 3d ago

Sea monkeys!

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u/Spottledmutt 3d ago

If it was like a fake betta inside instead it could be cool ig

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u/Retarded_Ratty_Fatty 3d ago

this would be so cool for some plants, but defiantly no fish. Can he even turn around?

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u/Island-Grrl-73 2d ago

Definitely, not defiantly.

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u/Retarded_Ratty_Fatty 2d ago

oh lol. silly autocorrect

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u/Island-Grrl-73 2d ago

Gets us every time! 😉

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u/Steelcitysuccubus 3d ago

Cruel! Couldn't even grow a plant in that well

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u/FeralGoblinChild 3d ago

If the fish is resin, it's pretty sweet. If the fish is live, my soul hurts

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u/0111001101110101 3d ago

"I swear my tank is 5 gallons" The 5 gallons in question:

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u/CaitlinSnep 2d ago

Horrible for fish, but at least prettier/cooler than some of the other 'aquariums' I've seen here.

Use this to house something doesn't actually need to be able to turn around (or something small enough to live comfortably) and I wouldn't have an issue with it.

But that betta...does not belong in there.

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u/Versal-Hyphae 2d ago

Wow! This is evil. :)

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u/Imaginary-Ad7570 2d ago

No filter, no heater and no third dimension

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u/thatwannabewitch 2d ago

Can that poor fish even turn around??? 💀

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u/Decayingore 2d ago

Surprisingly yes, but the beta was small and struggling to turn around

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u/thatwannabewitch 2d ago

Poor baby. 😭 it’s a cool concept if it was scaled up to actually give the fish room to swim.

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u/aoi_ito 2d ago

Wth?!?!! It's even worse then a fking bowl. 😭

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u/stealtheagle52 2d ago

I think the concept is cool, but definitely way to thin Make it big enough so the fish could thrive and it would be neat

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u/corvuscorpussuvius 2d ago

This isn’t even a prison, this is a mythological torture scenario.

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u/Non-binary_prince 2d ago

I kinda want to plant it tho?

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u/BeastSwearingen 2d ago

It's absolutely amazing at getting that perfect view of your fish!

And the way it shows that you don't give a crap about him will also be on glorious display as well!

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u/Rightbuthumble 2d ago

Poor thing.

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u/Cautious_Swan_2637 2d ago

I feel bad for the fish 😢

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u/TrilobiteBoi 2d ago

It's an absolutely beautiful concept that's outshined by its own impracticality.

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u/NE_Higgs 2d ago

Cruel.... a fish is not a decoration....

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u/Use_Once_and_Deztroy 1d ago

Search your heart, padawan. you know the truth.

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u/MysteriousCricket718 3d ago

how does it turn around in there what—?

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u/Demirom_1010 3d ago

This betta knows that with this 1x5 tiny hallway it will need bed frame made of galvanized steel for its many many children.

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u/FRAN71C 3d ago

Its cool but you really wanna torture your fish with no swimming space?

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u/Ratfinka 3d ago edited 3d ago

One day I saw the light in my fish's eyes, and I can't go back to unseeing it.

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u/Clean-Actuator9445 3d ago

God I hope it rolls.

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u/Background-Sense5424 3d ago

But can we fit goldfish in it?

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u/Len_S_Ball_23 3d ago

Is that a General Zod betta?

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u/ImpressiveReserve510 3d ago

Absolutely not

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u/acelaces 3d ago

Torture

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u/DeliciousRegion5943 3d ago

Looks potentially unsafe.

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u/Silent-Wonder6546 3d ago

It could be cool if it was wider and at least 5 gallons

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u/Hot-Remote-4948 3d ago

Not sure I can fit my SpongeBob Pineapple in there.

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u/Ancient-Crow-2932 3d ago

Hahahahaha!!!

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u/Lemak0 3d ago

I think this could be really cool, if it was for plqnts and maybe gastropods only.

Putting fish in there is diabolic lol

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u/Remarkable_Emu4573 3d ago

Should’ve just had cherry shrimp

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u/wahsac 3d ago

i feel like in theory this could be an amazing propagation station for gardening. terrible home for an animal, but a decent looking piece of furniture depending on what you want for your home

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u/Awbbie 3d ago

That'd make a cook formicarium.

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u/ThrowAbout01 3d ago

I didn’t think the fish could even turn around in this and that the picture was just flipped.

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u/Dogzrthebest5 3d ago

It could be really neat, if it was bigger. I'm curious how the poor guy turns around in that.

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u/Fickle_Grapefruit938 3d ago

How does the fish turn around? It really doesn't look wide enough for the poor fish to turn

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u/Ok-Foundation-8880 3d ago

let the owner try to live in it

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u/cloud1445 3d ago

If you stick a plant in it instead of a fish it'd be cool. Definitely not cool for the fish.

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u/Squid4545 3d ago

id be claustrophobic, poor thing :(

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u/UncoolOcean 2d ago

Im going insane

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u/a_doody_bomb 2d ago

My day is ruined i hate you

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u/Logical-Win5390 2d ago

I would just not buy that tank.

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u/Eijiroll 2d ago

make it smaller

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u/SquirrelKaiser 2d ago

Take the betta out and it look nice.

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u/ExpensiveEcho7312 2d ago

This would be so pretty without the betta. This is amazing for small plants

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u/letschat66 2d ago

I feel awful for any fish that has an owner dumb enough to buy that.

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u/pickledprick0749 2d ago

It’s got to be like 2 cups of water

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u/El_Pollo_Mierda 2d ago

I hate it.

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u/emuuwu 2d ago

great tank…for a moss ball. jfc I can’t with people. 🤦‍♀️

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u/4685486752 2d ago

Poor fish

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u/QuirkyCatLady2023 2d ago

I think this would be perfect for a community tank. Maybe even a betta sorority, and a pleco. /s

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u/Glittering-Baker-710 2d ago

would sea monkeys do good in this? or should that be a strictly no living things container

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u/Decayingore 2d ago

Honestly they would

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u/Acrobatic-Engineer94 2d ago

How does it turn around?

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u/LilyGaming 2d ago

Looks cool, but too thin for the fish

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u/OwnRecommendation576 2d ago

It would ROCK for a bunch of plants, but I cannot imagine putting any living creature in there

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u/Moasark_Art 2d ago

Actually, this could potentially not be too bad. I remember betas tend to like to swim back and forth more than all around, but that still is probably way too thin. If it were a good few inches wider it might actually be okay

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u/gorgonopsidkid 2d ago

This could be great for ants maybe

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u/tootmyownflute 2d ago

Would be beautiful if it were fake

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u/Intelligent_Fail819 2d ago

you can never turn around!

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u/Glad-Goat_11-11 2d ago

at what point do you think they realize bettas jump

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u/Fun-Standard2360 2d ago

It can only accelerate and reverse for the rest of its life no u turns allowed

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u/Rich_Dimension_9254 2d ago

Garbage tank

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u/PlagueBirdZachariah 2d ago

At least in a fish bowl they can turn around

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u/wretchedsorrowsworn 2d ago

Fish dystopia

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u/Humble_Specialist_60 2d ago

can it fucking turn around?!?!??!?

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u/undisclosedme 2d ago

this making me claustrophobic just looking at it. “decofish” when will mfs stop treating living beings as decorations just because they’re small and don’t make any noise

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u/verykoalafied_indeed 2d ago

Would be much better as a decoration with a fake fish inside some epoxy resin

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u/WispieShizzies 2d ago

Make it significantly wider and we'll call it a shrimp tank

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u/peteyd2012 2d ago

2D torture chamber.

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u/KurwaOCoChodziTu 2d ago

Terraria decor

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u/porcupinedeath 1d ago

I've never kept fish myself but this is hellish to me. I know at the very least even small fish need fairly large tanks to actually be healthy/happy

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u/smoishymoishes 1d ago

If it were like...a foot or two wider, I'd be in love with it

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u/Elfynnn84 1d ago

It’s not the worst conditions I’ve seen one kept in 🤷🏻‍♀️ can it even turn around though? Does it have to swim in one direction?

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u/Doomcubus 1d ago

Google headquater's fish tank be like: G

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u/alankutz 1d ago

Murder tank

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u/Drakorai 1d ago

Plastic fish. Give the actual fish a proper tank and setup.

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u/Mental-Pineapple5475 16h ago

He can’t even turn around 😢

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u/cattyatti 11h ago

They could've just built this as a pleasing painting/sculpture. Why on earth did they have to involve a real fish in this??

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u/deathwotldpancakes 19m ago

Make it about five times wider and put heat and filtration in the frame and that’ll actually be really cool

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u/HappyLittleDelusion_ 3d ago

Would look nice with some plants. If it was bigger it would be a cool guppy/endler tank.

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u/Greenhen678 2d ago

It could be worse 😅⃤​

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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 1d ago

Not narrow enough. The fish can still turn around if it tucks and rolls.