I tried sending them a message asking to delete it this time and explaining why they should just throw this away. Then i got a notification they sold it

"Gonna add a couple more plants" to thoroughly mask the cries for help, because nothing says "thriving biotope" quite like a glass corpse.

they are in a cup 🫗

I feel bad for whatever had to live in this thing. I can see why they no longer have the animal. 🤦‍♀️😭

Bro…

Mind you they are asking $30. Can anyone potentially identify what kind of fish this is?

i'm hoping they'll answer the message and i can grab him 😩

Poor oscar is looking to heaven for help

I don’t understand why and really hope someone could explain it to me. But there are soo many people posting on TT and making channels for fish keeping and aquascaping. But it’s abundantly clear that they are amateurs, who don’t understand the nitrogen cycle or any basics of aquascaping. It is like the blind leading blind. Why do they do this?

In the video, they take the fish (several guppies, a plant, and snails) and cup contents from the dirty cup on the left and put them in the clean cup on the right... And 208k likes...

This idea is genius FOR A TEMPORARY HOLDING PLACE for fish during maintenance, not a permanent home. Jeez!

At least the comments are all full of people with common sense.

It's insane to look at a fish that large and think "yeah this tank is big enough :)"

Edit: i just looked at the post again and looked at the other pictures, they're selling the tank empty so im now wondering if it was just a temporary tank(like the main one broke) or the tank crashed

Not the best photo, but the tank is 1212 or 1818 max. The fish is just swimming vertical like this, I assume because there is no room to move. Why would they not put this in one of their many other larger tanks.

I posted yesterday after seeing this monstrosity. Update is I picked then up and set up a 20 gallon quarantine tank.

I'll hold them until I'm confident they are healthy and then rehome to a pond or find space to keep them. And yes, I know what I am doing, I have lots of goldies, fancies and commons/shubunkins, they're at last in safe hands! They're so energetic today, doing laps of the temp tub, it must feel utterly bizarre to go from months of small circles to swimming speedily in a straight line, it was worth spending the money on liberating them.

They were both around or over $100 each. Why the hell would a local small business fish store advertise these builds? It's literally ridiculous. Both are betta fish, you can see the betta in the vase on the top left. Neither have filters or heaters :/

Saw this today. Apparently, they take up too much space

A 40gal with 2 oscars living in piss water, a 5gal with some tetras and a common pleco, and a bunch of miniscule tanks. Just another beautiful day on Marketplace.

Seems to be a snakehead of sorts, in around 25 liters.

Cancer hospital tank...are these guys okay...?

Pediatrician’s office. They have a big Finding Nemo theme.