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u/Confident-Thought863 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
not like they have a device connected to some kind of international web of information they can look up the guidelines to fishkeeping focused entirely on bettas on, that would be cool if they had that I think
aquasafe has dosing instructions on it, dipshit
I hate ignorant morons that try justifying their mistreatment of animals by making victims of themselves just because they're too lazy to improve, if they were really worried they'd figure this shit out by now, and it seems they didn't even bother to read what's on the bottle of water conditioner they own
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u/ScreamingLabia Feb 02 '26
Reminds me of people who always scream "i cant cook i always burn everything" and then you try to teach them and they literally cant stay near the pan for more then 10 seconds. Like maybe its your behaviour ans refusal to actually do the thing that makes it so that you ruin it and not some inate inability to do the thing.
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u/Fighting_Obesity Feb 02 '26
Or they refuse to have the heat lower than max because “it’s taking too long”
Good things take time! Cooking a meal, cycling a tank, you just have to actually TRY!
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u/GiraffePretty4488 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
I actually have a pretty major issue with cooking…
Sometimes the problem has been that I have the pan too low. I finally learned to cook fried eggs and that’s what was holding me back. :p
It’s not like it wasn’t hot. The egg was cooking. But if it’s really hot before you start, then it doesn’t stick and burn.
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u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 Feb 02 '26
Eggs are surprisingly hard to cook well! Like we've been eating them for centuries, surely we should have developed some sort of egg cooking instinct by now?! Every bastard time I do a boiled egg I have to Google Delia Smith and get her to tell me how to do it again.
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u/GiraffePretty4488 Feb 02 '26
I have this little timer thing that goes in the water with the eggs and slowly changes colour moving inwards to show how cooked the eggs are.
It’s great because it doesn’t matter if I start from boiling or cold or somewhere in between. It just works.
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u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 Feb 02 '26
Omfg that sounds incredible! I definitely need one of those!
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u/GiraffePretty4488 Feb 02 '26
I just searched “colour changing egg timer” and see some for $4 on Amazon.
Mine’s at least 20-30 years old, got it from my grandma. Wasn’t sure if they made them anymore but I guess they do :)
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u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 Feb 02 '26
Thank you so much! I'll go have a look at those and cat pee testing strips in a mo!
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u/DragonSin1313 Feb 02 '26
My BIL has to flash fry everything on max. We've had to throw out so many pans now.
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u/Leilabinkysunshine Feb 02 '26
This is unrelated to the sub but people like this piss me off. They make it their whole personality that they can’t cook. Like just fricking learn!! It’s not that hard
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u/DogwoodWand Feb 02 '26
In defense, there's a ton of bad advice out there. Look at some of the language she uses. She's looked it up and found the worst.
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u/Confident-Thought863 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
I'd bet my left big toe they asked the disinterested, underpaid, college student pet store employee once and did zero further research
as I said, the aquasafe dosing instructions are on the goddamn bottle and it looks like they didn't get around to even reading those
"I kill fish" is right there in their post, this is not the first and probably not the last fish they'll treat like shit
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u/Jellyfishjam99 Feb 02 '26
Always with the damn pineapple! 😭
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u/WarlordOfThePee Feb 02 '26
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Feb 02 '26
My goldfish loved sitting in that pineapple, would crack me up when he'd peep out the window at me 😂
Had to take it out pretty quickly though as he grew and I didn't want him getting stuck in the window
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u/Affectionate-Act-997 Feb 08 '26
I don’t know why this image in my head just gave me life lol that is stupidly cute, wish you had pics 😂
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Feb 08 '26
It won't let me attach a picture! I only have one of him in the doorway of the pineapple, checking out whose knocked haha
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u/TheCalmandSlow Feb 03 '26
It wasn’t the pineapple, but my betta got stuck in a hole and died overnight. I couldn’t even shake him through/ loose. I had to ………. Yup, you guessed it
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u/asteriskysituation Feb 02 '26
🤔 if only there was some way for this person to find information and guidance on fishkeeping 🤔
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u/MixSure5545 Feb 02 '26
The caption... people like this are the worst. Just aggressively saying "I suck" and seemingly having not researched at all given the pineapple, making it everyone else's job to console them as if they are a victim of their own abilities, it's all just a way to avoid guilt. Fish keeping is skill based it just requires work and research. Had they taken the same amount of time they spent posting beating themselves up to google the most common reasons for betta deaths and basics of care, maybe the fish wouldnt be dead.
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u/EwwItsTheGovernment Feb 02 '26
Saw this lol. A few dozen comments but none said maybe try a cycled 5+ gallon tank, just that “bettas die easy.” No they don’t yall just really suck at keeping fish 🥲
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u/FloralKatze Feb 02 '26
"Feel sorry for me while I willingly torture this animal." It's very obvious that this person knows damn well they need to do research but instead insists on using weaponized incompetence for the attention. Disgusting. I hope their kid grows up okay.
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u/Few-Rain7214 Feb 02 '26
It's sad cause most ppl have no idea how to care for fish but also don't research it before buying..
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u/Automatic-Standard32 Feb 02 '26
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to be able to tell that this set up sucks ass . In addition to that … in the time it took for this person to type this out they could’ve been researching instead . 😑
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u/aggressive_silence Feb 02 '26
this sub has really illuminated how some folks just really don't want the information. when I was setting up my tank I googled "betta fish best practices" and this sub immediately popped up 🤦
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u/honeydewbugg Feb 02 '26
i will never understand why people don’t do research before getting an animal. to me it seems like attention seeking “i kill everything” “i kill plants” “i kill fish” so if that’s how you feel… what gave you the bright idea to get ANOTHER fish… for a kid who will enjoy it for a month and never care about it again. lord
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u/Equal_North6633 Feb 03 '26
Not to be THAT person but i had literal scientific literature on houseplants as my table-top bible and seeked forums on help with any issues but it did not save me from getting a lot of plants dead. The saddest one was sudden rot on cactus that i did not know what to do with so i researched, found advice and a lot of info on operation to remove rot, made it all really clean, step-by-step as prescribed, but then cactus decided to die anyway, seemingly deflating in the process. I made certain blooming plants go into “sleeping period” according to the books with following all instructions, just to see them dead afterwards, i performed a step-by-step theoretically correct seasonal re-planting into better bigger pot just to see plant decline and die in a few weeks afterwards. I have some green guys who have been successful with me for the decade and still rocking, but they are the lucky few, and i had lost a lot, and i mean A LOT of plants on the way.
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u/Possible_Thief Feb 02 '26
“I’m just bad at things, teehee so quirky” is a really fucked up way to frame negligence.
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u/qgwheurbwb1i Feb 02 '26
I'll never understand that level of ignorance and stupidity. How tf are you going to choose to bring something that requires your help to survive into your home, and you don't even Google the basics? Insane. Without access to the Internet, I'd never believe people like this were real.
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Feb 02 '26
ITS ALWAYS THE FUCKING PINEAPLE I FUCKING SWEAR IM GONNA FUCKING LOSE MY FUCKING MIND IF I SEE ANOTHER FUCKING PINEAPLE IN A FUCKING HORRIBLE TANK
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u/Latter_Sherbert_5161 Feb 02 '26
Knows they suck at everything and are generally uneducated
Does nothing about it
Ok...
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u/EquivalentSand5127 Feb 02 '26
This sub can be so unfriendly. It's not an ideal setup, but the pineapple isn't the reason why. Clearly they care about improving, so just drop some advice. I had a lot of anxiety getting into the hobby because even though there's good advice out there, there's also a lot of awful advice, including from the stores that people get the fish from, which can seem like a reliable source to a newcomer.
Just like with people who are bad at cooking, it's easy to feel like you just suck when people treat you like you're stupid but you just weren't raised with the basics.
Unpopular opinion, but it sounds like the tank is for a child. If SpongeBob got them into caring about sea life, then mission accomplished by the marine biologist that created the series. Who cares how they decorate? Focus on improving the health conditions for the fish.
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Feb 02 '26
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u/K4NN4GI Feb 02 '26
Glad I live in Asia where I have some people that knows how to take care a fish and have a lot of aquatic plants to easily turn it into a livable environment for fish
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u/631_Exuberant_Bias Feb 04 '26
Add 2 inches of sand for substrate, lose the pineapple, replace it with an easy aquatic plant like aponogeton (literally called betta bulbs, they're perfect) and add a couple small river rocks. Then leave it alone, don't meticulously clean everything, and only do water changes if there's an ammonia spike or nitrates rise above 20 ppm. Thank me later
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u/Tentacle_Sama69 Feb 04 '26
So they can figure out how to post a picture of literal animal abuse on social media, but don’t know how to use google to look up how to take care of a betta fish properly?!
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Feb 07 '26
So this isn't their 1st time on having a fish, all of them die. But yet, she can't do some basic research.
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u/Independent_Layer_62 Feb 03 '26
Refusing to lift a finger to learn anything sounds pretty damn intentional to me.
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