Betta rescue

[Divinityinlove]

I'm unsure if I am allowed to share links actually so sorry, please remove if not so.

I was so amazed by this I had to share. If I saw a fish in this state I would assume there's no saving it. Just water changes, twice a day even and antibiotics?

If I ever enquire about sick fish, or look up content online /YouTube, most of the time people say they weren't able to save their fish. They're so fragile, lost so easily.

I was so impressed by this and that she had rescued 80 fish I had to share this. Was I just not optimistic enough or is she some type of fish whisperer?

Unfortunately it was sent to me on a Facebook link so hope you can watch.
Betta Rehab video:

Little Fish Who Wouldn't Eat Or Swim Is Completely Transformed | Little fish had given up on life until someone stepped in to save him — he even grew a tail and turned the prettiest color ❤️ | By Little But Fierce by The Dodo | Facebook

46M views, 57K likes, 34K loves, 3.2K comments, 8.4K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Little But Fierce by The Dodo: Little fish had given up on life until someone stepped in to save him — he even...

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[Sgooosh]

I'm unsure if I am allowed to share links actually so sorry, please remove if not so.

I was so amazed by this I had to share. If I saw a fish in this state I would assume there's no saving it. Just water changes, twice a day even and antibiotics?

If I ever enquire about sick fish, or look up content online /YouTube, most of the time people say they weren't able to save their fish. They're so fragile, lost so easily.

I was so impressed by this and that she had rescued 80 fish I had to share this. Was I just not optimistic enough or is she some type of fish whisperer?

Unfortunately it was sent to me on a Facebook link so hope you can watch.
Betta Rehab video:

Little Fish Who Wouldn't Eat Or Swim Is Completely Transformed | Little fish had given up on life until someone stepped in to save him — he even grew a tail and turned the prettiest color ❤️ | By Little But Fierce by The Dodo | Facebook

46M views, 57K likes, 34K loves, 3.2K comments, 8.4K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Little But Fierce by The Dodo: Little fish had given up on life until someone stepped in to save him — he even...

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if you search the title up on youtube i think its there

i hope she adopted or got the fish for free since if she bought the fish that would be supporting the business of the store that is abusing the betta

 

[Divinityinlove]

Would be weird if a store had a fish in this condition on sale no?

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Would be weird if a store had a fish in this condition on sale no?

No, not strange at all, especially in the US where it's "the norm" to have listless bettas half dead in stacks of cups. People who are new to fish aren't great at spotting illness in fish, understandably, and the stores buy them for super cheap, so have no incentive to care for them well, especially the big chain stores. Animal welfare laws and charities rarely worry about the welfare of fish either.

It's best not to buy fish from stores that keep them in this condition. As much as it's natural to want to try to save those individual fish, the store only records it as successful sales, and places a larger order next time, condemning more fish to wind up like this.

Smaller, privately owned local fish stores are more likely to keep bettas in better condition, but not always.

 

[Divinityinlove]

No, not strange at all, especially in the US where it's "the norm" to have listless bettas half dead in stacks of cups. People who are new to fish aren't great at spotting illness in fish, understandably, and the stores buy them for super cheap, so have no incentive to care for them well, especially the big chain stores. Animal welfare laws and charities rarely worry about the welfare of fish either.

It's best not to buy fish from stores that keep them in this condition. As much as it's natural to want to try to save those individual fish, the store only records it as successful sales, and places a larger order next time, condemning more fish to wind up like this.

Smaller, privately owned local fish stores are more likely to keep bettas in better condition, but not always.

I thought it was bad enough to see "Pets at home" stores displaying individual male bettas in tiny half shoebox size tanks. The mininal space for them to float and flap their gills, not swim. Just a box with naybe 2 gallons of water or so. I don't imagine people buy fish too often so god knows how long they stay there and how many of them are euthanized eventually. How long can they stay alive like that? At least the other fish can swim even if in busy tanks. The male bettas are kept in such tiny tanks they can only stay in one spot facing the same direction, towards the display front. That made me very sad. I've never seen an aquatic shop in UK/London stocking fish in the way you describe though. That's awful. Ofcourse I wouldn't buy from there.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

I thought it was bad enough to see "Pets at home" stores displaying individual male bettas in tiny half shoebox size tanks. The mininal space for them to float and flap their gills, not swim. Just a box with naybe 2 gallons of water or so. I don't imagine people buy fish too often so god knows how long they stay there and how many of them are euthanized eventually. How long can they stay alive like that? At least the other fish can swim even if in busy tanks. The male bettas are kept in such tiny tanks they can only stay in one spot facing the same direction, towards the display front. That made me very sad. I've never seen an aquatic shop in UK/London stocking fish in the way you describe though. That's awful. Ofcourse I wouldn't buy from there.

No, thankfully it's less common here, but it's very common in the US for bettas to be stored in those tiny cups. In big racking systems even. Used to be more common when their walmarts sold fish, you can find plenty of youtube videos showing the way they kept bettas in those conditions.
Happened mainly because male bettas cannot be housed together, and because bettas are able to breathe air from the surface, so they can technically survive in terrible conditions longer than many other fish species can.