:o This Looks Cruel

[blue_betta]

How do you know?!! Are you a fish?!!

well they have a brain the size of a chick pea so i dont think they are going to right fishy diaries of opression if they are in a smaller tank

chick peas are quite big i tink a bettas brain is about the sice of a pinhead... but your right, they dont "think" the same as we do... nowhere near the same level.

they can of course suffer "depression" of a sort, but its not a mental depression that humans and other "intelligent" animals can suffer from.

 

[doresy]

... but your right, they dont "think" the same as we do... nowhere near the same level.

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That's debatable these days!

 

[5teady_2012]

i'm sure the fry dont care...people forget that fish don't have complex brains like human and are not capable of feeling a fast majoirty of feelings etc

Prove it

 

[geo7x]

It could be alot worse, personally I find it positively suprising, cosidering it is such a mass business.

Can't expect them to drip acclimatise them into their own 10g longs can we

The fish don't know they're being picked up by a spoon do they.

 

[nemosworld]

i'm sure the fry dont care...people forget that fish don't have complex brains like human and are not capable of feeling a fast majoirty of feelings etc

Prove it

processing of emotions and emotional events are handled by the amygdala in the brain. humans have quite a developed amygdala, while fish, who have little need for emotions beyond the small bit of parental care, have a primitive one. therefore, i think it'd be safe to assume that a fish's range of emotions is not quite comparable to that of a human's

 

[blue_betta]

i'm sure the fry dont care...people forget that fish don't have complex brains like human and are not capable of feeling a fast majoirty of feelings etc

Prove it

processing of emotions and emotional events are handled by the amygdala in the brain. humans have quite a developed amygdala, while fish, who have little need for emotions beyond the small bit of parental care, have a primitive one. therefore, i think it'd be safe to assume that a fish's range of emotions is not quite comparable to that of a human's

well said!!

 

[newfishy]

but would they have instinct that says "holy cow swim away from the large spinning thing!" so would it not be at least slightly stressfull? or perhaps if their containers are cleaned very often it become normal as in "woohoo spin around like on a carnaval ride"?

 

[blue_betta]

but would they have instinct that says "holy cow swim away from the large spinning thing!" so would it not be at least slightly stressfull? or perhaps if their containers are cleaned very often it become normal as in "woohoo spin around like on a carnaval ride"?

if its done on a regular basis they become "habituatued" to it, ie.. they get used to it. some fish will obviously still get stressed by it and some will possibly even get excited by it. but for the most part they will likely just become habituated

 

[azulfire24]

It's not too bad, but look at the other video of them cleaning the jars.......must scare the hell out of the fish

umm i reallynhope the fry arent in there while they clean them,,,, the bristles look pointy.........

 

[Thirdfloor]

I was wondering the same thing...theres no way the fry can be in there when they "clean" them!