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There's two sides of tiktok: absolutely stunning, and wanting to waterboard myself

the utter disappointment on chris' face when the kid picked up the pink gravel😂🤣😂🤣

Everyone: Well I deadlift 225...
Me: I can carry my water change bucket up the stairs.

As someone involved in the BDSM community, I can say that when done right, BDSM involves clear, direct, and honest communication between both parties, empathy and direct negotiation, and lots of safety measures, including safe words. These fish, however, had none of that and were treated with none of the finesse, respect, and gravitas that is expected in BDSM. God fucking bless TikTok.

I was so triggered at a petsmart the other day! Everyone was buying a betta and putting it in a 2-3.5 tank and it was really hard for me to not freak out on them 😂

I ain't even mad about the pink betta fish tank. Homeboy got 3 filtered gallons alone! That's 2.9 more gallons than most bettas 😂

"Impulsive and fishkeeping doesn't go together"... And here I am, with the goldfish I found dying in a vase at the elevator. Did I plan to get fish? No. Did I have a fishtank? I had one I used to have a hamster in? And now, 7 years later, I have a 184 gallon planted tank with 7 monsters I scold daily for uprooting the plants, battling them into infinity to get the plants rooted enough so they can't pull them out again XD

It hurt seeing those goldfish in that small tank. I dont think they originally were in that tank either. They produce a growth inhibiting chemical that stunts them when the concentration is too high. They couldn't get that big if they all grew up in there.

8:37 they say “cannibals” but that’s just like if a human ate a monkey

I was so impressed with the first two "impulse" buys. 3.5gal isn't perfect got a betta but so much better than the .5 gal we see so often

3:20 I was actually impressed they knew that much, didn't go for the smallest tank, and at least made an attempt to make it somewhat natural while still appealing to a little child. It's not perfect but they clearly did SOME research or listened to the advice of the store employees. While the fish isn't in a 100% perfect environment, it's in a fairly great one, and a far better one than most of its shelfmates will likely go to.

When I was little my Mom flushed a few fish. We had a funeral and she would tell my sis and I they were going to the “sea doctor”. He’d fix them up and they’d swim free and see all their friends 😅 me at about 4 totally believed in this mysterious “sea doctor”.
*note: don’t have alot of fish deaths as an adult fish keeper but they end up buried in my outdoor flowerbeds. If one passes in winter I actually freeze them so they can be properly buried in the spring. Live and learn. 😊

The Eel Pit guy deserves his own fish tank review!

I think my tank is a 45 gallon and my friend asked me this, “Why did you get that big of a tank for some small guppies??  Just use a fish bowl.”
We haven’t spoken in like 2 weeks

Really aquascape is just a matter of taste and preference, as long a the owner likes the look and of course it's all fish-safe then it's not really a problem
Really glad to see that those two tiktoks didn't end as badly as I thought they would

That shrimp bowl though, that is mindblowing...

10:10 . Thank you for your words. My betta swam in a heavily planted 13 gallon tank, parameters and everything always checked off as good. He made it to a year, before he passed a few weeks ago. When I noticed he wasn't doing great and had some sort of swelling on one side of his face and a white spot around his gills I went to my lfs. They sold me something to treat him with and something extra for the tank. So I put him in a seperate tank, treated him for one and a half weeks. At first it seemed to help, the white spot disappeared, but the swelling didn't. Once he was only moving to get some air every now and then, I knew that there was no happy ending. I put him back into his original tank, where he laid on the plant leaves for another day and a half, before he finally left.

I still have the tank, continuing a long term treatment. I don't want to give up fish keeping, but niether do I feel like trying once again.

3:20 i call this tank "barbie hell"

6:20
Wife: Honey what are you doing?
Husband: ssshhh Jenny, it's time for me to mow my fish tank. This is me time.

I'm impulsive as heck when it comes to fish tanks. 😅 Meaning I poured over $600 into getting a heavily planted 37 gallon for guppies and shrimp. Took MONTHS 😅 and I love it. Then I got a 5, then a 20, now a 55 😅😅 MTS hits hard. Too many fish I want. (note I've been keeping fish for 20 years. Just starting back up after no tanks for close to a decade)