most abused fish

which fish is most often abused?

  • goldfish

    Votes: 38 50.7%
  • bettas

    Votes: 24 32.0%
  • livebearers

    Votes: 1 1.3%
  • BIG fish (arowanas, pacus, ect.)

    Votes: 9 12.0%
  • other

    Votes: 3 4.0%

  • Total voters
    75
the poor common pleco
 
the most abused fish I can think of is the oscar. why just yesterday I met a very sick man at wal-mart who kept his oscar in a tiny 10g tank, and when I said they need a 55g tank, bare minimum, he scoffed at me and said "oh but the
guy at the fish store said it would just grow to the size of the tank" and when he was buying a feeder goldfish nearly the size of his oscar and I told him that goldfish have little value as feeders IMO and that he should feed oscar pellets with an occasional ghost shrimp or freeze-dried krill, he said "whats fun about watching it eat pellets" what a sick bast@rd!!!
 
I think gold fish is the most abused for this reason: Most popular fish for kids.

Though I think some of the large fish are abused a lot also, cuz people don't put them in large enough tanks.
 
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