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African or European?

Keyword is eventually.

Goldfish can live for like 30 years, Koi up to 50.

I mean look at this son of a bitch

In a 10 gallon usually a year or two. In a goldfish bowl you got like a month before that thing shits itself to death.

But what happens is their organs keep growing with age but their bodies can't go any larger because the tank isn't large enough. Unfortunately this results in them literally exploding from the inside, their spine breaks and they die a painful slow death.

We get roughly 20-25 Bettas every week on shipment days. Bettas are not like regular fish, and they can be sold without my permission, you just take the cup and go. For the week or so that each Betta is with us they are okay in those cups. We change their water every two days so it is not dirty.

I love Bettas, and they are getting trendy recently. PetSmart has a lot of those .5-1 gallon tanks on clearance because I'm fairly sure we are getting rid of them completely. Most of the new Betta tanks I see are 2.5 gallon+ and come with a filter, a heater, a LED hood etc. I personally avoid selling the smaller gallon tanks to customers for bettas and suggest the larger ones, just a moral kind of thing I guess. Wife used to have the Betta Falls thing... what a piece of shit that is.

Fact of the matter is that PetSmart is a business and most of our animals are not kept in adequate terrarium/aquarium enclosures because 1: they sell quickly and 2: floor space. If we had proper tanks for everything it would take up the whole store. For example, you need at least a 30 gallon tank for a single goldfish, yet we will keep 5 or more of them in a 10 gallon cold water system.

Our local competitor tells customers that whole "Anything over 1 gallon will stress the betta out" myth to sell their tiny-ass Betta bowl things, and I would suspect so that the Betta dies quick and they come back for a new one. At our store we actually have morals and will definitely not do that to customers.

It can't carry a coconut. A swallow is about eight inches long and weighs five ounces, and you'd be lucky to find a coconut under a pound.

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