The cruel reality of the Betta Fish trade

[Catherine]

Most fish are not treated well. Fish in the pet trade are treated especially not well. Betta Fish are probably treated the worst. Because they partly breath air they are kept in small containers with no water filtration. The way they are raised is cruel and it is designed to maximize profits.  No thought is given to how many fish die before they are even shipped. When they are sorted for shipping the less perfect ones are discarded. Who knows what that means. It isn't something good.
They are shipped in small unsuitable containers to large pet store chains. Some are already dead, others die while waiting to be sold. Again, they are kept in small unsuitable containers.
Once sold they are kept in Betta Bowls or Betta tanks, again small unsuitable containers. The fish will live out its life in a barren uninteresting too small container.
Maybe the lucky ones are the ones that die before shipping. At no point does life get better for them.


https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsan...rter-fish/

At every stage it is a horrible life for them. People get Betta fish because they think they don't need care. These beautiful fish are sensitive and intelligent and people make no effort to meet their needs. Absolutely appalling is the practice of using fish as living decorations. I have seen the fish used as table decorations at an event. The article mentions them as hotel decorations. This all needs to be stopped. Fish need to be treated with respect and their needs must be met properly.
All fish need to be treated better, but we could start with one small fish known as a Betta.  If we treated this one fish well, maybe we could start to treat other fish better. It is worth a try.