Whatever looks beautiful doesn't mean it is beautiful. Aquariums might be a beautiful showpiece for someone but there is also a hidden torture and disrespect of many innocent lives. Yes, aquatic creatures captured in aquariums can't be happy and willing to entertain you. It is the same as an innocent being is captured in a cage and you expect some entertainment from him, would he entertain the spectators? Probably not but, spectators might be happy and entertained by seeing him in pain and torture. Isn't it shows the uncompassionate character of spectators? If it is not a compassion in case of the human being then how it could be compassionate nature to see the innocent fishes captured inside a small glass box and called it entertainment?
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What happens in aquariums
- Aquariums are confined spaces.Home and office aquariums are very small in size and even most of the public aquariums are also small in size. Many fishes kept in such small space. Fishes are a very sensitive creature and fish, which would in the wild swim many miles a day, are typically confined and subjected to stress and shock from people tapping on the glass, excess light, encounters with tank-mates etc.
- Due to unbalanced and artificial diet fishes languish in poor health. All fishes have a different need for their food but in fish-tank, they all supplied same food, which deteriorates their health.
- Unbalanced and artificial environments designed entirely for the enjoyment of aquarium owner or visitor rather than the welfare of the fish. The pain of living in an artificial environment could be felt ourselves if we are kept in a confined space without any natural light, air, and food!
From where fishes come in aquariums
- In the most aquariums, fishes are wild caught. This is a matter of concern not only because fish populations are already highly exploited but also because the live-capture industry is not well-regulated, and some of its practices are highly questionable. For example, hand-made bombs and sodium cyanide are still sometimes used to stun and capture fish.
- some fishes are not wild caught but they are farmed. Again farming is a cruelty. A large no of fishes are forced to bread in a totally unnatural environment. They born in captivity and died in captivity.
Millions of Aquarium Fish Are Caught Each Year With Cyanide
Do we learn anything about fishes from aquariums?
- It is a very common and weak argument given in support of aquariums that aquariums are very good for the educative purpose. Specially for children that they learn a lot about aquatic animals from aquariums. But what we learn is the most important. By taking children to these places, we are communicating to them indirectly that it is acceptable to confine non-human animals to small tanks that dramatically restrict their movement, and derive pleasure from gawking at them.
- Going wild places to see aquatic animals swimming freely is the ideal way to learn and entertainment but if it not possible, other option is to watch documentaries or read books about marine animals.
If I were a creature I wouldn’t want to spend my entire life in a small space. Swimming around from one end to the other. Animals in cages have been known to become frustrated and banging their heads on their cages and go insane and live their entire life in stress. Need to have freedom isn’t just a human one. I don’t know how a fish feels in aquariums, but the kind of lives they have there, must not be pleasant.
it breaks my heart to see friends who have fish as pets...we just have to keep educating people...thanks for posting this!
Great post! It's so important that we talk about this subject. So many don't realize the cruelty behind aquariums. Resteeming this amazing content
A lot of people get distracted by the colorful fish and do not realize their living conditions. It's far to common to have not enough space and overcrowding. Hopefully we can work to change that.
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Wow Good update thanks for valuable post thanks for sharing
At least there's free food...and, if you're lucky and you have a good master...a good clean environment(?)
I would prefer free life instead of free food!
You must not be an American city dweller...lol...
So do American city dwellers prefer to spend their entire life as a prisoner where they would be served free food?
That's what city life is...basically... and a very large percentage of them are on welfare.
Looks like you don't have any idea of a prisoner's life.
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I think most of people will say that it is not that cryel if the fish is lucky to have a good owner as it can have food freely and a cozy home(cozy home for the people who see but not for the animal who will put on it)... In the wilderness that pet will need to strive hard. And in people perspection they think that it more convenient to animal to keep them cause the animal/pet will no need to risk their life for food or they will be more safe from it's prey...
I think that's what people tell themselves to have a clean conscience =)
Would you prefer to be locked inside your house for your entire life, depend entirely on another for your food, hygiene, et c. or take your chances against predators in the FREE world?
Fishes should be free in the ocean. It's hard but it true. Not all beautiful things in the eye are good and really beautiful.
It is only true not hard!
I never thought this before.
Hope, now you would feel the dark side of the aquarium whenever you see any aquarium!
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Do you have an aquarium? Recently I tried to find a beautiful video with a gold fish, it turns out to be a deficit )
We are against aquarium culture.
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Good call on the "Education argument" being a non-argument. Fish in aquariums don't even do anything.
Good job bringing this to people's attention, again getting us a step closer to true integrity and true FREEDOM for humanity. As above so below.
Agree! Upvote and resteem