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mia doodle

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The way Nightshade is confirmed to use they/them and Optimus apologized and moved on properly is so nice

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Before & After

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markiplier is acting his markipussy out of this show

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Recently I've heard some bad things about the show Tanked. Could you give a little insight about this?

Tanked is a show about two men (Wayde King and Brett Raymer) who build custom acrylic aquariums - which sounds super cool, except they don’t give any thought to the animals they’re putting in them. Hell they really don’t even KNOW anything about fish (They once claimed goldfish only need a bubbler.)

The show is terrible because it perpetrates extremely poor fish care to a massive audience and encourages treating fish like objects.

I’ll just hit on a few things they’re doing poorly:

1. They don’t cycle their tanks before adding fish, which as any hobbyist knows is almost always disastrous. Cycling is 100% necessary to keeping an aquarium; the Tanked crew builds the tank and immediately stocks it without taking this crucial step, which undoubtedly leads to the deaths of many of the fish as the cycle has to establish fish-in.

2. They don’t instruct the new tank owners how to care for the animals they’re being given (and honestly they don’t even know how).

3. They build tanks that are dangerous for the animals.

Ex: The drum kit tank:

Not only are most of those tank areas too small, but being pounded on is 100% disruptive and stressful to the fish, possibly deadly.

Ex #2: the skate ramp tank:

Yea. It’s a skateboard ramp.

And oh, the pinball tank! Didn’t anyone ever tell these people you don’t pound or tap on fish tanks?? Actually the pinball tank brings me to my next point…

4. They overstock their tanks horribly, and stock incompatible animals in them.

The pinball aquarium is from what I understand 150 gallons across the 3 sections (which are not connected?). The top area is 50 gallons and stocked with over 10 angelfish… way overstocked.

They’ve also stocked incompatible animals with each other - throwing Axolotls (coldwater animals that CANNOT be kept with fish) into a tropical community tank.

They’ve put 50 goldfish into 100 gallon tanks. Basically, they just throw whatever they heck they like into their tanks without thought for the animals’ individual needs.

This is what their tanks look like on the day of the show and a year later (pictures by trick-or-tortle).

Basically they’re rampantly neglectful and downright abusive to the animals they stock these tanks with, and it flies on Animal Planet because fish care isn’t a widely known subject and animal planet has really gone down the tubes when it comes to any sort of animal welfare (see the ‘eaten alive’ bullshit).

All they really need is to get an aquarist to approve tank designs and do the cycling and stocking for them and they’d have a pretty cool concept/business, but as they stand now they’re trash that use live animals as decorations.

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I laughed WAY to hard at this

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こども用ソファで猫じゃらししてたら、とんでもない瞬間が撮れてしまった。ポーズもすごいがアニメみたいな顔になってる…。

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Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

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Celestial tango

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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Red Brocade”

[Text ID: “The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s come from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then your’ll be such good friends you don’t care.”]

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