Coworker saves whole wedding of betta fish after bride and groom planned to use them as "disposable" centerpieces, coworker says: '[She] insisted on taking them all home'

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    Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.
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    That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my "rescue betta." She lived for almost five years.
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    The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!
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    GLG777 I would hate to know people like that. That is uber pretentious
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    Comfortable-Cozy-140 I swear nothing posted here is ever "mildly" infuriating, it's either completely silly or completely horrifying. Treating living things as disposable decorations falls into the latter category.
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    Deltethnia I wanted fish as the centerpieces at my wedding too, but I refused to torture live animals like that. So I made paper ones. Everyone wanted to take one home.
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    h8mecuz Would have taken my gift right back honestly
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    shy_butter I worked at a Petco and a customer came in for goldfish to use as centerpieces and we refused her business. Lots of things wrong with the company as a whole but very glad my coworkers and I flagged these things. Thank you! And your coworker is awesome!!
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    uwill1der did you coworker have to rehome them into 50+ ziplocs for the transport home?
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    Spinnerofyarn My cousin and his wife did this, though the fish were sent home with people. Gus lived for +/- 4 years in a five gallon tank which in hindsight probably wasn't big enough.
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    I felt pets being dumped on guests was pretty ride, especially since betas require their own setup and can't go in a tank with other fish. That free fish was not so free!
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    DoMBe87 I was a server at an event that had goldfish in bowls and same thing. My friend and I ran around collecting them, and mine went in my horses' water trough when I got home.
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    It was a huge tank, heated in the winter, and they kept the mosquito larvae under control. They also knew to swim up when a horse came for a drink in case they'd just eaten something tasty the fish could clean off their whiskers. Those fish lived for several years too.
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    I just don't get it. If you like fish enough to make them part of your decor, how do you not care enough to see that they're cared for after? And how do you not care that you're putting them through the stress of a tiny bowl, people harassing them, often floating candles above them? It's crazy.
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    mermaidzombiemom0314 When I worked at Petsmart I had a woman come in who wanted 20 bettas for center pieces and I denied her the sale. She was livid! Called head office and tried to get me fired.
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    lilshortyy420 I hope their marriage goes down the toilet
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    unrelatedtomato I would be taking myself, my gift, and however many Betta wine glasses me and my partner can hold, to never speak to them again
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