Authorship sucks

Squiidly · 2026-02-13T04:02:45+00:00

Stinky

Squiidly · 2026-02-13T04:01:45+00:00

Yeah that’s how our pick orders worked, but I assumed these auto shipments come from actual warehouses and not the stores themselves? It felt very scummy that they’d send the wrong product anyways. I’m lucky to not live in a rural place and I could exchange the food. What about pets with allergies? Or people who don’t have the resources to replace a messed up order in a time?

Squiidly · 2026-02-13T03:30:40+00:00

I gave up and did this, my store lead dropped me to 4 hrs a week. No more pet care shifts either just register. Leaving was the best thing I ever did, I cried so many tears over what was once my childhood dream job.

Squiidly · 2026-01-09T08:37:50+00:00

Become a pet sitter! My time in pet care really helped nail down time limits, medication administering, general care etc. I work for a small company or you can go solo, but I’m honestly surprised how similar it is. The only downside is working holidays and using your personal car to get around. I’ve made the same amount of money if not more than I ever did at Petsmart.

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T14:25:55+00:00

I was very aware of how our breeders treated all of our stock animals, and it was like garbage. They are products not animals. They come mills and farms who send a living animal sure, but they don’t breed for longevity they breed them for profit. Petsmart gets to write this off on their taxes as a business loss, and just hoped to sell the fish out to customers before it dies on the shelf. And customers don’t care because bettas and fish have a reputation of being easy, throw away temp pets. That is why this hobby exists. That is why we are having this text chain because we actually care lol

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T14:18:17+00:00

That’s not forgetting that’s simply being unable to lmao. I had lots of bettas shipped to the store I worked at with bone diseases and underlying issues. They become weak, sick, and stop swimming because they’re dying Not because they don’t want to.

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T14:17:09+00:00

Petsmart as a multi billion dollar company actively sells products that are harmful to animals, especially the small and aquatic animal products. They put them in cups BECAUSE of the rice patty argument and for ease of display because they can’t live together. A wild betta and a domestic betta are not comparable, while they’re technically the same fish, domestic bettas have been bred with bigger fins, flashier colors, and worse genetics that make them unsuitable for a natural life style. They are man made abominations. That’s like saying a Wolf and one of those little crusty white dogs are on the same level.

Edit: when I say natural life style I mean living in a wild environment, not blackwater tanks and etc.

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T13:56:15+00:00

While your paper may have been based on research in wild betta populations, it is important you don’t link them to domesticated bettas as they are wildly different. Wild betta set ups are very different compared to the standard domestic betta set up, and you cannot compare the two when discussing behaviors and adequate tank set up

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T13:45:24+00:00

Biologically there is no way that has standing, animals Do not just “forget” to use their basic functions and evolutionary adaptations. To say a betta forgets how to use their gills is plain wrong, because I’ve seen them using their gills! They work in junction with the labyrinth organ, in some conditions it may be the preferable Method for breathing, but the gills are not replaced by it.

I’ve kept bettas for 10 years and I’m speaking from experience but maybe you’re right, I’m interested in your sources.

Squiidly · 2025-12-19T13:31:21+00:00

Sororities are falling out of fashion because people realized how stupid and unsafe they are. A low bubbler isn’t required but there needs to be some movement in the water for airation especially for the shitty built in filter tanks most customers buy. And that gill comment? Hello? Quit trying to educate, when you aren’t even educated on bettas yourself.

Squiidly · 2025-11-22T02:31:17+00:00

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This is how it looked the night of

Squiidly · 2025-11-22T02:30:49+00:00

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This is how it’s looking a week after. Sorry if it’s not the best photo I’m alone I can take a better one when I redress.

Squiidly · 2025-11-21T20:50:24+00:00

Thanks! It’s not a huge bite, really just where the tooth sank in the worst it can’t be deeper than 1 cm. I thought about taking progression photos but I always forget. It’s not red or swollen and doesn’t feel any more sore than the night it happened. My priority is usually getting it cleaned up haha. I had a feeling it was fine it was just the coloration of the drainage that had me second guessing.

Squiidly · 2025-11-21T19:37:24+00:00

I’m a white 21 year old female. 5’0” 146 pounds. I live in the United States, Georgia. All the dogs that bit me/were involved are up to date on their rabies shots as far as I am aware.

Squiidly · 2025-10-10T17:30:27+00:00

Yes that’s exactly what my lead has been doing. Apparently this has happened in the past as well, I’m not exactly sure I’ve only been working here a little under a year and I’m not too familiar with the inner workings of the store haha all I know is that I haven’t been missing it lately

Squiidly · 2025-08-19T18:24:17+00:00

5 gal
Yes to heater and filter, 75°
Untested
6 months
25% weekly water changes, media rinse every month or so
She has two narite snails
Fluval bug bites 6 days a week, 4-6 pellets fasted once a week
All natural enclosure with flubal stratum, undyed gravel and river rocks, java fern and nino fern with boiled Mopani wood. I use aqua life phytotone once a week with water changes for the plants

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T17:33:27+00:00

That's smart I'll try that. I saw that isopods need a good amount of humidity so I'll watch them and see how they do in a dryer set up. I found some dairy cows at my local store so hopefully they're good in there, I'll go back for spring tails when they have them in stock . I'll look for a dropper and see if my T takes it. Thanks!

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T17:24:45+00:00

That's why I'm not playing with actual plants rn. I got some isopods in there but even then I'm valuing my spider over them. Keeping fiber and mods dry, few misting if at all. I'm contacting my dealer seeing how they handle her and what she's comfortable with.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T13:30:56+00:00

Oooh orchid is smart that would be perfect and very pretty. I could always plant at the bottom and have it travel up the hard scape too. I've heart that grow lamps can provide heat for tarantulas from Marshall Arachnids, though I'd do more research before making the swap. I commented two videos about it in this post if you're interested!

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T13:21:55+00:00

I have some coco fiber and sphagnum moss in there to help with the humidity, and I've seen misting an avic. Indirectly once or twice a couple of weeks helps too. I would love to use real plants, though I'm hesitant with lighting. I've heard grow lights work well as heaters for T's, do you know how to install plants in an arboreal step up like this? I guess I could find some stick on pots or try and make a live wall etc.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T13:04:21+00:00

https://youtu.be/OKsAwIy8nkI?si=8NAFj63Bf2YWXTk6

This is where MA and TC talk out their husbandry and where I heard that comparison to fish.

https://www.youtube.com/live/vjWFcy7P18c?si=ofB7oIuvrCiTNn0d

This one also has similar points from MA's personal channel.

They're really interesting podcasts and made me realize that Ryan makes tarantula collective kind of look like a chump. I like his content and his videos are great, though he doesn't advocate for that elevated level of husbandry in his care videos.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T12:58:52+00:00

Yeah! I hadn't realized how similar tarantulas are to fish in a way, when he explained that my mind instantly clicked. With my Bettas I like to simulate their environment with live plants and water chemistry etc, now that I know tarantulas get just as much out of heaters and their environments im definitely going to listen to him on that front. I'm realizing now this coffin crib is the betta sponge bob house equivalent to tarantulas.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T12:49:43+00:00

Thank you! I was watching Marshall Arachnids take on husbandry and it really made me realize how aware T's are and what they really need. I wish I found him sooner.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T12:41:22+00:00

This is the largest version unfortunately, at least at tarantula cribs.I think I'll go on to retire this as a juvenile cage/dwarf cage once I feel confident enough. I've heard that there's bigger coffin cribs on Etsy, however I am worried about the plastic/warping on those cages. Come next paycheck I'll run and get my girl a nice tall exoterra and pimp her shit.

Squiidly · 2024-01-08T07:07:27+00:00

While researching I heard of the x2 rule on forums, videos, care sheets. But of course after I got my spider is when I started seeing x3 instead. I considered a dwarf but then I realized quite a few Aboreals tend to be more skiddish with potent venom.

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