iPond: Cool or Cruel?

The iPond is an iPod accessory the combines a speaker with a tiny aquarium! A single fish lives in about 650 millilitres of water. It’s all the rage in Australia, but some consider it animal cruelty.
RSPCA spokesman Hugh Wirth said despite the fighting fish's ability to breathe air from the surface, the tank was far too small for it to receive adequate oxygen. The small volume of water would lead to rapid temperature change and this meant the tropical fish would not live long, he said. The iPond should be banned, Dr Wirth said.

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(photo: Rebecca Hallas)

that's really pathetic. and cruel.

One would hope that the world would've moved beyond this stupid 19th-century attitude towards nature.
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Like the goldfish in the heel of the disco boot, this is just monstrous. If it is actually on sale anywhere in the world, I hope that potential buyers are immediately arrested for animal cruelty.
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see now, when you say 'It’s all the rage in Australia' ive yet to see one, or know anyone whose seen one. so yes it is fucked up, but apart from it being covered in the news....whose got one?
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Well here I am in the same town as Hugh and I haven't seen it. I just gave away my two 3" goldfish to someone who had a bigger tank because I thought they were too big for the tank.

I have to buy some small replacements. If I see anything, I will report it here first.
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well it is real, the link goes to a video in the news, but that is incredibly cruel, of course i hate any animal marketing, they sell you the speakers with the fish... come on, its not a toy, its alive...
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Most of the betta bowls you'd purchase elsewhere hold roughly the same volume of water.

Why the outrage at this speaker, when bettas have been living in small containers for decades?
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I used to work in a tropical fish shop. From what I've seen, bettas can survive in small containers (you should see the tiny bags they're shipped in), but they live longer if they have a roomier tank. The Ipond is too small. People who want fish novelty items should stick to Big Mouth Billy Bass.
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This stinks of fakeness.
1. There's only one picture of this thing on the entire internet. If it was as popular as the article says (there are many articles, and they all say the same thing) I'm sure someone would have posted a picture of their fish.
2. Fish are not portable. It defeats the entire purpose of the product.
3. No article about this product lists any sort of company that created it, nor is there an official website.
4. The picture looks pretty dern 'shopped.
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well i was watching a video on it yesterday, and looked around today for it, and it was gone
so i searched around and finally, after alot i found a different video

http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/ScienceTechnologyVideo/tabid/311/articleID/41876/cat/41/Default.aspx

so yes folks, it was real but it was taked off the shelves this morning because of so many complaints about the product, plus on the last video i watched they had said this was not make by apple but a separate company just made it for the ipod
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OK, I'm glad if it's fake or if it was real and taken off the shelves. If it had been made by Apple, it would have been researched better and never released.
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I've seen it here, gizmodo, and on the news on tv. All three have had the same picture. ... I watched the video and it doesn't look half as bad now. I mean, lame, but not as cruel as the picture looks.
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All i can say is im ashamed to call myself a human being, this is a sick world we live in!!!! Soon you’ll be able to buy the new iCage , where you buy a human in a clear box just big enough for him to sit in , its a coffee table , they will have no food or water and we’ll see how long he lives for, that sounds like a good idea doesn’t it.
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I hate to say this, but it's NOT fake... :( What kind if person would come up with this AND THEN SELL IT??? It's the worst thing I've have seen done to fish MEANT TO BE PETS...... (besides that goldfish in the boot heel thing)Don't say, "I have one and it survived!" Because, technically, I could lock you up in a clear box for the rest of your life and you'd SURVIVE..... but would you enjoy that at all????? I'm sorry to those poor fish.... the sellers and buyers should be arrested for animal cruelty!
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