Asian aro in a news article- :(

[DrownedFishonFire]

TikToker makes a meal out of her husband's lucky Asian arowana pet fish to teach him a lesson

In a recent viral TikTok, an Indonesian woman can be seen cooking her husband’s expensive pet fish to protest against his laziness. A wife’s frustration: In the video posted on Oct. 8, TikTok user Mia Kurniawan (@miakurniawan01) is seen scaling and seasoning the arowana fish, which can go for as...

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As a US fishkeeper It was a gut punch to me that someone can easily do this to a fish we cannot have over here in the US. Especially an asian one.

Am I overreacting over a pet fish? If it was a pacu or even a tilipia or something I probably wouldn’t have felt so strongly about it.

 

[krichardson]

That article appeared on my FB feed earlier and I meant to .are a post here about it.You beat me to it.I found it a bit troubling that the owner of the fish wound up laughing at what his wife had done.

 

[celebrist]

Didn't see her kill it on the clip, just scale and fry

 

[HarleyK]

 

[jjohnwm]

I find it pretty stupid that this woman would cook an expensive fish like this, and disturbing that she would be so petty as to do it just to spite her husband. Him laughing about it? Not sure how to respond to that; sounds like they make a perfect couple. Being together, they save two other lucky people from being miserable.

But, the idea that it's okay to eat a pacu...or maybe a tilapia...but not this particular fish seems completely hypocritical. Why is this fish's life worth more than that of another fish? Because you can't legally have one of these? Because you can't afford one? Because it's Asian? (That one really puzzles me...}

It's a fish. People eat fish all the time. If a person who keeps fish in a tank feels that eating fish is abhorrent because of some special connection they have, it might be possible to see some weird sort of logic to that...although that would be analogous to a dog-owner refusing to eat the flesh of any mammal. My father would have laughingly referred to that as a "harmless nut-case".

For the life of me, I can't understand the thought process behind this reaction.

 

[Krismo962]

This isn't the first time this happened lol

 

[WOLF2013]

Poor arowana... frigging crazy lady

 

[celebrist]

I am wondering if it was already dead

 

[The Masked Shadow]

This isn't the first time this happened lol

True.

This is stupid. It’s just something else you need to pay for. Plus, when someone is that high of a level for fish keeping, mind your own business! He will clean the gosh darn tank out!

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

jjohnwm pacus and tilipias are food source to many across the world and so plenty vs an asian aro that is so few in relation and it being more revered and respected in some cultural circles which I intended to come across as it stinging a bit less but still a pet that still hurts. I feel the loss of my fish stock when they pass when I have had them for certain period of time. Agreed ? on everything that was stated. I would have lost it if someone ate any of my Fish out of spite.