Good hopefully he pulls through and gets better, gotta be careful with what you see on the internet there's allot of people who only do stuff for views and crap; fish keeping wise alot on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt. As you stated your not that experienced with fish keeping and as others have stated we all started somewhere we all have made mistakesI did see it on the internet and i bought an actual fish tank nice 50 gallon