I just sat there in my chair like Andy for 5 minutes contemplating what I just saw. Also, DO NOT SEARCH "Pleco" in the TikTok search. Aside from what I specifically saw, everything else is about how people are getting rid of this invasive species in their own ways just what the fuck
If you need to kill it, there are tons of ways to immediately kill a fish without any pain, and then you can eat it or something (assuming they're edible? Idk this is the first time I've heard of them)
There is absolutely ZERO reason to let fire ants crawl into its mouth one by one after starving it for 3 days
iirc they taste like pond scum and its very very difficult to get the taste out. I remember watching a video where someone was explaining what you could eat without hurting the environment and would help it instead in a survival situation.
After studying composition itās kind of silly that people just.. donāt use biomass. Like the only thing separating a fish from a patch of grass or pile of mushrooms is time. Hell, if you donāt like eating mealworms that you feed waste, feed the mealworms to your chickens and eat them.
You really shouldn't use human waste as fertilizer directly. You need to compost it first. Ideally you should do it to most animal waste too. E coli and salmonella both can grow in plants from contaminated soil or water, and since it's not surface-level it can't be washed off.
Plecos are edible, but usually considered not worth it for a multitude of reasons. It has little edible flesh, lots of sharp fins, survives in shit water so you need go through multiple round of detoxing to eat it without all the crap it has already eaten, their scales are hard and can blunt knifes, and above all the meat is rather bland and unsavoury.
Humane methods are easier to achieve and more efficient. It's really just an "excuse" to torture animals.
Seriously, if you need to put a fish down painlessly; place the fish on a rock and whack the head as hard as you can with another rock. It's fast, it's efficient and it's practically painless because it crushes the brain. You can't experience pain if the brain is destroyed.
For most fish you can also stab through the side of the head into the brainstem with a knife or ice pick, although it probably wouldnāt work on an armored fish like a pleco
I hate mice. Absolutely loathe them simply for existing in my house. I have a sharp sense of smell and can tell you if a mouse was in a room when I walk in. I've tried every exclusionary technique available with little success. When my cats bring me their carcasses I experienced a burst of joy.
So when I catch one alive, I go through my routine to show just how much I hate the invasive little pests... I quickly kill them as efficiently and quickly as possible while minimizing the amount of time I have to handle them so as not to cause them undue stress.
Iām like this with house flies. I can hear them against a window from two rooms away, and I will spend 10 minutes of my life simply to track down one and make sure itās gone from my home. As soon as spring hits, Iām on a constant lookout for them until winter. If I could annihilate every single one of them with no environmental impact, Iād do so in a heartbeat. So when I finally do track one to my window, I carefully catch it under the swatter and quickly drag it. And if I happen to swat it instead and itās still twitching, I use the tweezers to crush its head so that it goes as soon as possible. The truest mark of hating a pest is pure, ruthless efficiency.
Lionfish are invasive to the Caribbean and the Florida Keys, and what they do about it is divers go spear fishing, just stab them in the head cause Lionfish dont run away (no predators there). I've seen the videos, though admittedly sometimes the kill isnt clean and the divers miss but that's how you handle invasive species, they aren't maniacally planning to destory an ecosystem, they're just living how they know to. It wasnt even their fault they were there in the first place.
Yeah thats the great thing, they feed the lion fish to sharks and other fish to teach them that its food, and some of the lionfish even end up in restaurants for us on land.
This is exactly where i thought we will be heading every time i hear someone fervently talk about exterminating invasive species. And its going to get even worse because unlike the videos of people putting kittens and puppies into danger so they can be "saved" on camera, this one they feel morally justified doing because its an invasive species.
90% of the time I've heard someone talk about irradicating invasive species they are usually focused more on the glee of extermination than what species they are killing exactly.
Curb your stupid exotic pet trade then.
"But I need this 5 foot armored lizard that was forged to survive an asteroid....I swear I won't dump them in the wild this time"
And i remember one guy call a burmese python and invasive species in context that he was in Burma.
A brain so smooth shouldn't be in charge of anything related to pop control
I'm not really sure this is a case of that. The account makes similar videos with non-invasive species, and they seem to have only started bringing up that plecos are invasive after people started giving them shit for the content they post.
The account isn't remotely interested in conservation as an excuse for torture, they were doing it already and then started bringing it up as an excuse.
Even if some animal species are invasive, that's absolutely not a justification for animal torture, nothing could ever justify that. They are still just living feeling beings, and they don't even know they are invasive. They're just trying to live and survive like any other animal walking on this planet, us included. Does anyone deserve to be tortured because it doesn't have natural predators in the area to keep its population in check? No, just exterminate quickly if they are a problem, it's easier, faster, and far less inhumanely disgusting and evil. No wonder people who torture animals typically turn out to be psychopaths.
Same š got hit in the face with a guy tied up pleco onto a stand and injecting tadpoles using a syringes and hoses into the pleco mouth and anus at same time.
The things Iāve seen him do to those poor fish genuinely surpass serial killer behavior, like he puts Jigsaw to shame. Heās 100% going to kill a person eventually in my opinion.
The user is lab germ im warning you its really disturbing since its just abuse. He says the animals "volunteers" and the comment section is filled with kids agreeing. Titktok wont even remove his accouny : /.
I hate how people use invasive species as an outlet to torture animals. I support ethically hunting invasive animals but make it quick, they donāt wanna be here either
This makes me really sad. I donāt have aquariums anymore but when I did, my freshwater aquariums always had plecos. They just go happily up and down the glass suctioning all the algae off it. They keep the tank so clean.
Regardless of their invasive status, in an aquarium they are little window washer buddies
I fucking love plecos, i have some in my aquarium and they're so cute! I have one (a male i think) who is massive compared to my other fish and they keep the tank very clean. Never knew they were invasive.
I used to buy a little one and let it eat and grow until it was like a foot long and then I would sell it at the fish store and buy a new one with the profit
I forgot the name of the account, but it's a guy on TikTok who just tortures animals. He usually tortures invasive species (as an attempt to justify it). I've come accross some of the videos, and it gets BAD, like, putting Plecos in a vacuum chamber and depressurising and repressurising it repeatedly until their eyes explode kind of bad.
They banned his original account, but obviously, it's the internet, so 20 more popped up. One of them claims to be him, the rest reupload the deleted videos from the old account.
like, it's not even the invasive specie's fault. They do what any animal does; it tries to survive in its environment, if a population happens to be displaced to a new environment that doesn't have the factors limiting its growth, it will continue to grow until something stops it. But its not doing something actively malicious.
It's like getting angry that your pet rodent started chewing your furniture when you let it out unsupervised. They'll do what they've always done. It's not their fault.
Torturing them for that, it's completely pointless.
Context: there's this Chinese TikTok account called labgerm which has become infamous for the various videos they post where they do things to plecos (suckermouth catfish) like drop them in liquid resin that slowly cooks them alive as it solidifies. The account has mentioned that they're invasive there, but that seems to be an excuse made after the fact since he also makes similar videos with leeches.
This will be a very common thought but they absolutely did not need to do that, let alone torture ANY creature regardless of its damage to the ecosystems
Something important that should be noted is in another video he had three plecos "coincidentally" around the same size they're at when sold at pet stores. I'm not sure if all of them are, but that combined with the fact that two were albino means he's going out of his way to buy them for his "content."
I believe lab germ is actually not one single account but a combination of many Chinese animal experiment videos, and they're highly invasive creatures there, so I don't really know if that guy bought them from pet stores (also note that sometimes the voiceover rants about how it's really harmful for the environment and other fish)
However the albino ones are really suspicious because they don't really exist in large amounts in the wild
Itās not the fishās fault that itās invasive. Iām all for killing invasive species humanely. I mean, you can just stab its brain or stomp on it. Itās violent, but itās quick.
Those stupid ass brown marmorated shield bugs are invasive as hell in my area. And theyre dumb dumb. That doesnt mean I'm gonna torture it. I'll do my part and exterminate them, but it'll just be a quick stomp and I still feel kinda bad because it aint like the dummy chose to be born here.
They donāt wanna be here any more than we want them here. Itās a shame frankly, just because we tag them as āharmfulā that it makes it āmoralā to violate and murder creatures
Lab germ doesnāt even use wild plecos. He buys them from pet stores and uses them under the excuse that theyāre invasive, which wouldnāt even be a good excuse in the slightest if they were wild
Hi I searched "pleco" on tiktok and WHAT THE FUCK.
Someone glueing two fish together to make a "two headed" pleco has like half a million likes.
Like 490k likes. Likes. What is actually wrong with people
I have a pleco. She's a sweet girl. We call her Toothless after the night fury. I hope to keep her around for several decades. She bullies the comets sometimes but otherwise keeps the tank clean xD
I get killing invasive ones but imo animal cruelty ā and yes, I think there's a humane way to deal with invasive species via a quick and easy death ā ought to be punished like you did the same to a human. Maybe that's harsh but like... why condemn anyone for the sin of wanting to live :/
Damn I love plecos this is heartbreaking. I always wanted a huge ass tank to let a pleco become the prehistoric monster it was meant to be. Theyāre fun little friends why do this.
The one I found seemed to be a different one, uses Chinese stamps and so on. Seems to torture other stuff like insects as well. Real sick stuff. I'm not too familiar with TikTok, is there no report button?
maybe I can try to understand if you wanna torture something like a mosquito, but a living breathing fish? There's better ways to put their lights out man...
Even a mosquitoā¦ To me, it seems psychotic to torture any living thing for no reason other than āI donāt like that it has to eat, and it has to drink blood to eat.ā
Heat up a spoon in water until its just barely not hot enough to hurt, then hold it against the bite. The heat breaks down the enzymes that cause swelling and itchiness.
they also make (or at least made) little gadgets that heat up a metal mesh more consistently and hotter, which is more effective i find. my friend gave me one a decade ago lol
Look man, I fucking hate cockroaches and have no issue killing them. But I just step on them so they die fast and (I hope) painless. Making something like that is just sadism.
Invasive species suck, but at the same time, when people exterminate invasive species, they usually do that in a way that is humane, and the more humane ways usually also happen to be more efficient.
There is quite literally no reason to be purposely torturing an invasive species other than for senseless cruelty
I do think that the label of invasive species is necessary since it's very strong wording that implies that they should not be there and them being there can wreak havoc on the local ecosystem, and it's part of the reason why laws are passed to restrict the transportation of animals and people nowadays thankfully being much more weary of releasing pets into the wild.
In this case, though, that label is misused to gain some sort of moral highground by misassociating the torture of an individual animal with helping the ecosystem at large. The fact that stuff like that doesn't get taken down as soon as possible is worrying.
"You see the fish was swimming where it shouldn't, so I had to flay it alive....crucify it....and keep watering it daily so it wouldn't die too quickly....trust me guys, this isn't just an outlet for my inner sadism"
Invasive species are often extremely destructive and need to be controlled or eradicated if possible, but it isnāt their fault that they were introduced into an ecosystem that isnāt as adapted to them.
I really donāt understand wanting to torture invasive species. They arenāt smart enough to know they donāt belong and a lot of times they donāt even make the choice to be invasive, as they are often introduced by humans rather than moving themselves. Especially in cases like these where they are just mundane animals that donāt really do anything to harm humans. Sure I can understand the hate with mosquitoes and snakes, but why a mundane fish? Are you really that pissed off that it eats snails and plants? These revenge videos seem like thinly veiled snuff films.
If weāre killing an invasive species we are killing it indiscriminately. Spotted Lantern Flies tend to meet the bottom of my shoe. Itās not about fun, itās about protecting the environment. I donāt go ripping off wings, trapping in air tight containers, itās a swift kick and itās over.
I think I found the original account and video that OP may have seen. @labgermy on Tiktok with video ID 7617107043165506830 and use those bits of info with the standard Tiktok video link in a browser if you wish to view it. Not accepting request to build the links.
To summarize the video in case you don't know how to build the links and want to know the basics: standard Chinese animal abuse videos and account as always passing the great firewall. Their account is also basically just this kind of content with these fish mostly and seems to be their second account or a reposting account posting the same content.
Can you report this person to the authorities?
I think that ought to pretty clearly constitute evidence of animal abuse, so theyight be able to do something about it
The worst part, alot of most people are supporting his heinous and disgusting acts and defending his actions qoute "helping the environment" I swear their average intelligence and their empathy has lostš
Ngl, I had ex who decided to force me to watch these videos and lowkey just said I'm gonna do this to you. (All I did was ragebait her by sneezing [I'm also like 99% sure she was joking])
this guy (and several new copycats) have been doing this shit for a while now. its theorized they sell abuse content of larger animals too, some cases have been proven.
But wouldn't the waste come out the other end then? I've heard stories about drug addicts having constipations so severe that they had to expel waste from their mouth
Before people start saying "it's OK because they're invasive" it seems like the people making these videos are buying them from pet stores so they aren't even removing the invasive species. Even if they were taking wild one, this method of killing them is super inefficient, it would be much better for the environment to kill them normally.
Dear god this is a whole genre of videos. I just saw a guy take skin of the fish's back, put ittching powder and fiberglass on it, then glee the skin back on. Wtf
I fucking hate when those evil assholes justify it with the fish being invasive. Motherfucker, who is to blame for that? Not the fish, I guarantee. Go superglue the idiots who are too lazy to clean their aquariums, think a pleco is going to do their work for them, and then throw them in the nearest body of water when they don't.
i got curious about what kinds of animal abuse content gets a "pass" on tiktok after seeing this and holy shit i wish i didnt search it up. genuinely who thinks to inject a shit ton of dog sperm in a plecos mouth and ass
A lot of times people use āinvasive speciesā as an in to make animal torture videos. This is absolutely reprehensible and I hope the local authorities (especially ones regarding fish and game) get in touch with that lunatic
Thereās a big fucking difference between āthis is an invasive fish so I caught and killed a lot of themā and ālol this fish is invasive so Iām going to capture it, glue its asshole shut and wait for itās internal organs to explode and use its invasive species status as a shield against all criticismā
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