29 gallons, 45-55 gallons, 53 gallons, etc. so many numbers. You know why there are so many numbers? It's probably because they don't even know how much is enough. Even an empty fish tank is crowded compared to a river, a lake, the ocean, etc. If they could, they would even say at least a 1,000 gallon tank at the minimum so the fish have lots and lots of room to move around.
Just because the fish poops alot doesn't mean you shouldn't have it in there. You can perform maintenance on the tank to clean it up. The fact of the matter is that people have kept fish in small quarters for generations. I'm not talking about the morals about it, whether it's right or wrong, just about what happens really.
What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it? Bomb the companies that make small "tanks" like Betta bowls? Go into
LPS and
LFS and liberate all those fish from such cramped quarters? If these things were deemed so cruel, then they wouldn't be anymore. But, really, I'm with you on wanting more room for fish, I wouldn't like to be stuck in my small room all day long.
Maybe Beacious doesn't have the money right now to upgrade. It's not like he's got some "shark" that's going to grow over 100" so maybe cut him a break. The 10-gallon that the ABK is in is probably a lot bigger than the small tank he got it from some
LFS or
LPS.
And the movies didn't work for me. I'm not going to pay $15 just to watch some clips. I've seen them IRL and in action before. My Chemistry/Physics teacher had a full-grown ABK in his tank in class. He shared it with two really big Goldfish. I forget how big the tank was, probably a 55-gallon or so.
And can you edit your links and make them shorter? It's stretching my tables.