If the lease says no pets then you totally deserve it.

wtf? how is that a lease violation?

YDI. Rules are rules, and you signed the contract. It wouldn't have been so hard to ask the landlord for an exception ahead of time.

@boredumm - they just sit there because the so called "tanks" a vast majority are kept in, are so small they have no space to swim, they are very often bare with no planting and have no filtration. The fish not only has no space, it has nowhere to hide or establish territory, and the water quality is so poor that it effectively feels ill most of the time, due to the buildup of ammonia ( from it's own piss) in the water. The fish has to breathe in it's own waste, live in it, eat in it. If you were kept in a very small cell , where you couldn't move more than a few steps in any direction, with no ventilation, surrounded by your own filth and breathing in the fumes from it - Would YOU want to move around much? No, you'd just sit there being extremely ill and unhappy. @Krez - Yes they are found in drainage ditches and puddles , when they get flushed in there during rainfall. When the puddles and ditches start to dry out ( which is frequent in the hot country they live in ) the fish are TRAPPED in the small bodies of water, and unless they are lucky enough to be close to another area of water they can flipflop over to ( they can do this for a short distance ) they die in those dried up puddles. They do not breed in the dry season, they do not breed or show their best colours in these shrinking puddles. They are at their best in the wet season, when the rice paddy irrigation chanels are knee deep, and the small slow moving streams and tributeries have more water in them. They live in *shallow* water. But there is *thousands upon thousands of gallons of it* . Their ability to survive in small bodies of water has been horrifically exploited. People treat these fish as nothing more than a pretty table ornment or a small bauble to amuse children. Fishkeeping requires far more work than most people are willing to believe. You can't just get a small bowl of water, chuck a fish in it and think you're giving it a great life just because your bowl is bigger than a walmart cup. You are no better than walmart, the bowl is not remotely good enough and absolutely cannot povide a single one of the requirements to give these fish a decent life and to allow them to display natural behaviour.

obviously THIER life sucks so in turn you have to suffer with a fine. Not fair.

that's absolutely disgusting

Doesn't matter what the pet is, it's still a violation. Should have gotten permission before you said the rules be damned

You must live somewhere owned by Hendersen-Webb!

Of course, they can't legally refuse all dogs, actually. They'd have to allowed service pets.

It does seem rather picky, but you still deserved it. "No pets" means "no pets", not "no pets but the ones that you think shouldn't qualify".

A fish does NOT count as a pet!! The place I live is super picky and doesn't allow any pets either, but they don't care about fish. Good God.... your landlord sucks!

you totally deserve it! you got the fine for animal cruelty. this is what I hate about pet owners. you need to research the conditions your pet needs to live in before you buy the poor animal. so if u are still clueless then I'll tell u that the bettas can't live in just a fish bowl. they need a 5 gallon tank at least.