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Post by ploppy on May 26, 2006 15:53:53 GMT -4
Ages ago in about 2004 a plec called Leo died.I missed him so much. I couldn't belive my eyes  |
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Post by megs on May 26, 2006 16:34:38 GMT -4
Ages ago in about 2004 a plec called Leo died.I missed him so much. I couldn't belive my eyes Yes, losing pets is very hard. Unfortunately fish never last long for me. I once had a Betta, who had jumped right out of his bowl. I had just gotten home, and noticed it. I was sooo sad when I saw him laying on the sand, on the plate on which his bowl sat. As I went to scoop him up to flush him, he started flipping!! I must have found him JUST in time. I plunked him right back in his bowl and he continued to live for quite a while. Sadly though, he is no longer with me. |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on May 26, 2006 19:57:58 GMT -4
I thought some fish lasted a long time.  I had a pet fish; she flipped herself out (maybe I overfed and the water wasn't good) even though I had a plastic sheet sort of covering the tank. I found her mummified several years later behind some furniture. Fish and aquariums were too much work for me; too tricky. I wish I could get some more birds, maybe a reptile or two; a pair of rats - but not only some here die natural deaths and room opens up. |
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Post by ploppy on May 27, 2006 0:40:27 GMT -4
Ages ago in about 2004 a plec called Leo died.I missed him so much. I couldn't belive my eyes Yes, losing pets is very hard. Unfortunately fish never last long for me. I once had a Betta, who had jumped right out of his bowl. I had just gotten home, and noticed it. I was sooo sad when I saw him laying on the sand, on the plate on which his bowl sat. As I went to scoop him up to flush him, he started flipping!! I must have found him JUST in time. I plunked him right back in his bowl and he continued to live for quite a while. Sadly though, he is no longer with me. Do you know how big the bowl was or around how big it was? |
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Post by megs on May 27, 2006 5:42:40 GMT -4
It was a very small bowl. It may have held 2 litres of water, tops. But just fine for a Betta.
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Post by ploppy on May 27, 2006 11:13:01 GMT -4
Then I think it would be very happy then.  |
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Post by megs on May 28, 2006 4:01:52 GMT -4
I've read that Bettas in fact prefer small living space, because they are less stressed about guarding a smaller space. These colourful beauties (well, the males are prettier than the females, the girls are kind of dull), actually breed in mud puddles. Have you ever put a mirror in a Betta bowl and watch him fluff up? They're beautiful when their fins are all fanned out. But I guess this would probably add unecessary stress to him. Then again, it's natural for them to want to be "tough" and be on guard, so they're adapted to this type of thing. After all they are "Siamese Fighting Fish!" You can tell when your Betta is happy because he will blow bubbles and create a "bubble nest." At first I was worried about the bubbles, thinking there was something wrong with the water, but a little bit of reading and talking to pet shop people put my mind at ease! |
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