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Post by siobhan on Sept 21, 2014 23:49:48 GMT -5
I make regular trips to Petsmart, of course, because with all these varied critters that's the only place I can get everything. I always see the poor goldfish, crammed into a tank with no gravel or decorations, and I got one. It only lived a couple of days. I fixed up a bigger tank and got two more. One only lived a couple of days, but the other one seemed really lively, so I went and got him an aquarium and he seemed so happy and healthy I thought I'd just had bad luck with the other two. Then he died today. I've decided they must have some disease among their fish and none of them are going to live very long. I'm going to clean the tank and change the water and put a heater in it and go get a betta. My two bettas are both healthy and I can't have an unoccupied tank.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Sept 22, 2014 0:51:58 GMT -5
And MFS strikes again!
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Post by siobhan on Sept 22, 2014 13:31:35 GMT -5
Well, you know. LOL After I went and got the tank for the goldfish and fixed it all up nice and then he died, I had to do something. The new betta is called Floyd and he has a mystery snail for company. I have all those ramshorns, but I like mystery snails, too, and they don't do well in a tank with ramshorns. So this was also an excuse to get another mystery snail.
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Post by msdani1981 on Sept 29, 2014 14:37:21 GMT -5
Most of the comets are sick when they get to the stores. They're "throwaway" fish, meant to be fed to other animals. Some can do well, but most don't live very long. The ones that do survive grow to about 3 feet long (they live a long time if they're healthy).  They're related to Koi. |
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Post by siobhan on Sept 30, 2014 13:40:30 GMT -5
The new betta was apparently sick, too. He never acted normally and died a few days after I got him. So I got another one, from a different store, did a 50 percent water change and put the new one in the tank, and he's doing fine. He comes to the surface for food, comes to the glass to chat, annoys the mystery snail (enough that I'm considering separate quarters for the poor snail) and appears to be quite happy and healthy.
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Post by msdani1981 on Sept 30, 2014 19:14:16 GMT -5
Oh, that's good news! Glad this one is doing well. |
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Post by siobhan on Oct 2, 2014 12:27:48 GMT -5
I was just noticing last night how much bigger the other two bettas are, and thinking that they probably were about Hal's size when I brought them home and they grew thanks to the large tanks they're in and twice-daily meals. On a fish forum I'm on, several people have the idea they should "fast" their bettas once or twice a week. I do not do that. They get their pellets morning and evening every day. My lizard gets food every day, too, even if he doesn't want to eat every day. Lizard folk think you should only feed a reptile twice or three times a week. Rex doesn't want to eat every day, but he has the opportunity. If HE chooses to ignore his food, that's fine. So if Hal continues to thrive, I expect him to grow significantly, too. His tank isn't as big as Opie's and Otis' tanks, but he doesn't have to share with a million ramshorn snails, either. When I fed Otis this morning, I noticed an egg pod on the wall of his tank, so we're going to have another blessed event any day and a dozen more miniature snails will be oozing around in there. I suspect Otis eats some of the tiny ones or we'd be overrun.
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They're related to Koi.