my new pet...

01WhiteNe0n · Post by **01WhiteNe0n** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:54 pm

Tnk doesnt like masta batters

01rtgurl · Post by **01rtgurl** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:52 pm

MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Mastabetta?

Great color fish, fabricate a clear plastic center console and seal it up with water and put a bunch of those mugs in there.

Weird.. I was just talking to my sister about this. Joking of course.

Is your fish dead? It looks dead TNK. It's floating upside down!

EDIT: I TOTALLY MISSED THAT HE DIED. NOW I FEEL BAD. IM SORRY

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:48 pm

got done with with mastabetta and it went limp...

couldn't pass that up.

Sorry TNK,

Are you getting another one?

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:41 am

he was alive in that pic. but yeah, hes dead. and yeah im gonna get another one

zerocoolok · Post by **zerocoolok** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:16 am

Did you condition the water correctly when you put it in the tank? You really need to do that and put the bag that you got from Wally world (tied up, fish inside) on top of the water in the tank to equalize the temperatures so the fish doesn't die from shock. I liberated a beta years ago from Wal-Mart (becuse half in the display were already dead, and they just left them there...) and it lived over a year until i moved out and my mom flushed it lol. You have to read the directions on the water conditioning stuff (its like a little packet). It basically balances the ph of the water and gets rid of the chlorine in the tap water you put in.

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:05 am

I have a 75 gallon South American tank, need any advice, gimme a holla... I use to breed fishes as well: angelfish, african cichlids, and a score of other live breeders as well.

I have since changed it around - this was when I first moved over a year ago.... now it has no fake plants in it

I just needed filler at the time!

eastwoodsn352 · Post by **eastwoodsn352** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:26 pm

get a 55 gallon tank and buy an oscar...when i get back to jacksonville ill take some pictures of mine...my friend up there is babysitting them while im back home for the summer.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:17 pm

1. fish was from petsmart, nto walmart
2. the water was the correct temperature
3. the water was conditioned

my mistake was leaving the plants in teh little plastic container. teh instructions never said to take them out, next time i will.

psi chick · Post by **psi chick** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:52 pm

^^^^^

1. it doesn't really matter. both treat their fish horribly.

2. no it wasn't. you had the betta in a bowl. that means no filter and no heater. contrary to what they tell you at the pet stores, bettas are a tropical fish and prefer water temps in the 70s to low 80's, and work perfectly well in a full size tank. they do not like small tanks like they lead you to believe.

3. good to hear. if you don't have water conditioner, just leave it out over night. also don't use the pH adjuster crap, it doesn't work long term. just get some amquel or something like that and it will be fine.

i honestly doubt that the plant is what killed him. the gel that the plants come in is a non-toxic gel so it didn't polute the water. you had mentioned something about it getting stuck in the gel, not sure how that would happen since bettas are not a species that digs, nor are they plant eaters so he wouldn't have been going after the roots or anything. you probably just got a sick fish, it happens all the time.

sorry to be so blunt about it, but i have spent a lot of time housing and breeding fish, bettas being one of them. nothing drives me more nuts than hearing some of the crap that comes out of the mouths of pet store employees about their care.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:06 am

psi chick wrote:^^^^^

1. it doesn't really matter. both treat their fish horribly.

2. no it wasn't. you had the betta in a bowl. that means no filter and no heater. contrary to what they tell you at the pet stores, bettas are a tropical fish and prefer water temps in the 70s to low 80's, and work perfectly well in a full size tank. they do not like small tanks like they lead you to believe.

3. good to hear. if you don't have water conditioner, just leave it out over night. also don't use the pH adjuster crap, it doesn't work long term. just get some amquel or something like that and it will be fine.

i honestly doubt that the plant is what killed him. the gel that the plants come in is a non-toxic gel so it didn't polute the water. you had mentioned something about it getting stuck in the gel, not sure how that would happen since bettas are not a species that digs, nor are they plant eaters so he wouldn't have been going after the roots or anything. you probably just got a sick fish, it happens all the time.

sorry to be so blunt about it, but i have spent a lot of time housing and breeding fish, bettas being one of them. nothing drives me more nuts than hearing some of the crap that comes out of the mouths of pet store employees about their care.

he wasnt stuck in teh gel, he was stuck in the plastci container, he swam into it.

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:11 am

Does anyone know that it is pronounced Bet-ta, like in better, not bay-tuh, like in beta? Just curious

Bella Lugrossi · Post by **Bella Lugrossi** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:14 am

beta. bay-tuh.

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:52 am

fish are great, i love keeping fish as pets, currently rocking three tanks, and piranha's, Going on year three now, going quite well with them! ill make a post and show em off, if anyone wants to see em.. decided if i was gonna get a boring pet, id get the least boring type, and these guys are definatly fun to feed lol. got some videos as well if anyone wants to see

KrackstaR · Post by **KrackstaR** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:56 am

i heard something about the tempatures in the room could afffect the fish as well so if your house has the ac on full blast then it might be too cold for the fish.

sxt4 · Post by **sxt4** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:32 pm

did you flush it?

psi chick · Post by **psi chick** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:25 am

kc2002acr wrote:Does anyone know that it is pronounced Bet-ta, like in better, not bay-tuh, like in beta? Just curious

yes you are correct, most people mispronounce the name.

Bella Lugrossi wrote:beta. bay-tuh.

see above.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:19 pm

sxt4 wrote:did you flush it?

yup. the corpse was starting to stink up my bedroom.