i've seen it eat like 5 times in the past month it seems like...it NEVER eats when i give it food anymore

i've had it for like 21 months

12/20/2007 11:22:14 PM

12/20/2007 11:23:33 PM

Their life span is about 2.5 yrs... he gave it a good run. It is now flush time.

I just had to flush my dead betta. RIP Cuervo!

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 11:24 PM. Reason : f]

12/20/2007 11:24:44 PM

this will cheer you up!

12/20/2007 11:24:53 PM

had one for 2 years... sucks when they finally start givin out.. some have lived longer but i dont think it happens too often dnl. making sure the water is always clean is the biggest thing with keepin a betta. if you do that and feed em right theyll live a pretty dang good while. good luck

12/20/2007 11:27:23 PM

mine just died on Monday.

12/20/2007 11:28:08 PM

If it makes you feel any better, I thought one of mine was dying for about 6 months before he actually died.

12/20/2007 11:28:15 PM

lol who is that^^^^


and its super sad...i've been told i have the coolest looking betta ever...black and blue...i read on wiki that they can live like 4 years normally and 10 years ideally...i figured mine was gonna live til at least 5 years i kinda want to end his life now instead of waiting for him to die just so i wont actually have to see it dead...idk my friend said he thought his was gonna die when it stopped eatting as much and then like a week later his died, so everyday i wake up i feel like i'm gonna look over and see him dead

^^^ yeah he just hasnt been himself lately...i dont get it

^^ i'm sorry...how old was he/her

^well thats "kinda" encouraging

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 11:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2007 11:28:26 PM

12/20/2007 11:30:04 PM

12/20/2007 11:30:11 PM

my friend had like a 3.5 year old betta that was fucking cock diesel..thing was huge

this is gonna be like gods hamster thread...i'll bump when/if he dies

12/20/2007 11:33:43 PM

12/20/2007 11:35:05 PM

lol ok that one is steve nash...the other one kinda looks like tom googliatta(sp?) or greg ostertag or some shit...the first one looks familiar but i cant place it

12/20/2007 11:36:13 PM

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 11:36 PM. Reason : x]

12/20/2007 11:36:41 PM

haha i would think they would do more with the comb over

12/20/2007 11:45:09 PM

gonna buy some bottled water tomorrow....if it doesnt look better after that and start eating i dont know what i'm gonna do...i am getting tired of having a betta that doesnt eat and makes me wonder when/if its gonna die

12/31/2007 3:45:25 AM

give him another betta

12/31/2007 3:46:54 AM

what's the bottled water for? if you leave tap water sitting out, the chlorine evaporates

12/31/2007 3:47:11 AM

there is something else in the water that doesnt evaporate out from what i was told called chloramine

12/31/2007 3:48:20 AM

they make lile tablets for the water too. But put another one in there and watch a fight!

12/31/2007 3:49:38 AM

je ne sais pas

12/31/2007 3:50:57 AM

So is he doing anything at all? Will he swim around if you disturb him?

12/31/2007 4:23:34 AM

pretty sure...sometimes he like goes sideways like he is drunk or something

12/31/2007 4:24:06 AM

^^yep...literally havent seen him eat in at least double digit days

12/31/2007 4:25:03 AM

you sure that's bottled water you're putting in there?

12/31/2007 4:25:07 AM

nah usually use tap and 10 drips of some shit that gets out chlorine and chloramine ...called "start right"

[Edited on December 31, 2007 at 4:26 AM. Reason : i'm buying bottled water in like 5 hours]

12/31/2007 4:25:55 AM

how big is the tank?

Usually those drops are supposed to be 1 for every 5 or 10 gallons.

12/31/2007 4:27:44 AM

10 drops per gallon..it does say gold fish but my friend used it for his betta

12/31/2007 4:29:20 AM

oh OK.. well I don't know what to tell you man. I think it's def. going to be flush time soon. My betta stopped eating for like 2 weeks and that was it.

12/31/2007 4:40:40 AM

get a frog next

12/31/2007 12:13:31 PM

Try feeding him real food if you're not already. I had one that would not eat "betta food" I had bought which was made of dried bloodworms. Anyway, he went for almost a full month without eating and I just figured he was going to die. Then one day when I had been to Red Lobster I had this take home plate with some skrimps on it. I broke him off a piece of skrimp and dropped it in the water. He ignored it at first as he did everything else I put in there, but when the aroma made it's way to his nose he went ballistic. He had that skrimp pinned to the bottom of the tank and he was tearing it up. From that point on he just ate whatever I ate. If I ate hamburger, he at hamburger. If I ate steak, he ate steak.

12/31/2007 12:27:40 PM

^lol

I kind of want a turtle.

12/31/2007 12:57:37 PM

fuck i forgot to get water AGAIN...shit is like 65 cents

12/31/2007 12:59:10 PM

just to be sure, drinking water is the one thats ok for betta fish right?...i didnt know if it was that or distilled but i think i heard distilled fucks up something they need

12/31/2007 9:04:55 PM

poor fishy

12/31/2007 9:32:42 PM

atleast he is doing better than your garden?

12/31/2007 9:40:20 PM

woah

its still alive

i just fed it a piece of food and it ate it, dropped in 2 more bout 30 seconds later and it doesnt seem to interested

1/1/2008 7:55:02 AM

don't feed it too much food. Un-eaten food will foul up the water and kill the fish.

1/1/2008 8:21:51 AM

oh it all the time is swimming in a bunch of junk...i threw away the rocks today cause they stunk so bad

1/1/2008 8:36:11 AM

This is Rex, it was very sad when he died My boyfriend tried to be all sneaky about flushing him down the toilet so I would not see it happen

1/1/2008 9:42:41 AM

i wouldnt mind getting one of those lilly things so i wouldnt have to feed it and it could just eat the roots...i dont think i could keep the lilly alive...i think they need a lot of light...i think your betta looks pretty cool



bigger pic

[Edited on January 1, 2008 at 9:48 AM. Reason : .]

1/1/2008 9:47:44 AM

I don't think you're supposed to make them eat just the Lily roots. I think they do that as a last resort so they don't die. It's kind of like when starving people eat grass and bark off trees. It would suck.

1/1/2008 2:24:36 PM

^True.

And distilled water will kill fish.

1/1/2008 3:29:25 PM

yeah i knew not to get that kind...was sure spring had too much of something...was that or drinking water...figured drinking water was nacl free nia

1/1/2008 4:21:33 PM

I think betta is not supposed to eat roots and plants.

1/1/2008 6:00:00 PM

he has been doing very well lately

[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2008 9:16:08 PM

should've waited for release candidate fish?

2/28/2008 9:18:22 PM

dakota no offense but i'm too dumb to understand that =/

2/28/2008 9:18:56 PM

betta = beta = lol?

2/28/2008 9:19:42 PM

setemup

2/28/2008 9:20:36 PM