Wednesday night at the fights

I have a divided 10 with three male VTs. At some point last night it became undivided So this morning, I have three ripped up boys They are all eating and swimming, and flaring at each other. But they look pretty shabby


edit- Moral of the story, do regular checks on your dividers if you have this type of tank set up

Pfftt! What a buncha brats. You know they were all like, "look mom! Look what I did! And I'm WAAAYY stronger then him, look what I did to him. Do you think I'm the best? *Flare flare*"

Hope everybody gets better.

Sorell - Same thing happened to me last night too!! One of my boys must of jumped the divider as I couldn't find any holes where he could of slid through. The jumper ended up getting a nice chunk of fin ripped off The boy who I thought was weaker because he flared a lot less actually did the damage to the other guy and came out untouched. The victorious betta has been so active since the "fight" flaring like crazy. I think he knows he's top dog now

They are so proud of themselves Bubblenests from here to there in every section

My bettas don't build bubble nests...I can't figure out why. I hope they arn't unhappy

hehe those sneaky guys! hope they recover well.
ive had that happen to me before as well- in my girls tank during feeding time. Luckly i could quickly scoup CP (Crazy Pants) out. Althouhg now everytime i feed them CP trys to leap the divider and she ends up sticking herself to the divider then flopping back into the water.

OMG i hope they will be better soon!!! i guess i should check my dividers when i set up the tank!!!

I had that happen a couple of months ago. I had the two boys in a 12g divided tank and was working at the computer when something made me look at the tank. WHOOPS! sparky had got through the divider and was going at spike! I threw (figuratively speaking) him back onto his side but I couldn't figure out how he got out. He got out 3x over two days, with me happening to be there just in time to throw him back every time, and completely flumoxed as to how he was doing it. (not to mention stressed and having nightmares about what was happening in the tank when I finally had to go to bed.)

Because the plastic side holder (thingy) of the divider wasn't long enough to reach from the top of the tank to the bottom of the divider I had buried the bottom of the divider in the gravel. I kept my eye on the tank hoping to catch him in the act and I finally did! I had been concentrating on making the *top* of the tank secure, figuring that he was jumping over. Nope!
I had cleaned the tank the day before and hadn't noticed that the gravel had been disturbed so that it left a tiny (and I do mean tiny!) space between the top of the gravel and the side piece. sparky had found the hole though, and it was just big enough for him to squeeze through. What a wretch!
I stuffed a silk plant in the hole to fill it but he kept going back and trying to find a way through. you could just see him thinking, "I got through here before, there must be a way..."

(sorry about the long post!)

I do have pictures Itty These first three are the morning I found them, and aren't super quality. I'll post these and then run out and get some current ones, as they have changed.

Jojo, you can see he is a little ragged and split his tail

Nova, same as Jojo, just a little scraggly

The worst of the bunch He has since lost almost all of his tail, which I shall show you in a minute

My sweet Oliver

These pictures are all so bad, for some reason the lights in their tank won't turn on I couldn't get anything on Nova and Jojo, but here's Ollie's tail today

Here's what he used to look like, excuse the algae, this is from before I moved their tank and they sat right in the light all day


Look at that finnage

Ollie got whooped!

His tail looks much better already.