2 Fish.. None..

[Xenosis]

Hey, I have an Aqua one Splish Splash tank, its a 10 gallon tank.
It has a plastic lid cover, with a hang on back filter.
This is a picture of the top of it.

its got a plastic lid that covers it, but with 2 tiny 2cm gaps on each side of the hob filter. now there tiny.
This was royal in terms of betta keeping, planted tank, filter, heater.
Mind you, i dont have that gravel, or the plastic plant, I just use the tank, lid and filter.

Anyways in the past 2 days ive had 2 betta's. Im really upset, my faviourite one i had for 4 months, a rescue, he grew so much color, looked really beautiful.
2 nights ago, i came back from my girlfriends house, he was missing, i thought maybe he jumped somehow and the cat got him?

Anyway, last night, after i just brought a brand new betta, put him in, woke up at 6am, paranoid to see if he was still there, he still was, so i checked if there was no gaps, There wasnt, woke up at 11am, omg, another fish gone?!?!
I cant honestly know whats going on, im turned off of Betta keeping
that 12.95 for a fish lasted 16 hours.

Btw, I cant fidn them anywhere in my room, behind the desk, under the bed, There totally, disapeered off of the world.

 

[MaddieJ]

Sounds to me like the filter may be to blame. Sorry you have been put off. I highly doubt you've had two jump out of the tank in that time. I'd really put my money on the filter.

 

[Xenosis]

I took off the lid on the filter, and there not in there... and the filter is still flowing as strong as ever

 

[Xenosis]

MaddieJ your right, You get the $$$
I pulled apart the filter, and both of them were stuck in the tubes
is there anyway i can disinfect the filter? keep in mind its fully matured so i dont want to kill the good bacteria

 

[MaddieJ]

Get rid of the filter you have an use a sponge filter. If two got in, it's likely more will too. So sorry

 

[Declan]

Man, thats a shame! I think bettas are wonderful fish, and its sad to hear that the filter disagrees with them, hopefully, you will get your love of bettas back soon though!

D.

 

[little_mermaid]

MaddieJ your right, You get the $$$
I pulled apart the filter, and both of them were stuck in the tubes
is there anyway i can disinfect the filter? keep in mind its fully matured so i dont want to kill the good bacteria

Oh that's horrific
I am so sorry!

...erm...how'd they get stuck in the filter though? Unless the safety cap fell off of course...the one in the pic looks like mine

 

[newfishy]

if your worried about any new bettas getting stuck in the filter tube inlet...go buy a new knee high panty hose, and put the end of the filter tub down in it and secure at the top with a rubber band. no more stuck bettas.

 

[little_mermaid]

if your worried about any new bettas getting stuck in the filter tube inlet...go buy a new knee high panty hose, and put the end of the filter tub down in it and secure at the top with a rubber band. no more stuck bettas.

well dang that's a good idea!

 

[Xenosis]

Im extremley embarassed, But i honestly didn't think any fish would be curious enough or to swim up the tube, or dumb enough for that reason. so i didnt put it on

I feel so sorry for them because i loved my blue one so much, and it was all my fault!
I couldnd stay away from Betta's so i put on the safety cap, and my girlfriends stocking over the inlet so thius cant happen again.
(dont tell her i borrowed her brand new foot stockings eheh)

 

[newfishy]

bettas arent very fast swimmers, so he could have just mozyed by and got stuck.


do not feel bad, I killed the most beautifull female hm with a syphon tube by accident once.

 

[Xenosis]

i dont feel so bad now =3

 

[newfishy]

yea dont lol, she was the fish in my avatar.

 

[Xenosis]

woah! i thought that was a male. I didnt know females got so beautiful