Liberty802
Fish Fanatic
So I went into a local lfs today, they're not the greatest but they do have some awsome sales and I needed to pick up a new water bottle holder for my hamster. Well they were having a sale on 1 gallon critter keepers ($5 each) so I naturally picked up a few for any new bettas I may aquire. Well then I went over to check out the bettas and OMG they were all in horrible condition. Filthy, tiny cups, about 2 inches of water, they literally could not move. So I raised hell!! lol, I flew off the handle at the guy working, I think he was afraid I was going to hit him, lol. I demanded that he give every betta (there were about 20 something) clean water and a full cup while I watched him. He kind of looked at me funny, like a was a crazy person, but he did what I asked, lol. Well once the bettas were in water where I could actually see them, I noticed that besides being stressed most of them appeared healthy. Then I saw a little pink boy who looked extremely underweight, and was swimming vertically, head up. So naturally I decided he would make a nice first addition to the brand new tanks I had just aquired. Well I was about to leave the store when I looked over at the "supply table" where they bag the fish and I saw a betta cup kind of hidden in the back so out of curiousity I pulled it forward and saw a betta, laying on his side in no more than an inch of dirty brown water. He was panting super hard and didn't even seem to have the strength to get air which was only half an inch above his head. I went to the guy working and demanded to know why he was over there and he replied "oh we must have forgotten about him" :angry1: :BM: :censor: Ugh so before I could begin yelling again the guy looks at the poor betta and says "He doesn't look so good , why don't you just take him, hes gonna die soon anyway" I held my tounge and paid for my stuff and took my 2 new boys and left the store before I really did hit the guy working, ugh. Anyway I got the boys home and put them in their new tanks, and they immediatly perked up, the pink boys still swimming funny, and I discovered the other boy had a weird lump on his head (which I'll post about in the health section on here) But I think they'll be just fine.
Here's Gizmo
And Toby
Here's Gizmo
And Toby
no living thing should be kept like that! id mayb put the lil guy with the bump on some kind of med that treats parasites. thank you so much for saving them! i wish everyone would do the same and put there bettas in a decent sized tank! at my lps you can get these betta tanks that are only 1/6 inch wider then the cup and about the same height with a spikey plastic plant in the middle!! horrible!! and the worst thing is that everyone buys them becuase there cheap and dont understand how to keep them. perosnally i think people should be rising up agianst cups and any fish bowls or tanks that are less then 1 gallon. we should start a pitition.
Good job for putting up a fuss at the store, and for taking the boys in. 
