What in the world?!

[Sorrell]

Are you all freakin' kidding me? Maybe I haven't been watching the news closely enough, but I haven't noticed anything that suddenly made it ok to house two male bettas splendens together. Seriously, why is this even being asked/done/considered?!

Is it just me or has this forum gone mad?!

 

[GuppyDude]

lol im not sure. i mean come on, even people who dont keep fish know males bettas will fight its not like its expensive to keep them sperated

 

[rollntider]

what if you medicate with bettamax and tetricycline? then you can right?

( I am just kidding, from the males staying together to treating with antibiotics for fun, I had to jest)

 

[BeccaBlain]

I mean, I don't agree with putting males together under most circumstances, but I think a pond or some other "Like nature" arrangement would work -- afterall, they survive in the wild, somehow.

I'd love to set up a pond with captive bred wild types and let them at it (and by pond, I'm talking about something thats about 10 feet by 10 feet and relatively shallow, heavily planted, etc.)

It would be interesting to see if they would breed, etc on their own, and how they establish territories.

Just a thought.

 

[jacblades]

when someone hears that it cant be done 99.9% of the time, they think, to quote jim carey in dumb and dumber, "THEN I STILL HAVE A CHANCE!"

 

[GuppyDude]

i wish i could just build this giant green house and land scape it so its just like their natural envirment in asia.

 

[wrs]

even my cousin knows not to put two together, and hes two!!!! Everyone knows they cant go together, but then they get fish and think theyre expersta and then bettas can go together because they said so. Some people are just pathetic. They will never learn, not even after many deaths of the Bettas. It's so funny how dumb people are.

It's like people and goldfish. Even though they know they will get big and live long they'll stick them in bowls.

 

[Synirr]

It's like people and goldfish. Even though they know they will get big and live long they'll stick them in bowls.

Or like how they give away goldfish at fairs. Kids toss a ping-pong ball into a bowl and win a fish that they probably don't have room for and don't know how to take care of. A game at a fair in my town was giving away little chicks one time
What are people going to do when those chicks grow up? They're not as cute as fully grown chickens.

 

[clutterydrawer]

Synirr it is acutally now illegal in england to give away goldfish at fairs hopefully other places will take the same action.

 

[BeccaBlain]

I won a goldfish at a fair once. Got lucky first time.

He lived to be 8 years old or so, had a 4 foot tank all to himself (greedy little monster) and grew up to be large enough to feed a family of four.

Fish had it good, and he knew it, the spoiled rotten critter.

He ended up commiting suicide, though, when the cat scared him and he whacked the hood open on his tank.

Thus ended the life of Fish. Poor Fish.

But eh, Fish had it good.

(Okay, so I think I won more than just Mr. Fish, but the rest went out into the garden ponds since I don't think I was really able of talking mother into more than one goldfish in the house. The Koi got offended by their presense. And not to mention the saltwater fish we had, and the angels that took up way too many tanks...