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well flare died well because of bad water or age or food I feel bad because it was my fault

Question From Sue:

I have a male betta who suddenly has been showing some strange behaviour. Taz stays at the top of the bowl, snug to the edge, with no movement other than his mouth. Wont eat. Then every twenty mins he just goes beserk, racing around the bowl on the water top as if he is trying to get out. Litterally out of the water. I did find my cat drinking water from the bowl. Could this be stress, scared or what. His colouring is way off as well. Hope you can give me some advice. I have moved his bowl to a better place where kitties cant get near him.

Since I have had a betta get eaten by a cat I think that it is a big concern for fish. I have also had betta fish jump out of their tank before too, so that can happen also, they can jump very high sometimes. I think he is both scared and stressed, especially with the cat drinking from the water, good idea to move him away.

As for him losing color – it could be nothing.. but it could be what is called “Velvet” check out this page on bettatalk.com for more information on the diesease including treatment.

From bettatalk:

Velvet is hard to spot, but can be best spotted with a flashlight. Shine the light on the betta’s body: if it looks like it is covered with a fine gold or rust mist, then it has velvet. A betta with velvet will act sick, so look for clamped fins, scratching against rocks/gravel/tank, loss of appetite, loss of color etc…

My betta fish Bo is doing well! Except for her tail rot problem. If you didn’t read about that, please go down two entrys to “Tail Rot”. Bo is doing well besides that, she is making bubbles nests and being very active, and eating well. Just wanted to give everyone an update!

So sorry I haven’t written much. For the past 4 weeks I have been with out electricity. Really long story nothing to do with Beta’s. Needless to say I was quite worried about my Mickey because of his pump. At first things were sooting up a bit without the pump running, and he missed its bubbles. So I hooked up a bicycle pump to it and got some air moving a couple times a day. Then we hooked up battery power to his tank so that he can have his water moving and bubbles. It can’t run all the time but when I do run it, he has been one happy fish. Of course I’m keeping a eye on him while we are working through this situation.

Help! My betta fish Flo died, (don’t know why, I think just because of old age) so I got a new betta. He looks almost exactly the same but a little smaller. His name is Bo. He was fine for a while, but then all of a sudden his tail looked like it was just decreasing, and chunks of it were falling off. It was like a zig zag, it just looked like it was rotting. So I looked it up online and found a thing called tail rot. We thought that was it, so we called the store where I got my betta. The store owner said that she had never heard of tail rot on betta’s before, and she thinks it was because of my plant. So we took the plant out, but it still isn’t getting any better! I clean her tank every two days, and I don’t use soap. Does anyone know what’s wrong?????????

P.S. Sorry I haven’t written in a while. I have been so busy! And I just got a new computer and I lost the betta website. Sorry!

Hey fish lovers! I just found a great online game that free and you don’t have to download it! It’s called fish tycoon…you can feed, breed, and sell your fish! wastes a good amount of time and teaches you a few things.

http://www.games.com/game/fish-tycoon/

Here is a really cool betta fish tattoo with Chinese wording that translates into “bravery; never give up spirit”.

Thanks for sending me this Jay!