View Full Version : the scariest thing ever....
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 03:41 AM
ok well it wasn't the scariest thing ever but it was scary...ok well i was just getting ready to leave and i had to go and get something from my room (where my bettas are) and i had left the lid open to my tank where my female is and i found her on the floor wriggling around. I freaked out...and to make matters worse...my cat was playing with it with her paw. So i screamed at the cat to leave and i put the fish back into the tank. I had a little bit of sand on the floor so she had sand all over her. And i could really take care of her becuas i had to leave. But when i got home she was in the tank swimming but it lookes like she had some still on her tail....so i grabbed her (gently) and got it off.
Do you think she will live still??
i hope she does.
:(
she will still live....I had a female who was about totally dry when I found her and not breathing so I put her in her tank and she sunk to the bottom and in a couple minutes was breathing and in a few more swimming. they are amazingly hardy fish
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 03:49 AM
omg...thank god she will still live...thanks for that blu...Will the sand on her tail eventually fall off??? i couldn't get it all off.
AquaQueen
10-21-2007, 03:51 AM
Wow!! That's scary, and you are so LUCKY you went back in your room before you left. Damn cats, the cat probably grabbed her out of the tank as his/her snack.
MeganL3985
10-21-2007, 03:52 AM
If its sand it'll fall off. Make sure its not ick though. Sand should wash off fairly easy though.....not having to be scraped off.
My female looked like she had stuff stuck to her too not sand more like carpet fibers but like meganL said it should fall off.
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 03:59 AM
Wow!! That's scary, and you are so LUCKY you went back in your room before you left. Damn cats, the cat probably grabbed her out of the tank as his/her snack.
no the tank is too high for the cat to get it....this is the second time...the first time i was in the room when she did it and i watched her jump out. I think she is suicidal (sp?)
EDIT- i know that it is not ick. it looks nothing like ick. (sp?)
cocoa_pleco
10-21-2007, 04:02 AM
when some fish get scared they jump. my royal dottyback is the craziest jumper. if he gets scared one little bit he makes a leap
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 04:04 AM
when some fish get scared they jump. my royal dottyback is the craziest jumper. if he gets scared one little bit he makes a leap
but the thing is...there was nothing in there to scare her....thats the weird thing. my cat has always been in there and she was just laying on the bed...which is on the other side of the room.....i dunno but this is really weird. lol.
Was this the breeding tank? If it was the male may have spooked her.
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 04:20 AM
no...it was in her own.
cocoa_pleco
10-21-2007, 04:21 AM
my royal dottyback did that too once, for no reason he just leaped. fish just feel adventurous sometimes
Oh ok...some bettas are just jumpers so I would check her lid from now on just to be sure she cant jump out anymore and she should be ok
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 04:22 AM
yeah a little too adventurous though...enough to kill them.
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 04:23 AM
Oh ok...some bettas are just jumpers so I would check her lid from now on just to be sure she cant jump out anymore and she should be ok
yeah well i accidently left it open. lol.
Lol thats never good but it happens..we all forget once in a while
S13DWS
10-21-2007, 05:02 AM
Theres also a possibility in here that maybe the fish have been watching too many movies. The likes of Free Willy, and Finding Nemo come to mind thumbs2: thumbs2:
When i first got my fish they were really excited about getting food because i would feed them like 6 times a day that they would come up to the surface and get the flakes and on occation id get a fright from one almost breaking completely out of the water. Now I feed them sinking pellets because none of them come up to the surface anymore.....
Hopefully you remember to keep your lid down from now on :-)
MeganL3985
10-21-2007, 05:13 AM
Omg, my neon's won't come up to the surface either!! Those little pigs always came up and then one day stopped! I posted about it the other day about them not eating. They were eating, but only when those flakes would sink (hours later).....now I drop some flakes in and push them down into the water with my finger! Ugh...its weird...lol
mitcore
10-21-2007, 05:21 AM
that is weird squirt
i have never had my fish jump
though when i had my peacock eels i was told to close all wholes cause they jump out of the tank
LOL
MeganL3985
10-21-2007, 05:35 AM
When I was younger we had those dwarf froggies and they used to jump out of the back of the tank all the time. We tried putting foil or something over the hole but it always ended up moved and the frogs on the floor.
I've only had one fish jump out, but it was in a small bowl while I was cleaning, so it didn't actually jump out of a tank or anything. Poor thing was leather by the time I found him :(
cocoa_pleco
10-21-2007, 05:40 AM
so far the royal gramma has been the only fish that has jumped on me. i used to keep african butterfly's (coolest FW fish ever), and theyre supposed tank jumpers. they never jumped out of my open top tanks
squirt_12
10-21-2007, 02:54 PM
well my betta is doin gok but this morning she was swimming weird...like really slowly...but i hope she will be ok.
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