ummmmmmmm.. WTF MY fish dissapeared?!!?!

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E equals MC2

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He's not in the bowl!@?!?!?!

He either jumped out and killed himself somewhere or my roommate is pulling a prank on me..


SHIIITT...

goes to check behind the shelf...

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Yea... I was right. It launched itself off the bowl. God knows how long it's been dead. I found an all dried up and shrunken carcass of the Betta fish on the floor.

I forgot to change the water last week and when the pre-summer heat wave hit this weekend, it must've gotten too hot for him to stay.

I thought Betta were tropical fish....?
 
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notfred

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Have anything in the bowl he could be hiding in/under? If not, he probably jumped out. Look for dried up fish within a 5 foot radius of the bowl.
 
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The Batt?sai

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Originally posted by: notfred
Have anything in the bowl he could be hiding in/under? If not, he probably jumped out. Look for dried up fish within a 5 foot radius of the bowl.
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i ate him. he's in my stomach now :confused:
 
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Minjin

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There are certain fish that are known for jumping. Bettas are one of them. Either put a cover over the bowl, keep the level of the water a little lower, or keep the fish fat, dumb, and happy. I use a combination of the later two...

Mark
 
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Wag

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Got cats?

Had that happen to me once. Left the tank open, came home and a fish was missing. The cat had a sly grin on his face...;)
 
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McCarthy

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I had a jewel cichlid jump out once. By the time I found it, it was stuck to the carpet and barely damp on that side, crusty dry on the exposed side. Looked dead, but I figured no harm so I put it back in the tank - carpet fibers stuck to it and all. It sank to the bottom and lay motionless on the rocks.

Couple hours later it was upright, next day it seemed fine and was eating. So my advice to others is if your fish jumps out of it's bowl and it's not completely dried up, toss it back in and see what happens.
 
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The Batt?sai

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Originally posted by: McCarthy
I had a jewel cichlid jump out once. By the time I found it, it was stuck to the carpet and barely damp on that side, crusty dry on the exposed side. Looked dead, but I figured no harm so I put it back in the tank - carpet fibers stuck to it and all. It sank to the bottom and lay motionless on the rocks.

Couple hours later it was upright, next day it seemed fine and was eating. So my advice to others is if your fish jumps out of it's bowl and it's not completely dried up, toss it back in and see what happens.
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lol :confused:
 
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Reel

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My dad has some mollies that jump a lot if he holds live food for them. He has to weigh down the lid so they don't get out. One time he found that they threw another fish out of the tank. They are some mean fish and just keep growing. In the end, there can be only one. He figures one will be dominant and kill everything else or eat them all.
 
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altonb1

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Were you watching Finding nemo near the fish bowl again? Those fish need to learn that reality and Tv are not the same thing....
 
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