thegatti Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Help!! I was cleaning out 22 betta jars so I placed the bettas in plastic cups. I had to go out for a few hours and when i came back one of the cups had no betta inside it What happened? Oh dear i hope he didn't go out with the dirty tank water!!! Maybe he jumped, but I can't find him anywhere. HELP PLEASE!!! :sad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2jdaze Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Bettas can jump.... and they can get stuck in all kinds of weird places! do a really really thorough search of the entire room... (including behind bookcases or shelves etc [i found one of mine stuck halfway down behind a bookshelf once - he lived to leap again]) good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Sounds like a jumper, was he near the drain? Look for a betta-sized dust bunny, or if you have cats or dogs, look for someone with a guilty expression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettc777 Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 betta-sized dust bunny LMAO! sorry found that funny! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anasfire Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I've had to rescue many of my fry from the S bend under the sink coz there was always a few that spazzed out during water change and jumped out of their cups and down the drain! I actually had to rescue one of them again recently, now adult size, as he did it again....jumped out during water change and here I was thinking he was too big to fit down the holes in the drain grate but I was wrong! Had to get my partner to undo the S bend and rescue his fish (gave it to him a few months ago)! Some will just do it time and time again, I learnt my lesson the hard way though and took to placing the plug in the sink and just tipping the entire contents into the sink and fishing the Betta out with a net to be place into the clean jar! It's a longer process but in the long run safer! Good luck finding him...if u haven't recently used the sink I suggest taking the S bend off...there should be rings u can undo, but make sure there is a bucket underneath to catch the water as it will leak and wear a mask or have another bucket handy to puke in coz the smell of a drain is putrid! Good Luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 get one of those kitchen strainer things I have one in my bathtub too for that very reason :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegatti Posted October 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I found her late last night. I had all my cups on my bedroom dressing table cause that's where i did the water changes (by the way, i poured the water into a bucket just incase u were interested.lol). I looked in the draws and everywhere i could think of. The silly girl had jumped behind the dressing table! It was too late . My betta was a shrivelled up thing on the carpet . I put her in some water just in case, but she was already " in the giant fishbowl in the sky" Some things I have learned are to always cover the cups when doing water changes and to not fill the cups with so much water. Silly me, I thought that they would know better than to jump out of water onto the floor!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betta_Endeavours Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Sorry to hear that I was part way through feeding when my new orange VT suddenly jumped out> I put him straight back in his bay and he seemed okay so I fed him and Robert made sure he can't jump out again tonight :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2jdaze Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 yep bettas can and will jump! even if they've never jumped before... and if you think "oh that space is surely too small for such a big fishy to jump out of" then you're wrong! (I know that any one of my girls can jump around 2 inches high so I keep the water level around that far from the top and keep the lid on ALL the time!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegatti Posted October 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 It's soo good when we can come here and share eachothers blunders and mistakes I love it when we all share tips aswell. When all my fish were in the cups, One of the males jumped into another male's cup!! I got him back just in time though (whew) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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