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I was wondering the same thing.

The only thing that I can think about is that maybe something got in the pipes because of the tornado last weekend. I did a partial change on the others, so maybe there was enough of the old water in there to overtake anything wrong with the water. I am going to have to check each one tonight...

Ok, I don't know what happened. I did full water changes on 6 of my males late Friday night. I did nothing out of the ordinary, and I used the same dechlorinator and water that I normally do. All were fine up until yesterday after I got home. One jumped (his water is not anywhere close to...

16 in all. It takes several hours to clean tanks. That is my stress reliever. :D

I will have to get a better pic of him. Humans go blue when they die, so if bettas did that, he would be what they look like. His eyes are even glazed over like a dead human. It is very weird. He has 2 red spots on his anal fin, so that is why I say that he was shot in battle, and now he is...

Looks like a gorgeous veil tail to me. I almost got a fish just like that at Walmart last night. I am tempted to go back tomorrow. :drool: I am so addicted. Great tank!! :good:

Seeing as I have 16 bettas now, these are only a couple. These were taken with my camera phone, so they aren't great, but you can get the drift. I need to get my good camera out and start snapping better ones. This is the one that I would like to have done in stained glass, but I can't...

Lookey what I got last night at Wallyworld!!! :drool: Iddn't he BEAUTIFUL!! He is a feisty thing. All the boys have been flitting since he came along. I also got another one too. He is gorgeous himself, but I couldn't get a good pic of him. Look at that shine!! Here is the other guy!!

We did have enough notice with this one that I could gather as many as possible. I just don't like feeling that I have not tried everything I could to save them. If there is no time, there is no time, but I like having a plan in case there is time. Thanks for the feedback.

Actually, we don't usually have tornados, but this has been an active year. We have had a ton of severe storms over the last few months. I am in Central Texas.

They are all in glass containers. I would be afraid of them breaking while trying to move them. I was thinking about keeping those disposable ziploc containers under the cabinet with small slits in the lids. That way I can pour a little bit of water in there to systain them until I can get...

Bad bad bad. Nope. You run, you get sucked up. Basically, I had 4 dogs and 3 cats in the bathroom. I covered up the guinea pigs and the turtles, because I didn't have time to put them in containers and get them to the bathroom too. (The containers were being washed from the tornado the week...

We had a tornado hit here on friday night, and I realized that I don't have a disaster plan for the boys. I have 12 guys all in separate containers, no divided tanks. What would you do if a disaster happened and you had to get your fish out pronto? I have a plan for my other animals, but I...

Ok, so I looked at "it" last night. There is a definitely HUGE (by fish standards) white thing coming down between the ventrals and the anal fin. Do young males have this? I suppose I will keep this one separated until I know what exactly he/she is. Don't want to add any females if in fact...

Well, "IT" has dark lines running the length of the body. Is that normal in Males? I have 12 others that I know are males, but I haven't seen the lines. I got "it" thinking that the fins were a little long for a female, but I can't get "it" to flare. Are there any pics showing a definite...