I Miss Her

[BettaCrazy7]

I don't think I've ever missed a fish so much. I lost her months and months ago. She had the greatest personality of all my bettas. To come home to find her lifeless body at the bottom of the tank devastated me.

Have you ever had a fish that you loved so much?

 

[lilacamy931]

Aw hon so so sorry for your loss. I found that with one of my male bettas Calcifer, after he passed on (in a rather horrible way, couldnt really feel for my bettas anymore - I know this is a horrid thing to say). I still have my OAP but other than this wont go near bettas for now..

edit: calcifer is the beauty in my avatar, he was actually my first betta and also the one with the best personality ever come across in a fish.

 

[BettaCrazy7]

Aw hon so so sorry for your loss. I found that with one of my male bettas Calcifer, after he passed on (in a rather horrible way, couldnt really feel for my bettas anymore - I know this is a horrid thing to say). I still have my OAP but other than this wont go near bettas for now..

edit: calcifer is the beauty in my avatar, he was actually my first betta and also the one with the best personality ever come across in a fish.

He has beautiful fins.

 

[Honeythorn]

I'm not surprised you miss her, she's stunning.

The fish I miss most was actually a golden weather loach I had a few years ago, who was extremely tame and friendly. He used to swim through my fingers, nibble them and swim to the surface to feed by hand.

I had kribs in the tank at the time and they were digging holes all over the place. I also had a tall roman arch ornament with hollow "legs" . As I'm sure you've probably guessed, the kribs dug a hole under it, and the loach swam up a leg and couldn't get down again.

I had no idea of that and couldn't find the fish anywhere. I even checked outside the tank in case he'd somehow got out. But a couple of weeks later I removed the ornament while changing stuff around, turned it upside down and his poor little body floated out

I'm still gutted about that fish.

 

[Lacuna]

I don't think I've ever missed a fish so much. I lost her months and months ago. She had the greatest personality of all my bettas. To come home to find her lifeless body at the bottom of the tank devastated me.

Have you ever had a fish that you loved so much?

She's gorgeous, one of the best looking females I've seen. It's a real shame she died. I lost a couple of bettas when I was starting out, but they died in less than 48 hours so I didn't have time to get really attached to be honest. I've lost a couple of pygmy corys (found one dead yesterday) but it's not the same as losing a fish you've named and that you interact with. I'll be gutted when I lose my current two bettas, although I hope that won't be for ages.

Calcifer was beautiful too lilacamy931, sorry he died.

 

[BettaCrazy7]

When Sparta, my avatar, was sick I would get really stressed and she would always put a smile back on my face. Then she got sick and I lost all hope . She died and Sparta got better.

 

[Mauricia]

Yeah, I had an HM orchid marble mustard gas named Molly that I was very attached to, her tank was right next to my bed and I would always play with her, had her for about 2 years. She was so cute and friendly, every time i got home she would buzz to the front of the tank from her coconut shell and dance around. <3 Then she had these horrible seizure like things and died while I was watching her.

 

[MewMew42]

my [ill advised] albino rainbow shark I had in my ten gallon, she scraped er eye on an ornament in the tank and bled to death

when it first started te infection
betta wise it has to be jasper, he was my first crowntail and I loved him, until columnaris took a hold and I lost a few, none quite hit me as hard as Jasper did

 

[Betta_luver]

It's sad when you lose a special fish. When my first betta, Risteek, passed away I stopped betta keeping for awhile. I was just gutted over losing him. He had gotten stuck in between some rivers stones and suffocated.

 

[Assaye]

Losing Lilith and Rei (my first females) was really hard - they got taken very suddenly when a particularly nasty strain of columnaris hit the community tank. Losing them contributed to me very nearly failing one of my finals (uni exams).

Lilith:

Rei:

I was a real mess when Balthazar (my first and only crowntail) and Osiris (my first ever betta) died.

Balthazar:

Osiris:

Orion was my second betta and first boy to die - we think he had something bacterial. He was never a well fish - was a rescue.

Orion:

Ffinsan has really hard because he was very sudden. He was another rescue and was in awful condition when I got him but become the friendliest little boy.

Ffin the day I rescued him:

Ffinsan a few weeks before he suddenly died (his fins never really grew back properly):

Deimos was very recent and I think if I hadn't lost so many bettas, it would have hurt a lot more than it did. I've kinda become numb to it.

Deimos:

I still can't work out what I'm doing wrong with my bettas. Getting teary now.

 

[Mauricia]

I'm glad to hear other people get as sad as me though, everyone always tells me I'm being ridiculous for crying and getting all upset and having funerals when my poor fishies die. I don't feel so bad when they're clearly very old though, it's mostly bad when they get really sick and die.
Everyone's bettas are lovely by the way.