About a month ago we bought our first family Betta fish, Obi Wan Kenobi. We've loved him and the kids enjoyed feeding him twice a day as well as cleaning his tank once a week.
Yesterday Sydney and I cleaned his tank. Everything seemed fine. This morning we turned on his light, and fed him. He was swimming along working on his love nest that we removed yesterday by cleaning his tank.
We left to run some errands and when we returned, poor Obi Wan was doing the dead fish float.
He had some issues with eating since we got him. I did some research and read that it's normal for a fish to not eat well for a week or so after you get them. An adjustment period, I suppose. Well, it never got better and I looked at different foods, soaking his food first to soften them, nothing... Today, he sadly took a swim to the great wide ocean in heaven. We'll miss him and are all sad. Ben is heartbroken, but he feels everything so deeply! We've promised the kids we will buy them a new fish when we return from vacation. In the mean time, I'm planning on doing some more research on Bettas and their food. If anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it.
Yesterday Sydney and I cleaned his tank. Everything seemed fine. This morning we turned on his light, and fed him. He was swimming along working on his love nest that we removed yesterday by cleaning his tank.
We left to run some errands and when we returned, poor Obi Wan was doing the dead fish float.
He had some issues with eating since we got him. I did some research and read that it's normal for a fish to not eat well for a week or so after you get them. An adjustment period, I suppose. Well, it never got better and I looked at different foods, soaking his food first to soften them, nothing... Today, he sadly took a swim to the great wide ocean in heaven. We'll miss him and are all sad. Ben is heartbroken, but he feels everything so deeply! We've promised the kids we will buy them a new fish when we return from vacation. In the mean time, I'm planning on doing some more research on Bettas and their food. If anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it.
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