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Flame the Flying Beta
I just finished posting that I was going to watch TV when I stopped in the kitchen to get a coke. I looked at the two beta tanks that are on the counter and asked Steven, "Where's Flame?" I look down in the sink and see him lying in a bowl, not moving. I pick the bowl up and dump him back in his tank and he starts swimming around like nothing has happened. I bought a new beta today (a birthday fish for the birthday fishgirl) and had placed the tanks next to each other so they could puff up and protect their territories (I've read articles that say they're happier when they can do this occasionally). I guess Flame freaked out and flung himself out of his tank. Steven said that it's a good thing I walked into the kitchen since he obviously hadn't been out of the tank that long. Hopefully he won't have stressed himself too much, but it was completely freaky to see him lying in the sink like that! Poor Flame the Flying Beta!
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I've had fish since I was 6 until I went away to college and we had several that did the flying leap when we were trying to clean out the tank and they were stuck in buckets for an hour or so. I especially remember the kissing gourami fish that jumped out unbeknownst to me. I found him accidentally when I stepped on him with my bare feet. I quickly him threw him back in the water and he lived to be a ripe old age although with a black splotchy scar on his head... since it was the 80's though, he was named Gorbachev and his friend was named Reagan!
.: cybertoad said on March 19, 2002 11:46 AM :: link it :.It's weird what animals do in misguided attempts to find a better situation. My hamster used to walk right off tabletops or stairs; I was the most vigilant nine year old on the block when she was out for a walk.
.: jamese said on March 19, 2002 11:54 AM :: link it :.You're too early! Come back at March 18, 2002 10:49 PM to see this post.
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