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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:54 pm
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The story part: Back in december the petstore i worked for the last 8 yrs at went bankrupt. Alot of stupid crap happened that i wont go into but i ended up taking home the reptiles, mice, hamsters, and 22 betta fish because i could take the time to rehome them. I have 11 bettas left. Managed to rehome 4, lost 5, and am keeping 2 of them. I periodically post an ad on craigslist, here is my ad: "All are males and all are veil-tails, 1 is purplish, the rest are red. 11 left. small rehoming fee I will refuse if i believe they will be fought or if you don't know how to properly care for them. pick up only email me "
I get this email from a lady in ogdensburg: if u still have the bettas im interested in all of them i have alot of fish tanks and my kids love those bettas and i do know only one per tank also do u breed them all the time because i have alot of people that i could sell them for u to
my reply: I do not breed them, these i took from the petstore in massena when they closed down back in december to try and find homes for them. I would like them to go to people that have atleast a 1 gallon or larger aquarium since the tiny bowls that they are in are death traps. I have no choice to keep the fish in them because i don't have space for that many tanks.
her reply: i understand i have a 75gal.-3 55gal.-6 10gal.-and a 38gal. so i have room for them and they should be in something bigger then them little bowls so i will take them all if its ok with u but i cant until friday to come and get them so if thats ok then let me know-ty
my reply:: What kind of fish would you be putting them in with though?
her reply: i have guppies goldfish catfish neons all community fish
my reply: The guppies will be killed if they are the brightly colored males, and they can't go in with goldfish because bettas are tropical fish and have different dietary requirements, and if the community fish is nippy the bettas fins will get shredded. I have only had success keeping a male betta in a tank with white clouds, neons, cardinals, platies, cory cats, pristellas, and certain rasboras. When we tried putting a betta in with mollies and swordtails the betta's tail got shredded.
her reply: i never had any problems like that but i feed my fish tropical flake food,blood worms,meal worms and pellet food of all kinds no matter what the fish is and never had any problems at all and i had fish sence i was 14 and i'm 37 on april 22 lol along time 23 years
my reply:: I have had problems though and because of that i have made sure to thoroughly research each species' requirements as far as housing, nutrition, and compatibility. I am just not comfortable sending them to a home where they will be mixed with species they should not be mixed with and kept in environments that are far different then what they need to thrive.
Her last reply: ok thats fine keep them thats why u still have them because u were trying to sell them before i'm not waisting anymore of my time/this is a big joke/fish are fish
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I know that what i have them in is really crappy but i clean them daily and keep them in the bathroom where it stays constantly warm. This girl emailed me today and she has 2 empty 3 gallons and wants a couple of them, i have dealt with her in the past and know she takes decent care of her pets so i will be bringing her a couple to her house tomorrow, so i am not hoarding them, i am just being picky about who gets them since i have had the displeasure of selling the fish to people through no choice of my own who ended up killing he poor fish either through ignorance or just plain stupidity.
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:49 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:31 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:29 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:34 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:48 am
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Gabrielle_AnimalLuver Crew
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:37 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:29 pm
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ladycrotalus Yeah i know i did the right thing in refusing, i wouldn't mind if they would be resold as long as it was someone who knows about proper care and actually gives a s**t but apparently this douche doesn't and someone else wanted to buy them all back in February but i never contacted her back because she stated that she has a degree in biology and in the next sentence she believes fish grow to the size of their tank and when i went to correct her politely she cut me off and changed the subject. After sleeping off my anger I won't be replying to her last email, she's not worth my time. Thanks for the reassurances though. I dropped off the 2 bettas and her tanks are pretty nice so I'm at ease and her dog looked well cared for too. I brought 3 bettas because i didn't know what colors she wanted so i have a betta accompanying me to all my classes neutral rofl maybe someone will take a shine to him xP I had this little fish once,in some class like biology,and,it was a minnow,or whatever those little wild guppy looking fish are,and the teacher had accidentally caught it when she was collecting samples for us to look under the microscope of pond water,so I was like well I'll take it home,cause we had guppies,and I had a small tank for the babies,that was not in use,so I decided to keep it,better than letting it starve,and I had it in a little glass bottle the whole day xP except one guy grabbed it and started shaking it not realizing there was a fish,he was just jokin around and stopped as soon as he realized,but she was ok,and I eventually after a long iso put her in with the guppies,and she lived for a while smile
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:12 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:44 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:12 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:13 pm
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