My boy Vivi has been completely missing for over 24 hours now. I’m completely baffled.
My tank has a lid, despite this I’ve scoured every inch of the area surrounding the tank and found nothing. I searched across every corner of the tank, turned over every rock, plant, piece of decor, behind/under the filters, absolutely nothing.
There are shrimp and bladder snails, if he somehow died, I doubt they could work a body over that quickly, and even if they could, I imagine I’d at least see… bones right?
I’ve gone through 3 bettas in the last 3 years, I can’t seem to keep them longer than a year. 1st got stuck in cholla wood and died (my fault). Second one got sick despite good water conditions and died (I don’t feel like this was my fault, and I did everything I could with medications and extensive research).
And now this beautiful little black orchid betta, who was just doing do well this past year, just mysteriously disappears with 0 explanation.
I just can’t keep doing this any more. I love bettas but I can’t go through one per year, it’s just too heartbreaking. Plus, I finally got my shrimp colony to take off and it’s always a gamble with bettas whether they can be with shrimp or not.
Sorry for the long winded post, I just need to let this out.
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Posted by Soft-Percentage8888
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this happened to me as well! mine ended up jumping out of the tank through a very small hole in the lid , and getting a pretty significant distance from where i had the tank and killed himself behind my dresser 🥲 i would definitely check way further away from the tank than you would expect him to go lol
This happened to me, i also had a lid with a small gap on the corner I found my betta some months later under my tv cabinet on the opposite side of the room (obviously dead and dried up). For water dwelling creatures they really can travel a good distance out of the tank.
Sorry this is happening to you. Bettas can be really hard fish to keep. It’s not your fault.