Is this safe for my beta fish?

My advice don’t get anymore beta fish. They are insane and live forever. Mine would manage to jump out of the bowl even with the cover on it. I think that all beta’s just have mental issues. I wouldn’t worrry to much about it.

I’ve had 2 die before this one, and I live in a college dorm so this is my only option for a pet… unless a pet rock counts

Dress the pet rock as a beta fish. (:

@sevenfourteen Aww thats pitiful :( Can you not have gerbils or guinea pigs? Mice even?

@sjmc1989: Looking for mice? Have I got a deal for you. Cheaper by the dozen.

Take the shot glass out. It is obviously pissing him off.

@gailcalled No no no. Not my thing at all I don’t like tiny little creature in my house. It would keep me up all night! Thanks for the offer anyway.

He stopped for a while but he’s still doing it.. @chyna he’s either pissed off or dumb as th pet rock @cyndihugs I think that the rock would sink and that’s not very beta-like

Is the shot glass clear or colored? I just read that some betas have color preferences and actually dislike some colors compared to others – what colors they dislike entirely depends on the individual beta.

If the shot glass is clear, do you think there’s any way – at all – that he’s somehow seeing his own reflection? If so, his reflection is probably triggering his fighting response. If you’re unsure whether or not he’s seeing his own reflection, place a small mirror outside or inside (make sure it’s clean) the bowl and see if he reacts the same way toward the mirror. If so, it’ll confirm that he’s seeing his reflection in the glass.

Besides diving into the glass, is he doing anything else? Like waving his fins at it? Are his gills expanding? If so, that’s a way to be sure he thinks the glass/his reflection is a rival.

These make nice easy to care for pets. And they won’t beat themselves to death on a shot glass.

@evelyns_pet_zebra Eeew! I’m not usually one to be… bugged… by bugs. But something about cockroaches creeps me out. Maybe it’s just the negative things they’re generally associated with and not the bugs themselves. Hmm.

@DrasticDreamer maybe you are bugist, you know, like a bug bigot? =)

Considering that your fish is still in beta testing, I would use I simpler setup. 

It’s betta. ;)

I would just take out the shot glass. He may be seeing a reflection or something in it. They’re fighters, which is why they live in solitude, so he may be trying to fight his own reflection.

Ger an inflatable rock! You can take the fishrock for a walk, something bettas don’t do. ha! :)

@evelyns_pet_zebra – AHH!! I was NOT prepared for those bugs.

@ubersiren @XOIIO @DrasticDreamer I took the shot glass out but he was still pretty much bumping into the sides of the bowl and the gravel at the bottom (which is black.. if that matters) I checked on him this morning and he survived the night but I just came back from studying and he’s dead. That pet rock is sounding really good right about now. I did everything the same as the last fish (which lived for over 2 years) and now I’m thinkin that I’ll grow a plant.

You want to kill a plant too?

lol, no. I talked to a few people about it though and they said the water at our college is loaded with chemicals that have killed multiple fish within the past few weeks. Would a high concentration of chemicals make a fish want to kill himself/go crazy though?

@sevenfourteen Aw, crap. I’m sorry to hear that. If multiple fish have died, then yeah… It probably has something to do with the water.

Just get another one and put it in the same bowl, it may not completly solve the problem, but it will change things, perspective maybe.

Oh no, I’m so sorry! Chemicals in the water may be a fair assumption. Since bettas are aggressive, that may be their natural reaction to a contaminated environment. Or maybe he just had one too many bad days at work. Poor fishy…