Re: Superbetta

[Velvet]

High Flight wrote:

> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
> morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
> back IN from the countertop!
>
> Jack
>

Ah, but isn't this (reputedly) how they move from shallow puddle to
shallow puddle in their native environment? by flipping just like that?

Not a betta expert (but do have one happily living in my community tank
along with pearl gourami pair and angel pair and asst others)

Velvet

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> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well
> this morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he
> actually jumped back IN from the countertop!
>
> Jack

Happy April Fools Day Jack!!!

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"High Flight" > wrote in message
...
> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
> morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
> back IN from the countertop!
>
> Jack
>
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Hmmmm. What day is it today? ;-)

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[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Superbetta
>From: High Flight
>Date: 4/1/2004 7:32 AM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: >
>
>I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
>morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
>back IN from the countertop!
>
> Jack

ROFL!!!
You have a SMART Betta.
He did a stupid thing, realized how stupid it was and jumped back in. LOL
Was he rolling his eyes too after he got back in? = )~

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Superbetta
>From: Velvet
>Date: 4/1/2004 8:06 AM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: >
>
>High Flight wrote:
>
>> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
>> morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
>> back IN from the countertop!
>>
>> Jack
>>
>
>Ah, but isn't this (reputedly) how they move from shallow puddle to
>shallow puddle in their native environment? by flipping just like that?
>
>Not a betta expert (but do have one happily living in my community tank
>along with pearl gourami pair and angel pair and asst others)
>
>Velvet
>

The whole "mud puddle" thing is only a small part of the whole picture. I'll
explain what I mean.
In their native habitat...there is a dry season. The Bettas and other labyrinth
fish have developed a way to survive the dry season, by using their secondary
method of getting O2...a Labyrinth organ. Works like our lungs. They also get
O2 out of the water via their gills, just like normal fish do too.
People have taken this one small part of their existance in the wild and have
gone with it like it's how they live 100% of the time, which isn't true at all.
It's only part of the picture.
Rice paddies are (unless during the dry season) pretty deep. Like 18" or so
deep and cover a large area. They're also made to receive constant freshwater.
Again..unless it's during the dry season.

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Superbetta
>From: "RedForeman ©®"
>Date: 4/1/2004 8:19 AM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: >
>
>> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well
>> this morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he
>> actually jumped back IN from the countertop!
>>
>> Jack
>
>Happy April Fools Day Jack!!!

Oh man! Was a taken or what!

[Velvet]

TYNK 7 wrote:
>>Subject: Re: Superbetta
>>From: Velvet
>>Date: 4/1/2004 8:06 AM Central Standard Time
>>Message-id: >
>>
>>High Flight wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>>>feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
>>>morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
>>>back IN from the countertop!
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>
>>Ah, but isn't this (reputedly) how they move from shallow puddle to
>>shallow puddle in their native environment? by flipping just like that?
>>
>>Not a betta expert (but do have one happily living in my community tank
>>along with pearl gourami pair and angel pair and asst others)
>>
>>Velvet
>>
>
>
> The whole "mud puddle" thing is only a small part of the whole picture. I'll
> explain what I mean.
> In their native habitat...there is a dry season. The Bettas and other labyrinth
> fish have developed a way to survive the dry season, by using their secondary
> method of getting O2...a Labyrinth organ. Works like our lungs. They also get
> O2 out of the water via their gills, just like normal fish do too.
> People have taken this one small part of their existance in the wild and have
> gone with it like it's how they live 100% of the time, which isn't true at all.
> It's only part of the picture.
> Rice paddies are (unless during the dry season) pretty deep. Like 18" or so
> deep and cover a large area. They're also made to receive constant freshwater.
> Again..unless it's during the dry season.
>

Oh, I realised that.. just I was offering it as a possible explanation
for the leaping fish... I'm in the UK so when it gets to mid-day we tend
to stop thinking things might be april-fools... forget of course that
when the USA wakes up, it's still prime fooling time for them post-noon
here..

Would love to see bettas in their native environs one day. I've had
several but none as long-lived as this one, he's such a happy chap and I
can't help but think it's down to the overgrowth of plants going on it
the tank constantly - must resemble a rice paddy more than a more
spartan tank.

They're one of my favourite fish, real stunners and wonderfully cocky
personalities with it.

Velvet

[Eric Schreiber]

TYNK 7 wrote:

> Rice paddies are (unless during the dry season)
> pretty deep. Like 18" or so deep and cover a
> large area. They're also made to receive
> constant freshwater.


Shhh. You'll ruin years of marketing efforts. You know perfectly well
that bettas in the wild live in stacks of tiny plastic cups of stagnant
water!


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[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Superbetta
>From: "Eric Schreiber" ericat ericschreiber dot com
>Date: 4/1/2004 1:02 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: >
>
>TYNK 7 wrote:
>
>> Rice paddies are (unless during the dry season)
>> pretty deep. Like 18" or so deep and cover a
>> large area. They're also made to receive
>> constant freshwater.
>
>
>Shhh. You'll ruin years of marketing efforts. You know perfectly well
>that bettas in the wild live in stacks of tiny plastic cups of stagnant
>water!
>
>

You stinker! = )~
Hehe

[NetMax]

"High Flight" > wrote in message
...
> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well
this
> morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually
jumped
> back IN from the countertop!
>
> Jack

Didn't it also do something remarkable last year (and the year before),
almost to the day in fact ;~)

NetMax

[Polarhound]

High Flight wrote:

> I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
> morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
> back IN from the countertop!

Is that like having a lungfish jump out of his tank, slither two rooms
down, and hop in another so he can have dinner?

[Michi Henning]

"Polarhound" > wrote in message
...
> High Flight wrote:
>
> > I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
> > feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well this
> > morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he actually jumped
> > back IN from the countertop!
>
> Is that like having a lungfish jump out of his tank, slither two rooms
> down, and hop in another so he can have dinner?

Be sure to have a hoop handy next time. And, the time after that,
be alert and ready with that roll of tear-off tickets at $1 each :-)

Cheers,

Michi.

[Donny]

"Michi Henning" > wrote in
:

> "Polarhound" > wrote in message
> ...
>> High Flight wrote:
>>
>> > I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>> > feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well
>> > this morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he
>> > actually jumped back IN from the countertop!
>>
>> Is that like having a lungfish jump out of his tank, slither two
>> rooms down, and hop in another so he can have dinner?
>
> Be sure to have a hoop handy next time. And, the time after that,
> be alert and ready with that roll of tear-off tickets at $1 each :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michi.
>
>

You guys may be teasing him, but I saw a fish once jump out of his tank
to halfway across the room where another fish was stranded. Then the
first fish was able to launch the second fish into the sink and down the
drain to freedom. The whole scene was very touching. I almost cried.

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Superbetta
>From: Donny
>Date: 4/5/2004 10:43 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>"Michi Henning" > wrote in
:
>
>> "Polarhound" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> High Flight wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've never heard of THIS happening before. When doing the morning
>>> > feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets. Well
>>> > this morning my betta jumped out! And before I could react, he
>>> > actually jumped back IN from the countertop!
>>>
>>> Is that like having a lungfish jump out of his tank, slither two
>>> rooms down, and hop in another so he can have dinner?
>>
>> Be sure to have a hoop handy next time. And, the time after that,
>> be alert and ready with that roll of tear-off tickets at $1 each :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michi.
>>
>>
>
>You guys may be teasing him, but I saw a fish once jump out of his tank
>to halfway across the room where another fish was stranded. Then the
>first fish was able to launch the second fish into the sink and down the
>drain to freedom. The whole scene was very touching. I almost cried.
>
>

LOL !! = )~