In article .com,
IDzine01 wrote:

If you've kept bettas and watched them get stuck you'd know how hard
they
try to get air. If there's even a tiny opening in the water surface
they'll find and use it. You might be surpeise how strong they are.

I've kept many bettas but never in a situation where they had to fight
to breathe. This is no way to treat a live animal. You are suggesting a
situation that is likely to create stress and health problems.

Right now I have a tank on my desk with a make and a female in a cup
floating. If you've bred bettas you may be familiar with his.

The cup moves around a bit, it's floating after all, and bettas,
not being the brightest of fish sometimes make bad decisions.

Occasionaly the male in a frenzy of prespawning display activity
will put himself between the cup and the tank wall and is effectively
stuck. Never mind he has lots of room to get air elsewhere,
he is now determined to get air where he is, so he'll writhe,
wriggle and jump to get air, pushing the cup out of the
way.

They have found in depressions as small as heel-prints in the mud.
(Brown's account in a recent TFH)

Please post a link or more information where I can find this, because
the old Betta in a hoof print is so commonly used by people arguing for

I did, but to be more specific, Aug 24 TFH, P94, Tony Pinto's
article discusses the phenomenon of not being able to find
much in the way of bettas in small slow moving streams but
how many species of bettas are found in "flooded forest
floors"... "we did find plenty of fry in the leaf litter of
forest areas"... "... the rain arrived in the early evening,
and while taking cover under the trees we decided to fish in the
shallow leaf litter, not really expecting any success. So imagine
our surprise..." (when they pulled 20 fish out of there).

Because of their labyrinth bettas just needto be wet to survive;
one of my cats knocked a jar with a female onto the floor
last week and the poor thing was there for 3 hours in a puddle
that didn't come close to covering her. She's fine and eating like
a pig as I wrote this.

If you read a lot of aquarium literature it's full of annecdotes
of how little water it takes to sustain bettas in the wild. I'm
not sure where I read the cattle hoofprint story it may have
been Hoedemanns book. Rivulus has also been found in cattle
footprints (in South America) and will flop around on
we mud looking for the next hols to inhabit (Roger Brosseau,
pers. comm.s).

Any killifan familair with "Rivulus punctatus population Jim
Robinson's bsement floor" knows hoe little water fish need
to survive and these are fish without labyrinths.

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