"Beano" wrote in message
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wow does that pushing back and forward thing work? I got told that if
you want to kill a sick fish, you could just grab it's tail and pull
the fish backward through the water and it will drown them. Don't know
if it's true and never tried it...

Yeah I had a snail in a tank years ago with some assorted tropicals -
chances are with those antennae, they are going to get nipped from time
to time, but I'd say take it out away from the betta. Having said
that, maybe he'll get bored of it...


I guess if you would do it fast or hard I don't know if it would drown, but
doing it as if they are swimming, and again if they are no longer swimming
for them self, I guess doing it hard could do something maybe hurt them.
I took the snail out and my betta got mad, he does that a lot, he decided to
lay on the bottom of the tank as if he was dead, so when I was feeding them
all I skipped him since he wanted to act dead, then all a sudden he came up
wanting his food, so I fed him, when he gets mad he does that, (im mad at
you and wish I was dead, you know like a little kid, he got my attention at
first by doing that.
Nik