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AwMy Balloon Molly and Betta died :[[2007-11-24 23:10:09

I just bought the molly like 2 1/2 months ago, and had the betta for almost a year.

Tell stories of your fish plz! I'd LOVE to hear! :D funny, sad, weird, cool, etc.

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My male Betta, Mr Misfit, died the other day. He had seemed to be lonely and a woman sold me two females to keep him company. She claimed that they could all live together. Mistake #1.

It was young females and as they grew older one of them seemed to be more dominant than the other. I figured that it was a good thing since Mr Misfit seemed to need a feisty woman. Mistake #2.

Mr Misfit ended up getting really badly beaten. I put him in a tank of his own so that he could heal, but I didn't have time to monitor him properly. Mistake #3.

He died. And now to the point of the story... It turns out that the dominant female isn't a female, it's a short finned male. Short finned males look very much like females when they are young, and it took me hours of searching online and asking here on Y!A to figure out that she was really a he.

I've put my (semi) new male in a tank of his own now and he is already producing bubbles, now I'm thinking about putting him and the female together to see if they spawn. Breeding the gender confused Betta might not be profitable but I think it could be fun, and it would ease the pain of losing Mr Misfit.

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okay.. well one time my goldfish was trying so hard to swim against the filters current! it was such a funny site!