Okay, so my friend and I went to WalMart to shop for a few things, and she ended up wanting a fish. It was cheap, and I guess she likes them... so she got a beta-fish, named it Piggy, and got it its own little tank and those colorful pebbles that rest on the bottom of the tank. She got food as well, of course.
As we drive home, the fish is fine. It's swimming in its little thing that it initially came in and the original water, no problem. As we arrive at our residence hall, we part to our separate rooms, and about a half-hour later she rushes to my room and says, "Brandon, look what's happening to my fish!"
So, I go in, and it's doing these weird squirmy movements all around. After that, it decides to float to the top and lay on its side, where it seems like it's surfacing at one of its gills so it's hitting air just a little bit (which it shouldn't be doing). Then for about five seconds it would jerk around underwater again, and then it would surface on its side again. It did this about 10 times total before I guess it finally died.
She said that when she got back she filled the new tank up with Aquafina bottled water at room temperature (she said she had to microwave it to get it to room temperature), and that she put the rocks in, etc.
So, a few possibilities:
1) Did microwaving the water send some sort of radiation into the water that fish can't handle? Did she fry its brain?
2) Is bottled water not the right water to use?
3) Should have she cleaned the rocks/tank before using it?
4) Was the fish attempting to commit suicide?
There are so many possibilities, and she wants to get another one (not at Wal-Mart this time, though), but this time she wants to make sure that everything happens the way that it should so the fish actually lives longer than an hour. So, to any fish owners... what happened here?
As we drive home, the fish is fine. It's swimming in its little thing that it initially came in and the original water, no problem. As we arrive at our residence hall, we part to our separate rooms, and about a half-hour later she rushes to my room and says, "Brandon, look what's happening to my fish!"
So, I go in, and it's doing these weird squirmy movements all around. After that, it decides to float to the top and lay on its side, where it seems like it's surfacing at one of its gills so it's hitting air just a little bit (which it shouldn't be doing). Then for about five seconds it would jerk around underwater again, and then it would surface on its side again. It did this about 10 times total before I guess it finally died.
She said that when she got back she filled the new tank up with Aquafina bottled water at room temperature (she said she had to microwave it to get it to room temperature), and that she put the rocks in, etc.
So, a few possibilities:
1) Did microwaving the water send some sort of radiation into the water that fish can't handle? Did she fry its brain?
2) Is bottled water not the right water to use?
3) Should have she cleaned the rocks/tank before using it?
4) Was the fish attempting to commit suicide?
There are so many possibilities, and she wants to get another one (not at Wal-Mart this time, though), but this time she wants to make sure that everything happens the way that it should so the fish actually lives longer than an hour. So, to any fish owners... what happened here?
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