TUBOB: You Betta, You Betta, You Bet!

I’ve been reluctant to blog of this, as my mourning period didn’t end until yesterday, but a couple of weeks ago my best swimming pal, Ho Chi Finh, expired. My Betta bud had not been very perky for a few days and was ignoring his feed and I came home after a weekend in Spokane and he was a goner. The weird thing was he’d been doing great up until a couple of weeks before he bellied up, but his tank had grown dirty, I mean real scummy and nasty and even though everyone says Bettas do best in filthy muck, barely inches deep, I just couldn’t stand it. Ever since the cleaning he hadn’t seemed the same. Maybe everyone knows what they’re talking about after all/TUBOB. More here .

Question (from TUBOB): When you’ve lost a dear pet do you quickly replace him/her or do you allow some appropriate time to grieve or do you never get another one like him/her?