Fish Addict

Can you believe this?
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/aucti...005&1220708971
THey look like just plastic cups! And what's harder to believe is that people buy them!

Martinismommy

That is too funny! I'd just go to the dollar store thank you very much lol

Amanda

Yeah, I saw that listed before. It's sick. Someone will go on there, and be like, "Oh! I can have 100 bettas!"

Allie

That's what I got my girls from Walmart in.

cognizant

That is so sad! And to think I feel guilty that Hughie is only in a 2.5g.

pinkfloydpuffer

Wow...
To start with, paying for some plastic cups and having them shipped sounds like a pretty dumb thing to do.
And the bettas will end up very mad at whoever tries to keep them in those...

MousePotato

Do they come with 100 servings of hot and sour soup?

sirdarksol

To be fair, they do say that these are for raising bettas, not keeping them.
When you breed bettas, there are just too many of them to keep each in a full-sized tank, so most people keep them in jars.

pinkfloydpuffer

Ok, that makes more sense... but it still seems riddiculous to spend money on a bunch of plastic cups...

MinxMermaid

one of my LFS, where i rescued Lemon and Ace had the bettas in those, but they had no lid, and were on a shelf by the door of a VERY BUSY STREET. the water had evaporated and Lemon was in about 1 inch of black dirty water.

thank god i brought him home to his lovely blue mini bow

clinton1621

Yeah the *cough* PetSmart near me has about 100 of those stacked up on the end of one their aisles... all filled with half alive bettas, and I do mean filled with bettas because there is only enough water left in most of them to cover the fish and thats it =(