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I had quite the adventure this afternoon during a routine betta tank cleaning. I have some very nice bettas that were imported from Thailand (plan to breed them). A couple of weeks ago I got some Plakats. Very pretty and really cool personalities. Anyway, every weekend I do a 100% water change for them. During this I sit them on the counter in individual yogurt cups. Well, I had been cleaning out the tanks, and it had been about 20 minutes since I last looked at the fish, and I was starting to put them back in their individual areas, and I picked up the cup of my brand new yellow plakat female... NO FISH! I was like ACK! I started searching EVERYWHERE! I finally grabbed a flashlight and looked under the microwave: no fish. So I looked behind the stove: fish! I had to pull the stove out all the way into the middle of the kitchen, praying the whole time I was not smashing her under it. I finally got her in the net and put her in the water still running in the last tank I was cleaning. She was CAKED in dog hair and dust, and all dried out and no longer moving. I would not give up on her so I just kept pulling fur off of her and rubbing her under the running water. She was a floater for sure. Then I realized I had tossed her right into the tap water without treating it. Now she had bloody streaks going through her fins. I kept trying and rubbing, and swimming her around with my hands. I made her a cup of treated water and left her in it, checking back from time to time and making her swim and go to the surface to breath. She laid on the bottom on her side for about half an hour, and now she is swimming around like nothing ever happened! You could look at all my fish and never even guess which one had spent around 20 minutes out of water and dried up in dog hair. She officially got a change of name today; no longer is she Opal, now she is plain old Tuff! LOL!

That was quite an adventure!! My male betta decided to jump into the sink during a water change - I was so afraid that he was going to go down the drain before I caught him - I did manage to catch him before going down the drain I'm glad everything worked out ok for your female!

Stella

Thanks Stella! Tuffie is still acting like her one fin is a little sore, but overall she is doing fabulous. Funny you should mention the betta in the sink thing. That is one of my greatest fears because we have a garbage disposal in the one sink and it would be SO easy for one to get into there, and SO hard to get one back out in one piece. That is actually the reason they sit on the stove side of the counter rather than the sink side when I am cleaning aquariums. Crazy little bettas! LOL! Actually I have 8 bettas arriving tomorrow in the mail from 3 different breeders. YIPPY!

Wow what a day. my female jumped out a while back but i have carpet so she started to dry up but i found her and put in wter but she died a few days later.

ACK! That is my main worry... that she is just looking good now, but will go downhill later. With as much dog fur as she was covered in, she may as well have been laying on a carpet. Poor little thing. Good lord... with as picky as I am about the cleanliness of my house, I was shocked about the number of dustbunnies and small dogs that were under the stove! LOL!

Sorry to hear about your loss Chris!