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I read the posts about too small of cups or irregular water changes for bettas. I can sympathize with that issue, but today I witnessed a new low. I went into a certain store tonight (was not an LCS or LFS), and this "mart" had THREE, YEAH THREE!!!, male bettas in one cup. There were shredded fins all over the bottom of the cup, but all of them were alive. Luckily, the water they were in was so putrid that they wouldn't even fight. I went ahead and filled the TWO EMPTY CUPS with tap water (our tap doesnt contain chlorine) and separated the three. I wish I could have bought them, but I couldn't. Still though, how cruel can you get?

Actually, I've read about that happening at different stores as well. But, it most likely wasn't the store that did that. Some "kids" think it's funny to watch the bettas fight, so when nobody is looking, they dump the bettas into one cup.

Yup usually teenage boys. They just dump the bettas into the same cup. ]:| There should be a law...

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