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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:51 pm
Caution: Long story ahead. I have a habit of being overly descriptive.
I'm out of betta food. The last stuff I got was delicious pellets (so delicious that my cat was always trolling around my room waiting for me to leave the open container unattended) from an organic pet food store. I was tickled that they made organic betta food, since not a lot of people care about bettas that much. Anyway, my fish loved that food right down to the last pellet.
Tonight I decided to try buying some non-organic betta pellets from a store called "Petcetera", because it's very close to my house. Big mistake. They cost over 6 dollars. Then, when I opened them up, it turned out that they weren't even in their own bottle - it turned out that the pellets were actually held in the packaging by a thin plastic, and touching the cheap cardboard backing. The manufacturers even went out of their way to put in a little black "stopper", so it gave the illusion that the pellets were in their own casing under the packaging. So, after ripping the cardboard (luckily I did this slowly) from the plastic I see that the some of the pellets are spilling out onto my bed, along with the useless black stopper that I thought was the cap to some kind of bottle. So I poured them into the empty bottle that once held the organic food. All the pellets didn't even fill half of the bottle. The organic food originally cost 4 dollars. I'll remind you that the crap I bought tonight cost over 6 dollars.
So, I figured, "well, at least that ordeal is over. The pellets are in a secure bottle and they're ready to go. They cost quite a bit, so they're probably good pellets despite the manufacturers skimping on the packaging". I put a few in Kaiyou's water. He looks excited to have pellets again, since the last few days have been spent eating some old flakes I had as I ran out of the good pellets a little while ago. He gobbles one up. His eyes shift to mine, and he stares at me for a second. He then spits the pellet out. He tries another one. Spits it out. He gives up and swims down to his "house". I'm officially worried at this point. I give some to my "main" betta, Kurenai. He's not very picky at all, but he spits these out just like the last betta did! I give them to a third betta. Same thing happened. They all have the same look of disappointment. I finally give some to my complete pig of a lady, Lethe. She happily puts one in her mouth, but she pauses. Unlike usual, she stares me right in the eye as she chews the pellet very slowly. She is giving me a look as if to say, "I'll eat this, but I should let you know that it tastes like total CRAP". She stops chewing for a moment and then I see her reluctantly swallow it. She gingerly ate the others. The fish obviously think they tasted like crap, so I give the pellets a sniff myself. They smell like soggy cardboard, so I'm guessing that is what they taste like. There's six bucks in the garbage.
I'll also mention that petcetera is now heavily advertising their cheap "betta condos" that are not much bigger than the cups they live in at the store. I always check on the fish there and tonight there was a betta with a decaying corpse of some kind of large insect in its cup. Why in the hell would that be there!? I don't think I'm ever going back there again. The cheap food I bought tonight was of course located next to the display of petcetera brand "betta condos", and I am not lying when I say they were the size of a can of soda. The cheap food was also petcetera's own brand.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:10 pm
Wow O.O That's bad! Luckily, there isn't one around here. But seriously, 6 bux for half a container! Less then! That's BAD! Wow...... poor bettas!
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:15 pm
Luckily I actually have a good amount of money in my bank account for once, but most of the time 6 dollars is a big amount to waste for me. Could have spent it on the good food for the fish, and a chocolate bar for me. Oh well.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:04 pm
Well, it was a learning experience! My fishy is so picky, he won't eat anything but bloodworms, I'd hate to waste a bunch of money on food that wouldn't even be considered good food!
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:29 pm
mines pretty picky the only things he eats are blood worms and some flakes.i bought pellets and he wont eat them.so i save them for my next fish incase he/she likes pellets.
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