I nearly killed Pinky, my Betta fish last night.

See, yesterday I was doing a water change. The water’s been cloudy lately and a new filter and tablets that are supposed to help with that sort of thing didn’t seem to do any good, so I figured a water change was in order.

I was siphoning out water into a bucket. I looked down at the bucket to see how full it was, and then there was this weird sort of jerk to the tube. Pinky had gotten himself vacuumed up! Sucked clear through the hose to the squeezy part that causes the suction. I pulled the tube apart and got the little fish back into the tank, but he was pretty beat up. I dumped the Stress Coat stuff into the tank and tried to get it around where the fish was hovering.

He might still die, but at least as of this morning he was eating and attempting to threaten the other fish in the tank (they’re unimpressed).