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Joey-Com isn't eating. Maybe his palate is too refined for "Betta Buffet" pellets. I thought that the adjustment from a small plastic cup to a moderately sized fish bowl would slightly affect his diet, and I was allowing a day or so to compensate. Alas, he nibbles a pellet and spits it out and swims around and floats for most of the day. We cleaned out the bowl, as the food was beginning to rot. That was quite an ordeal, as we didn't have any of the right tools for the job. The ladle was too big, the spoon wa too small, and the wooden stirring spoon was too long and clumsy. We knew enough not to use our hands... but that's about it. Eventually we just kept pouring and pouring the water out until he had nothing else to do except to flop into the transitory cup. And those silly red rocks we got to sit at the bottom of the bowl are a disaster! Impossible to clean the non-eaten pellets from them, and most went down the drain because of it.

I don't know. Is he happy in here, with his fake plastic sea-plant, and his strange red rocks, and his bottled water, and his Betta Buffet Pellets? Do fish feel? Can they get depressed? Is he happier here than in the store where people actually knew what to do to take care of him, even if it's a life in a tiny cup? Does he "like" bigger spaces? Does his brain produce "ZING ZING ZING!"s when he eats or is in good water?