Nemo Moment

Meet Piper...our beta! We had another beta previously but he died around Christmas and we finally decided it was time for another pet. Jarad & I hit up PetsMart and purchase a male beta and brought him home. I prepared his water and Jar did the honors of putting him in his new home.

However, there was an almost tragedy! As Jar was trying to siphon out the yucky water from the cup he was in at the store before dumping him into his nice, clean water, Piper had a Nemo moment. All pipes lead to the ocean! The little guy dove head first into the drain! I was in the other room and heard, "OH NO!" and came running. I saw Jar looking scared/sad in the sink's direction and said, "you didn't?!"


Jar & his sad face.

Luckily, Jar is a quick thinking and started to clear out the miscellaneous items under the sink and got a bucket under the pipe and proceeded to take the sink pipe apart to search for our little fishy!

Under the sink...

Much to my surprise and our luck, the little guy was chilling in the u-shaped pipe still since we hadn't ran the water down that side of the sink. Jar rescued the fish and safely placed him in his nice new home, to which we also added some bamboo for his entertainment. And hopefully he doesn't contract some weird bacteria from the pipe-adventure!


So, since this beta has such a love of pipes and almost met his fate in one, we decided to name him Piper.