This is something that I started on the last forum that I was a moderator on and it really seemed to help. Some owners of bettas become very attached and the death of their fish affects them very greatly. There is a natural and normal grieving process that a person experiences with the loss of any loved pet and with a betta, since they seem to have a personality and communicate with us fairly well (those who witness their first "betta dance" will tell you so) the loss of a betta can be traumatic. So I am starting this thread so those of you who choose to can post a tribute to any of the bettas who you would like to see memorialized here on this forum in a formal way. You can post a small obituary of them, a small story of some thing they did or some small act that meant something special to you that involved them in your life. You can tell of the day your found them and what having them meant to you. Anything you want. I would encourage comments from others not to be put here. Let's just limit this to the comments about the fish and let that be that. If we want to have comments about the posts, then we need to post them seperately somewhere else. Otherwise this will be so spread out that the posts about the fish will get lost in the other ones. So please do not comment..let's just allow the owners to post a small comment about their fish and then if you wish to let them know about how you feel you can PM them or start a new post to them. Another suggestion would be to simply put a "Thanks" on their post by using the button at the bottom of the post if you feel you need to respond to their feelings.

Rose