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My old tadpole Swimmy died a year ago while I was on vacation and he was fed before we left. When we came back I was surprised to see that he hadn't touched the food. But he had disendegrated and yellow goo was on the top of the tank and poor Swimmy was now a black skeleton. He was a year old bullfrog tadpole on a diet of goldfish pellets and did not yet have any legs. I tried feeding him algae once but he didn't touch it. I got him from a pet shop. It was their last day in buisness before it shut down so I got Swimmy for only a dollar. He lived in a fishbowl which is now Moonlight's. Okay, does anybody know what happened?
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He lived in a bowl, for one. Bowls are killers, which we've been over before - no filtration, far too small to house...anything, really, and they foul up very quickly. He probably died of ammonia poisoning.
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We were gone for a week. I didn't know that ammonia even existed back then. That is most likely why he died.
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It's good that that's been cleared up now, but with that information, you should want to change Moonlight's situation as well - the same thing could happen to him.
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I'm working on it already. Thanks!
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i dont get it why is every one getting bettas and putting them in these very small fish bowls. at least ou should put one bull tad in a 10 gal till he is a almost frog
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Bearded Dragon: Thorn 4 year old male
European fire salamander: Scorch 3 year old male
Dwarf African Bullfrog: 1 year old Hub male
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Betty Female
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Butch male
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Boris Questionable
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Albino African clawed frog: Chump 1 year male 
African clawed frog X.borealis: Beast 1 year male
Indonesian White's Treefrog: Gump 12 yr old male
Albino African clawed frog: 1 year old Chump the 2nd male
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| I know that now. People are putting bettas in bowls for two reasons: 1) They do not want to spend money on a filtered tank and believe they will do fine in a bowl (like my mom always says because she doesn't believe me about ammonia) 2) Or they have no idea that they can't live in a bowl. I'm finding out so much about all this that now I'm wondering if a goldfish can even live in a bowl.
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| Uh...no, goldfish can't live in bowls. Do you realize that common goldfish can hit two feet in length? Most people sure don't. The ones in stores are just tiny babies - goldies can live for decades. If anything, goldfish are even less capable of handling life in a bowl than a betta is - at least a betta doesn't have a maximum size bigger than the bowl itself (not that a goldfish would ever get that big in a bowl; he'd stunt his own growth - and eventually die - in an effort to save himself).
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you have to be kiddin 2 feet oh man my cousins goin for a shock
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Bearded Dragon: Thorn 4 year old male
European fire salamander: Scorch 3 year old male
Dwarf African Bullfrog: 1 year old Hub male
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Betty Female
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Butch male
Baby african bullfrog: 1 month old Boris Questionable
R.I.P
Albino African clawed frog: Chump 1 year male
African clawed frog X.borealis: Beast 1 year male
Indonesian White's Treefrog: Gump 12 yr old male
Albino African clawed frog: 1 year old Chump the 2nd male
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Without a pond, it will most likely die long before reaching that size. Most goldfish are kept in tanks far too small for them and it shortens their lifespans terribly.
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