Classroom Pet

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Tommy: "Jest Pettin da Phish, Teach!"

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LOL! With preschoolers you just never know! :D

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You should get a betta! They can live over 5 months

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I actually did get a betta. He is mostly blue, but also has some red and green on him--very pretty. His name is "Rainbow" after the children's book The Rainbow Fish.

I have had bettas before. They are very easy to take care of. I have had some that have lived much longer than 5 months. My mother has one now that she has had for 2 or 3 years.

My mom aides in an EMI class that had a pet betta named Spot. He died this summer after living three and a half years.

i had a betta live for 5 years, they arnt very active though.

I had a betta named Rainbow. So did my 1st grade teacher! '

Good luck with Rainbow!

i have a betta named fishy blue bubbles, i have had him for about a year now, i have no clue hiw old he was when i got him though. he is suprisingly strong, and pretty active too, when I turn off his light he lowers to the bottom of his tank and rests till I turn the light back on in the morning, during the day he will pick up gravel and throw it at the side of his tank lol he is pretty active all around :p I have never had a betta(or any fish for that matter) live this long before :p and the only thing I am doing different is i bought him a little betta tank, instead of keeping him in the 10 gallon, all the bettas i have ever had in that thing only lived for like 2 weeks. :(

Rainbow is in a one gallon aquarium. I just don't like those little betta bowls.

I got my betta in April this year. He is red with green which in some angles he is purple(he was a bit more purple there when I first got him). His name is Sexy, I named him when I was hyper,teehee. He's not so much of a tough betta, he usually doesn't puff out his gills. It's fun to watch him eat and swim around, he really likes my aquarium lamp which is right beside him and he always sleep in his fake plastic seaweed. I saw some pretty cool betta's at Ruffin's today, I really like the pearly ones with pink and green with blue fins:D I think their called opaque. I also saw a female one! I've never seen a female one for sale before! Once my Sexy goes down the toilet(hopefully that day doesn't come soon, I love my Sexy) I am going to get an opaque one. I had a mino I caught from the lake in with him and he just looked at it funny and kept swimming, it eventually died since you can't keep mino's in captivity, they die quickly anyway. Anyways here's a pic of my Sexy:

And here's my sisters betta....Herman. He is blue and green, he is pretty big and is always getting mad at his reflection. My sister got him a pineapple betta bowl but it made him run out of oxygen and he nearly died!:eek: She put him back in his old bowl and he still is alittle woozy, she always has to poke him to see if he's alive!

I think a mouse or rat would be ideal, this is usually what our schools have, however I have often been a bit concerned about the care of School pets, IMO it has not been of a high standard in our schools, children volunteer to take the pets home on school holidays here, who knows how good they are at taking care of them, and too many of them have died.

I know you will take good care of the Pet, and I wish you well, its good to beable to teach children to be responsible at a young age for animals, some donot have that experience , so through the school they can, GOOD LUCK!!