GloFish Companions

Had a customer come into the store to buy a globetta.

Which apparently...it was like their fourth betta they were looking to buy?

Because they bought two.
One died.
Bought another one.
Then one died. 

So they'd come in to get a replacement one.....

Though I stopped the customer before they bought that fourth one. 

Why?
Because bettas aren't supposed to go into the same tank together.

*exhales* The customer didn't realize that.

Like they were buying female bettas...which those can occasionally go together.

But we usually recommend it being in a bigger tank. Like a 10 gallon tank.
And the customer only had a 3 gallon tank.

So probably too small of a space to have the two girl bettas in together.

And I tried to recommend that the customer just leave the surviving betta in the tank by herself as she would be fine like that.

Customer wasn't buying it though. 
I think it was because they may have had more than one kid and wanted to have one fish for each kid?

In any case. They began asking which other fish the bettas could go with. 

Which there are other fish bettas can go with...in bigger tanks.

The customer only had a 3 gallon tank.

And the other fish they were interested in were schooling fish. That like to have friends.
And placing more than like 2 fish in a 3 gallon tank....isn't a good thing.
More than likely the fish would die until there were two left.

Customer seemed entirely set on having another fish. No matter what.
Another glofish specifically.
As I did try to show them smaller fish that could do better in the smaller tanks (as they stay smaller)

But nope.
It was glofish or glofish.

*exhales*

They ended up getting two glo-tetras.
Though I am predicting one of them will die.
As I doubt having three fish in a 3 gallon tank will work out. 
Guess we'll see. 

-Sarnic Dirchi