<p>I want to have a betta fish in my dorm at college (already checked housing policy and they're allowed where I'm going), but since my school is pretty far from where I live, I'm going to be flying down- does anyone have any experience with bringing fish to and from school on airplanes? I called up the airline that I am flying on and they weren't sure because of the whole liquid thing. If I have to I could just buy another one when I get down there but I'd prefer to keep the one I have now if I can. Thanks for any input!</p>
<p>Maybe you can ask your roommate to take care of your fish while your gone. Also, fish can go two weeks without eating so that might come to your advantage. Here’s a useful link. All about beta fish.</p>
<p><a href=“http://bettatalk.com/food.htm[/url]”>http://bettatalk.com/food.htm</a></p>
<p>That might work actually, my roommates all live pretty close to school so I could ask them if they could for winter break or things like that, thanks :)</p>
<p>Most fish don’t travel well…you are better off buying locally and leaving with local friends. Many fish die from trauma of being moved.</p>
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<p>Bringing fish on an airplane? Sorry, never heard of anyone doing that!</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel like fish should not go on an airplane…though I’m sure someone has done it.</p>
<p>Mine travels in a mason jar, however I’ve never taken him on a plane.</p>
<p>Don’t they have something that you can put in the fish tank and it will feed the fish for a couple weeks? My friend had something like that, it looked kinda like a bar of soap.</p>
<p>Taking it on a plane might be a little difficult though.</p>
<p>I run a pet store. You should see how they come to us – absolutely less than 3 oz of water – like a baby food jar. (How big <em>are</em> baby food jars anyway?) But as noted above, they don’t take stress, such as travel, well. </p>
<p>When we sell Bettas we say “If they live through the first week with the stress of changing environments, they tend to live forever. Forever, in this case, is 1-2 years.”</p>
<p>You might be better off to find home-Betta a new caregiver, and then find a new Betta for college.</p>
<p>I can answer the air transport question. You cannot take over three ounces of any liquid (including water) in your carry-on items. Technically, you can pack the fish in your checked baggage, but I don’t recommend doing so if you value your fish’s life.</p>
<p>Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! I hope you can come up with a solution to your problem.</p>
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Oh, wow, no way should fish be in checked baggage! The way they treat your checked baggage at an airport, the fish wouldn’t live!!!</p>
<p>Thanks for your help everyone! I guess maybe I will try bringing him to the airport in a 3 oz container and hope for the best- if they do end up not allowing it on the flight I can always give it to one of my parents for their offices, but worth a shot! I read some stuff online about how they used to transport them by boat in asia and it sounds like bettas are pretty tough as far as that goes- I think somewhere even said they can go for 2 weeks in a bag of water, so 2 hours on a plane will hopefully be fine :)</p>