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when i first saw him, his fins were gros like a washed out yucky brown, and his body was sooo pale but, he has RED eyes

i tried to get him to flair up at my choco butterfly male, but he just looked at him like "so what"

then i tried him on my aggressive ex-large male crowntail, pretty boy tried him hardest, but eventually got bored, because the new betta just sat there (and he was in there for a few hours too!)

then, my last try was on my females, still nothing!!! but he did sort of start to show some actuall color in his fins!!

so, i left him there all night, and all night he never flaired, so this morn i released him with the feales, and dovii swam right into the cup with him, but he just went up for air he swam out and them right before my eyes, he got DARK PINK FINS and as i watched him for quite a while, and then he kept changing color from dark to light and a few hours later i looked in, and he had a little body color purpley stripes, like a cambo, im in love! but i finally have a betta with a tiny bit of albino in him *jumps up and down*

It sounds like he is getting happier, give him a few days and i am sure he will react to other males and females, he just needs some strength (food) and rest! Awesome find!

Cooool!

nice find. from what i read about the original albino bettas, they dont see very well and depend on body contact.

Wow, lucky find. Where did you pick him up? Give him some time to begin feeling his cheerios and I am sure he'll be flaring with the best of them

AWESOME FIND!!! and if it wasn't for you know who right above me I wouldn't even be interested in bettasIt's all her fault that and I'm blaming our PPCD teacher for giving me my first one that she thought was being a bully by standing his ground against others, like MTS there should be a NMBS (need more bettas syndrom)

So when are you going to get some pics? I want to see pretty boy heidi


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I wanna see the shishie! *bounces around* Pwease?



Last edited by Kitten at 23-May-2005 18:22[/font]

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he is so hard to get a good photo of although he stays still but i saw him almost flair......at nothing he just stoppd beneth the drift wood, and puffed for like 2 secs, then swam along the bottom all glumy as usual im not sure whats up with him although i can deff tell he is almost blind he wims along the botom dragging his fins, he ran into the pile of mushy pellets, and took a bite, then he nibbeled a littel more, and moved off till he bumped into an algae wafer, and he sat on it, garding it, then a danio came and swiped out from under him, the silly betta dident know it and then tried to take another bite, and all he got was sand *busts out laughing*

Hmmm someone else mentioned a fish with red eyes being blind. Albinoism makes animals (and people) more sensitive to light, I wonder if an overexposure to light might cause blindness in albino or 'red eyed' bettas. even low light disturbs my brother's albino mice so I'm always careful to keep them in a dark space and my albino californian rabbit never ventured out of the enclosed area of the hutch during the day because of light sensitivity.
Albino bettas are supposed to have no colour pigment it's odd how yours displays colours, I really can't wait to see this ususual albino betta.

poor little guyblind and not knowing when his food is stolen from him

I just fed leslie's betta; valentino--he sinmply starred at the betta bites, but when I dropped in the pleco food he attacked:%)stupid fish, i swear he is so flipping stupid

try to get him some floating plants and maybe he'll be able to see a little better *shrug* maybe it is the brightness of the light that is glaring into his eyes...poor little guy...

by the way I agree I want to see pictures of the fishie as well heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle