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Well, this morning I checked on Lucky, whose temporary home is next door to BadBoy (seperate "tank", when I removed the towel, I use to cover them up at night. Lucky flies across his small tank and flairs up at BadBoy, who in turn flairs up at Lucky...Lucky sees the size of BadBoy flairing and takes off and hides in the clay pot I put in his tank with the Anarcharisso when I left the house I made sure to put a fish magazine between them, as I don't want them stressing out over being close to each other

Well, anyways I treated him with a small amount of Melafix last night, and gave him some Betta Kibble, that he stared at like it was foreign. This morning he was a brilliant red, and just happy as can be, though he still didn't want to eat the kibble, but the flakes disappeared in a heart beat

So he is doing great today. Today I'm gonna go ahead and get a 10 gallon tank, and am currently making dividers so I can put 2 bettas in the tank--Heidi

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

I dunno why things turn colors. I find that teal shows up a lot in fish pictures... I have a [link=WHITE]http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Advanced%20Betta%20Care/56505.html" style="COLOR: #9900FF[/link] betta with precious little blue on him at all, but he shines aqua/teal in pictures. If you look there, the only color he has on him is his gill flare and that bit of color at the base of his tail... how does the camera find that pale teal color?! *smacks camera*

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

and the two boys together Kelpiey and Surprise...



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

OK a couple new pictures of Surprise...now in his new half of the tank...



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

well, that one there, although short tailed, is unlikely to be entirely genetically splendens. it looks far 'snakier' than even wild splendens are, and very very tiny!

I have a pair very similar to that boy, and i'm still undecided as to type/species. They are from the splendens group, of all the species in that group, they look mostly like betta splendens, but size and colouring and movement just aren't quite right *sigh*

Anyway, there is an interesting page on Plakat fighter types.

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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Is it just me or does the "plakat" have a more elongated body than most splendens? It almost reminds me more of a wild type (I forget which one has that elongated body). I dunno, just a thought. Just doesn't look quite "right" to me.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

lucky looks very much like 2 female i had a year ago but sadly one got cotton wool, and the other jumped while being treated as a preventitive to cotton wool and i have 2 females, a brilliant steel blue CT, a light pink marble(possibly halfmoon), and a darker pink cambo (viel). dovii(the marble)and is queen of the tank and she struts her stuff, flairs at the other females, and the little steel blue CT is on the bottom, usually has stress stripes, but divii is a gental leader and is just like a loving pussy cat she lets me pet her, and rubs against be too and just the other day she gave me a fishy kiss but she wont eat tubifex worms unless i hand feed her, and she grabs a mouth full and shakes like crazy, then spits it out for the other fish when there is a little left then she takes them for herself


but the CT's stripes look just like luckys, and the 2 females from before had them to, look identical to lucky, but i could be wrong

And one more, just keep in mind the torquoise should be dark blue, help? By the way this is the best flairing I could get him to do, mirror on one side GoFish on the other...he had no choice...silly betta



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sorry for the fuzziness...sometimes I really need a tripod to hold still

It just occured to me that I mentioned Surprise at the top of this post but have yet to post his picturez)

He seems to be a chicken little, and won't flaire at anything at all...but his new home will be ready for him tonight, so maybe that will help...

Now if someone could help me figure out why he appears so torquoise in the pictures, while in life he is a beautiful blue, i'd appreciate it:%)heidi



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just thought I'd update everyone on Lucky...He is doing fine, and flaires up as much as his little body can at BadBoy when the divider isn't thereof course then he runs and hidesz) Now he seems to be the most brilliant red, and just and mobile as anything...



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I have a female that flairs at my males, so flaring doesn't always mean MALE!! If she is running, she may be a female. Just watch for her to puff up and have the little white spot under her belly. If so, then all signs point to female.

Anyway, YAY for lucky and YAY for heidi

~Jorge

Let's see, 10g tank, filter, gravel, heater, airpump...Heidi said it was all my fault that she's got bettas and just spend a small fortune for two $3.47 fish..] I knew it was only a matter of time before bettas wormed their way into her heart.

Good to hear he is looking better, flaring and eating is a very good sign. He should take the pellet food soon, sometimes they get used to one type of food and get a bit picky. Garlic is an appetite stimulant in fish (sounds a bit loopy, but it works) so if you have some fresh garlic around, just rub the food with a cut clove of it. An extra benefit of garlic is that it is believed to kill some parasites (used by some to treat hexamita in discus). I use garlic on my fish food quite a bit, and hikari actually has it listed on the ingredient list in their betta bio gold. Once he gets used to the different shape of the pellets, he should accept them and you can stop using the garlic. I prefer floating pellets in betta bowls especially because they are not cycled, and uneaten pellet is a lot easier to fish out than spare flakes.

Yay Lucky /:'

Hello folks, not long ago, about a month or so I got my first betta, BadBoy. Well, tonight Leslie, Sheila, and I went to Wal-Mart. We split up the list, and I took off to get my half of the list. Well, I had to make a stop by the fist section on the way to the register, and well...I looked at each of the bettas they had, and took a stroll through the tanks where I saw what looked like death row to several bettas. This didn't surprise me as I too have placed a dead betta cup there myself. Well, these cups looked pretty bad, but I noticed that the bettas were still moving kind ofSo I dumped the water out of the cups and gave each a full water transfer (2x) I figured it wouldn't hurt them if I did it. Right Well, after I was finished I started looking back through the bettas I just saved, and noticed 2 that just really took me...Both are marked as males, and one I of them I believe it as he looks like your typical Veil Tail "Surprise". But looking at "Lucky" I first thought "Oh what a pretty little girl" it wasn't till I showed Leslie, and had already paid for both (just couldn't bare to leave either after the water change, and falling instantly in love with them that I began thinking that this isn't a female, but not the typical long tailed male...

So folks what kind of a Betta is Lucky? I do love it, as it is different. Could it go in my 125? (Neon Tetras, Emperor Tetras, Dainty Corries, metae Corries, currently) If not no biggy, I've got a plan going on in my mind, just gotta get busy and do it...

Heidi



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

Muuaaahawhawhaaaaaaaaaaa I have gotten Heidi to turn to the betta side!

I've had one very sick male go stripey....I have also seen it in males at the lfs in poor shape...for some reason they have all been reddish coloured, so maybe it has something to do with that.

I also use melafix with bettas, all the time, never had any problems at all. I used it on a very small female with ich, that male that was stripey, and a lot of other bettas that had minor fin melt and other issues. IME at least, bettas and melafix are absolutely fine. I use it full strength and possibly even overdose it sometimes because I've never seen any nasty reactions and I have very shakey hands some days.

EDIT: I also used full dose with my coccina because they were pretty beat up when I got them....no reaction at all. IMO if the coccina can take it it's fine for splendens. *shrugs with kitten*

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Shannen... never had any issues whatsoever with melafix and bettas and I use it all the time for nipped fins, minor fin rot, etc. I would think that maybe there was something else wrong with that poor girl if she faded so quickly...

Heidi - Good job! I wish I had the guts to do that sometimes... if I knew where the idiots at Walmart kept the dechlor and such, I'd probably clean the cups the same way you did! (I can just see myself going in everyday... )

I have no idea on the identity of your lil friend there, but I can only offer my experience that I've never seen a male splendens go stripey. My girls do it when they're startled, but I've NEVER seen one of my boys stripe up. *shrugs*

Even after one of mine threw his idiot self into the kitchen sink during a water change and I JUST managed to save him from going down the drain! If that's not stress, I don't know what is. Well, it certainly was on MY part, anyway.

I, too, would QT Lucky before adding to your community tank. I wonder if he'll color up or stay stripey? Interesting... I'd love to see followup pics.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

be careful with the Melafix. Use betta max if at all possible. As I watched a 60 dolor female fade fast and die after dosing half dose of Melafix I do not recommend it for bettas.

Lucky looks like one very stressed out male plakat. I would keep him in QT for a few weeks at least before he goes in the 125. I may just be paranoid but that looks like a bit of redness around the edge of his gill plate (not surprising if he was sitting in ammonia ) and those horizontal bars are a very good indication that he isn't feeling so great in general. Keep an eye on him, give him clean water, and dose some melafix and salt for possible ammonia burns if you feel he needs it. He should colour up soon, and once he does I'm sure he'll be very handsome.

As long as it's not very aggressive it will do fine with your stock in the 125. Keep an eye on him after you let him loose in the tank.


Very pretty betta Heidi!