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Another helpful tip: Get your additional bettas from a breeder. It's ever so much easier to breed young, healthy 3 month old bettas than it is to breed decrepit, travel-worn shop bettas. Blackwater Bettas on facebook have some drop dead gorgeous bettas for sale. :)

nylon hose -- check! :) Not that had had fins to begin with.   Awww, I found it on a low light plant list. :( How disappointing. I just love how it looks all carpeted across the ground in the tanks I saw.   I didn't know Anubis needed its roots free. What do I Tie it with that won't hurt George? :)

I'm not sure if anyone remembers, but about a month ago I brought home a sick betta named George. George has turned out to have the biggest personality of any of the bettas in my house, and I mentioned plans to get him a more permanent set-up among one of my last posts on that old thread. I...

Whisper -- I'm actually running some experiments on my bettas right now to really try and nail down the things that they like and don't like. Would you mind PMing me with some details on your past bettas? Anything helps. How long they've lived, how often they got sick, what additionally you did...

It looks like he's got a little red wash (or some darker pigment) running through his fins, but I don't see anything beyond normal color.

I just read that online. Eeep! I'll make a seperate tank for that one. I'm really glad I posted now.

Wonderful! I'm so looking forward to seeing your new fish and setup. :)

It's great that you're doing research before breeding. Good job! :)   I'm afraid if you tried breeding with your current set-up, you're going to be a bit disappointed. The fry need room to grow. What's fine for a single adult male is not so fine for hundreds of baby fish. You might be...

These 4 are it for that tank. They're in a 30 gallon together. I'll look up Auratus and start there :)

It sounds like dropsy. :-/ Here's a couple of links I read:   http://www.bettafishguru.com/dir/betta-fish-dropsy.php   http://www.bettafishcenter.com/Dropsy.shtml

My husband got 4 "Assorted" cichlids. I mostly just leave his tanks alone, but I'm curious to know what these are:     Edited to add: They like rocks a lot. I don't know if that helps. They build whole cities underneath the rocks with tunnels and everything. I had to take the rocks out just to...

I've had no luck at all with floating plants. :( I've tried both Java Fern and something else...can't remember what it's called...somethingwart. They both turned to mush in just a couple days.

I have one betta who loves being with guppies. He never nips them and they don't nip him. He doesn't like any other sort of fish, just guppies. I've never had another betta that got along with guppies, and I've had quite a few.

How scary They came with the tank or I wouldn't have added them. I'll pull them out right away.   As for the store: Company policy is that they can't sell a sick animal---only adopt it out. You have to sign a little paper saying you won't try and return the fish and get your money back if it...

George is getting more beautiful by the day. Every time I think he's gotten all the color he's going to get, he goes and pops a bit more red, or blue, or yellow. He's far more magnificent than even when I first saw him, and such an easy keeper! All my other bettas are super picky about what he...