Well, instead of posting a new topic every time something new and interesting happens to my bettas, I decided to start a journal-type thing to record all the interesting stuff.
First, a short introduction... I am a sophomore college student who recently got back into keeping bettas properly after I started researching a planted tank for my first dorm fish. I have three bettas at the moment- Severus, a weirdly colored pink/peach/heck-if-I-know Halfmoon male; Steel, a young dark-grey-and-red Halfmoon male with metallic silver streaks in his tail; and the newest addition, Shy Guy, a white (but seems to be changing colors a little...) doubletail Halfmoon male.
The pictures of each fish and their tanks:
Severus lives in a medium-planted, filtered, low-tech 5 gallon upstairs. He shares his tank with 3 ghost shrimp (Peeves, the Grey Lady, and the Bloody Baron), and most recently, a pair of Dwarf Frogs (who are as of yet unnamed.) There's been a little nipping and chasing, mostly of the shrimp, but overall everyone seems alright so far.
The current plants in the aquarium are Anubias, Crested Java Fern, Micro Sword, and Water Wisteria. The wisteria has grown a LOT since this picture was taken a couple weeks ago- it was actually starting to grow out of the water, so I pinched off the tops and replanted them.
A very out of focus picture of Severus.
Steel lives in a heated, planted 2.5 gallon downstairs.
It currently contains water wisteria and a moss ball. It used to have hornwort, but I got tired of cleaning up fallen needles and moved it to the little critter keeper I have two baby snails (one pond snail, one unknown) in, just for fun. The other plants are silk.
A picture of Steel doing his best ostrich impression- you can see the metallic streaks in his tail here. He's very outgoing and active, and ate out of my hands the very first day I brought him home.
Shy Guy is the newest addition. He lives in a 1.75 gallon bowl, the largest I could find, with a live Anubias plant.
As his name suggests, SG is very shy- it took him several days to begin eating and you can nearly always find him under his bridge or lurking in his plant. Today during water changes I moved his and Steel's tanks close together- Shy Guy immediately started flaring and going crazy. Steel was like "dude... what are you fussing about?" and utterly unaffected.
His fins are curled at the ends, which I'm assuming was from dirty water in his pet store cup. I'm hoping it will clear up with time and clean water.
So, yeah, those are my bettas. I'll post new and interesting things that happen here, and any entertaining pictures I may happen to take.
First, a short introduction... I am a sophomore college student who recently got back into keeping bettas properly after I started researching a planted tank for my first dorm fish. I have three bettas at the moment- Severus, a weirdly colored pink/peach/heck-if-I-know Halfmoon male; Steel, a young dark-grey-and-red Halfmoon male with metallic silver streaks in his tail; and the newest addition, Shy Guy, a white (but seems to be changing colors a little...) doubletail Halfmoon male.
The pictures of each fish and their tanks:
Severus lives in a medium-planted, filtered, low-tech 5 gallon upstairs. He shares his tank with 3 ghost shrimp (Peeves, the Grey Lady, and the Bloody Baron), and most recently, a pair of Dwarf Frogs (who are as of yet unnamed.) There's been a little nipping and chasing, mostly of the shrimp, but overall everyone seems alright so far.
The current plants in the aquarium are Anubias, Crested Java Fern, Micro Sword, and Water Wisteria. The wisteria has grown a LOT since this picture was taken a couple weeks ago- it was actually starting to grow out of the water, so I pinched off the tops and replanted them.
A very out of focus picture of Severus.
Steel lives in a heated, planted 2.5 gallon downstairs.
It currently contains water wisteria and a moss ball. It used to have hornwort, but I got tired of cleaning up fallen needles and moved it to the little critter keeper I have two baby snails (one pond snail, one unknown) in, just for fun.
The other plants are silk.
A picture of Steel doing his best ostrich impression- you can see the metallic streaks in his tail here. He's very outgoing and active, and ate out of my hands the very first day I brought him home.
Shy Guy is the newest addition. He lives in a 1.75 gallon bowl, the largest I could find, with a live Anubias plant.
As his name suggests, SG is very shy- it took him several days to begin eating and you can nearly always find him under his bridge or lurking in his plant. Today during water changes I moved his and Steel's tanks close together- Shy Guy immediately started flaring and going crazy. Steel was like "dude... what are you fussing about?" and utterly unaffected.
His fins are curled at the ends, which I'm assuming was from dirty water in his pet store cup. I'm hoping it will clear up with time and clean water. So, yeah, those are my bettas. I'll post new and interesting things that happen here, and any entertaining pictures I may happen to take.
And yes, I've checked his front feet- they are webbed. He is a true Dwarf frog, not a Clawed frog. Just a spectacularly evil one. 
Sort of a bittersweet ending. 
I'll be sure to get pictures later- she's gorgeous! I've decided to call her Sparky.
She hasn't eaten since I got her, so I'm glad she ate so much. And I'm glad to have found a free treat for my babies! 
Needless to say, a 100% water change immediately followed. He perked up as soon as the water was changed. My theory is that the bacteria in the filter died, causing a huge ammonia spike. 
I'm just letting the filter dry out now since the cycle was just beginning. 
