Amun And Jasper

[bassbonediva]

Hi all! I have two betta boys that just got new tank upgrades today. I currently have four male bettas total, two veiltails, one crowntail and one halfmoon. The crowntail, Jasper, and the halfmoon, Amun, are the two that got the upgrades.

Amun moved from an acrylic 6 gallon flat-back hex tank to a glass 10gal tank. All his Egyptian-themed decorations and the custom background my friend and I drew for him moved with him. Unfortunately, the cool play sand/metallic gold sand mix that was the substrate in his 6gal FBH was not usable in the 10gal (it lost all its shine), so he got leftover brown gravel from when I redid my other 10gal (which is divided in half for my two veiltails). Anyway, here's Amun's tank (sorry, kinda "meh" daylight pic...will get better ones tonight)...

I will also get a pic of Amun himself tonight. I had pics of him in my old Photobucket account, but I can't access that account and they were cell phone photos (and I don't have the cell phone that took them anymore). Amun is a purple/red halfmoon (purple body with red fins) who USED to be a butterfly, but his white turned to black. lol

Jasper moved from a 5 gallon bowfront tank to a long 9gal steel-rimmed tank I got at Goodwill for $1! None of his plants moved with him (having issues with the filter in that tank and he was only in there temporarily anyway), but he did get a nice new sword plant. His tank is decorated with a Grecian theme (using decorations and black gravel/red Flourite substrate I pirated out of my 18gal tall that is about to be torn down and sold anyway). So, here's Jasper's tank, along with a couple pics of Jasper himself...

Jasper's tank needs a black background on it, but I was also thinking of maybe drawing a custom background for it (similar to what I did with Amun's tank)...thoughts?

 

[zophie]

Love 'ya tanks, and 'ya betta's I really like the theames, and Jasper is so beutiful.... He remindes me just of my new betta, Jewel Cool idea about drawing the background... you could do something that sticks with the greek theame, like lightning bolts, or greek gods, or mount olympus...

Zophie

 

[rlhirth]

wow my dad still has 2 of the metal 10 gallons in his basement from when he was a kid!!! i always wanted to steal one but being around 30 to 40 years old i dont really trust the seals!!! its amazing you found one in such good condition!!!!

 

[Gizaroo2]

Nice tanks . Beautiful fish!

 

[bassbonediva]

Thanks, guys!

I was worried about Amun for a while 'cuz he was hiding and not eating, but it turned out that he was just upset about the current from the filter in his tank (his old tank had just a small sponge filter, while the new tank has an HOB filter). He apparently realized that I'm not going to cater to his prima donna attitude and he's out swimming around and eating again. Brat.

Jasper's tank had a mishap the other day. Came home to find his light fixture half in the tank (you can see it was suspended by black electrical tape over the top of the tank, which I know isn't the greatest, but it was just supposed to be until today when I could get some wood shims from my dad to suspend it more securely). Luckily Jasper wasn't hurt, but half the fixture isn't working now (it's one of those dual regular socket fixtures). Thankfully my friend's dad is an electrician, so he should be able to fix it for me.