"but he needs me!"

[soritan]

So, I've been extremely good about my 'collection', I think. I kept myself trained to only keep two. I clean their bowls like a properly trained human, feed them Hikari (which is actually almost the same price in Japan as it is here, however it was in fact $1 less, so I stocked up, regardless), and think of ways to make their lives a little less and a little more, if you know what I mean.

Out of habit, I go to the betta section at the lps, and give everyone the once over. I see the usual finrot most times in the veiltails, but oddly their crowntails are almost always pretty. i don't get it, but i keep going anyway and looking. I think I'd been harboring some secret desire to get a 3rd betta (or 11th), because I keep trying to force other people to get bettas so I can live through them vicariously.

On this last trip, the trip where I bought my moss ball, I saw a little shell pink veiltail that was so damn cute, I had to shut my eyes and about face. He naturally had finrot, like all the other veiltails (but not the crowntails! Racial profiling!), but he wasn't in bad shape, he was just a bit clampy, pink, and forlorn.

I don't suppose you all have a Betta-phile Anonymous, "Just say 'No'" program around here, do you?


Sorry if this post is irrelevent, I'm just trying to condition myself to a public atmosphere again, you know?

 

[SPLiSH]

Hehehe, Betta-Phile. I hope it's not illegal to be one of those or this whole forum will be arrested.

As long as you have the facilities and love, I don't see what's wrong with getting another betta or two... or ten.

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

I swear these little fish are worse then drugs! I started with
just 1 for a whole year, then got 4 more, then a few here
and there and now I'm up to 29! Bettas are like crack I tells ya!

 

[ManyFISH4Me]

Just a thought. Maybe the reason the Ct's always look good, is because they don't sit there as long. Veils are more common, and Ct's are new, and different in pet stores. So they sell quicker.

 

[soritan]

Just a thought. Maybe the reason the Ct's always look good, is because they don't sit there as long. Veils are more common, and Ct's are new, and different in pet stores. So they sell quicker.

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I agree that makes perfect sense, except that I am not in continguous United States, which means that all of our LPS's freight must come in from a single supplier (one betta supplier, who provides fancy old cts and abused little vts), on a single shipment. I *suspect* a lot of it is also, because their supplier has a good stock of cts, and a stock of vts who are prone to finrot.


And now, a poor segueue into my next topic:
I got a new betta today. I blame YOU, even though this whole forum was down for me during the entire first day I had him.

He reminds me of a fish wuv had up for adoption a few months back, which I pined for, and alas I was not able to receive. My employer sent me on an errand to pick up two bettas, since she knew I was into the fishies, and I walked in and looked at all their little vts, and all their backstock.

I wound up selecting 3 bettas (two vts who were insanely cute), and 1 ct... all of which I'd gladly sacrifice adult teeth for. I had a lot of fun selecting them, and paying company money for them. I took them back to the workplace, and forced my employer to select which two she wanted for 'us', and then I promptly bought the remaining one.

SO wrong of me. I know I shouldn't have done that. I *know* I shouldn't have done that, and I know I am not capable of taking care of more than 3 fish (fyi, i now have 3 fish). KYAAAAAh. Right. So, the 3 fish I selected were as follows: 1 standard blue veiltail, very healthy and active; 1 red/blue/butterfly crowntail; 1 white and black female or plakat... I'm not expert enough to tell the difference. He/she was really really cute, though. I'd have been pleased as punch to receive any one of them, and I figured I deserve a birthday present.

After a bit of quibbling, I wound up with the CT. YAY! wait, that "it" (male? female? plakat? girl?) was so cute

Congratulate me!
......I blame you.

 

[RandomWiktor]

::grins:: Welcome to Bettaholics Annonymous.

I've actually been on the road to recovery; I had a bad year with several fish developing tumors, and my favorite boy died at the all too young age of one year. It really messed with my head, and I'm too distraut and depressed over it to even consider getting more bettas any time soon. My remaining four are pampered to an embarassing degree in my dorn, and I watch them like hawks for any sign of illness, not that I could do anything about a tumor if I wanted to.

Though, my "sickness" may flare up again this July; my mom has promised to let me get a male plakat for my 10 gallon tank. I want to wait until I'm out of school so I can take the time to properly plant and cycle the tank, and get some indian almond leaf and live foods; I want this boy to be with me as long as possible.

Anyhoo, I'm blabbering. Congrats on the new fishes! You must post pics if you get the chance

 

[soritan]

::grins:: Welcome to Bettaholics Annonymous.

I've actually been on the road to recovery; I had a bad year with several fish developing tumors, and my favorite boy died at the all too young age of one year. It really messed with my head, and I'm too distraut and depressed over it to even consider getting more bettas any time soon. My remaining four are pampered to an embarassing degree in my dorn, and I watch them like hawks for any sign of illness, not that I could do anything about a tumor if I wanted to.

Though, my "sickness" may flare up again this July; my mom has promised to let me get a male plakat for my 10 gallon tank. I want to wait until I'm out of school so I can take the time to properly plant and cycle the tank, and get some indian almond leaf and live foods; I want this boy to be with me as long as possible.

Anyhoo, I'm blabbering. Congrats on the new fishes! You must post pics if you get the chance

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Sorry to hear about your fish. I've come to the arbitrary conclusion that 2 is the perfect number of bettas for me to keep. Naturally, I now have three. )

I brought him home and put him in one of my 1.25G bowls with a moss ball, and he clamped up and hid behind the moss ball. Cute.

I put in a bit of creeping charlie and now he's swimming about a bit more freely and flarling at my other bettas and bubble nesting. I think he's the first healthy betta I've ever bought. I hope I can keep him that way.

I'll see about getting some half decent pics in the near future. I always have the most damnable time getting pics of these guys, even in a 1.25G bowl.

http/photobucket.com/albums/y144/sori-tan/

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

*The sickness spreads * Yay we love bettas!

 

[soritan]

Now I am actually debating giving him to a friend, who wanted an 'office betta', before I get too attached to him. I tend to believe (somewhat falliciously, er, very falliciously, I know), that it's easier to keep bettas in doubles. Right now I'm doing some kind of complex betta bowl juggling act that seems beyond my ability to maintain.

I find myself thinking, "I should get one of those cute little girls, or give one of my boys up."

what a long, slippery slope.

 

[SPLiSH]

Aaaw don't give the lil' guy up, he's gorgeous! If you like keeping bettas in twos, get another one and then have two lots of two!

 

[soritan]

aaaaah, don't encourage me. i think it's too late to 'save me', anyhow. i'll probably make her get her own and 'help her' select it on her own. i simply though briefly and wistfully of freedom.

i just need more bowls now.