Couldnt Resist When At Pet Shop

[bettanoob]

Went to the pet shop to get some new led lights and walked out with a few female's they have such beautiful colours in the shop and i couldnt resist ill get some pictures up whent hey settle they seem a little stressed from the journey at the min

 

[lilfishie]

look forward to seeing them

 

[bettanoob]

porr things got horizontal bars atm one of them was showing vertical when i put them in i got all excited lol just hope there bars disapeer soon so i can show them off

 

[bettanoob]

ok betta been home a few hours now there colours are starting to show on 2 of them the other 2 are still pale and striped and one of them seem to be resting close to the floor 9 or at least i hope she is resting) trying to sort out pics now (may be a while not uploaded pics to a forum before lol)

 

[bettanoob]

http://[IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd476/Craig_Pendlington/739b87af.jpg[/IMG]

this is the one and how she is on the bottom of the tank is this normal?

 

[bettanoob]

and the stripes and pale look

 

[Juggler75]

I'd keep a close eye on water readings to give her best chance as we lost a male who dropped to the bottom for a couple of days. Which shop did you find them craig?

 

[bettanoob]

One Not so close to mine Aqualand (blaydon) they were all happy swimming around when I got them an tanks were all clean and no floaters about (it's always a good place to get stuff I travel some distance to go there)

 

[sausagewinkle]

I wouldn't worry about the stress stripes too much, but keep a eye on the one on the bottom. Like mentioned check your water stats if its a new tank.
can't have any other fish going in there gettin poorly

 

[bettanoob]

they seem pretty ok this morning but there colours/stripes are coming and going they seemt o be getting on well together and with the other fishies only thing i noticed was when one of the females tried to scare a peppered corry and he simply bulldozed her but all was ok after no agression lol the water stats are looking pretty normal will get another test done tonight to keep a close eye on them

 

[sausagewinkle]

I have 3 females who always get stress stripes

 

[Juggler75]

Could try more plants, real or silk to provide extra cover, might make them feel more secure

 

[lilfishie]

i have 2 that are almost consantly showing stress stripes, they are the least dominant of the group

 

[fuzzynicki]

Hope the girl on the bottom is improved today. Lots of plants gives them lots of hidey holes so that they can mark out their own little bit of territory so that's always good Hopefully they'll all be swimming around happily in no time!