jmejemima
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Hello, everyone!
This is my first post...bear with me.
My name is Jamie and I am (already) a Bettaholic. It has been 8 days since I purchased my first Betta (actually 2), and I'm up to 5.
Ok, to start. I've personally never had Bettas. My mom had one at her office in a 5 gallon tank and she had him for 2 years. His name was Dave.
Anyway, I've had a couple of 10 gallon community tanks for several years, mostly mollies and lately platies. I've even successfully raised one platy fry from birth to. . . well, I think he's a year old now!! So, there's one 10 gallon in the kitchen/dining room and there's one in my bedroom. The one in my bedroom had 4 platies in it and for various reasons over the past 2 months, they all one by one died, and I never bothered to replace them as they were dying off. So once the tank was empty, I went to
Wal-mart and was going to get a goldfish or two and just have those for a while. But of course, when you go looking for something they have like a total of 4 to choose from, and I didn't like any of them (I'm a big fan of the fancy calicos, and they had none of those).
So I happened to stroll by the Bettas (which I always do). (Sidenote: the Walmarts around here all have the bigger cups, the ones with white lid, preprinted with Male Betta and the SKU #). Anyway, as I peruse the Bettas, one cup caught my eye, and I had to do a double-, triple-, and quadruple-take. Two Bettas in one cup!
Both were still alive, though it was obvious that one was the winner and the other was not. So in the cart they went. I knew that I could house the two in the 10G tank because I have a breeding basket (the net type) from Platy fry days.
(Sidenote 2: There was no one working in the pet section at that time, so my thoughts are that there were some punk-@$$ teenagers that dumped the two together
)
So here are my Bettas! (Finally I get to the point)
(Also if anyone can tell me anything about the colors (or the proper name for the color) of each, I would appreciate it!!!!
Merlin
The poor beat up fellow. I really didn't expect him to make it, but its been 8 days and he seems well. He's not as active as the rest but he eats like a pig and I even got him to flare once!! I've been treating him with Melafix (which I read now to dilute, so I've started that). I originally had him in the basket until he could hold himself straight, he spent the first 2 days nose down in the corner of the basket. Now hes in a 1G tank all to himself. Aside from the lack of fins, his head/gills were pretty beat up (now they aren't as bloody looking) and I think that he has a pop-eye, though I'm not really sure what that looks like and I tried to get a picture, but never could. Any suggestions for that? (Excuse my thumb in the photo!)
Royal
This is the guy that was in the same cup as Merlin. Haven't had a problem with this guy. He is one of the most aggressive of the bunch. Now he's in the 10G tank (3 Bettas in there, but they are all separated) I've got it divided with a standard plastic divider type thing and then on one side I have a hard plastic breeding thing...but not the small ones, this ones pretty good sized with the flow through holes on the bottom. I've been rotating Royal and one of the others in and out of this divider. They seem happy...Bubblenests and all
He's the hardest one to photo....the lights were boucing around to much on him, but finally got these!
Royal flaring...he's in the very back of the tank here, that's why its so dark... (I guess anyway)
The next 3 Bettas I got a few days after the first 2 (along with more tanks!)
Rogue
Rogue is the least photogenic, he saw the camera and promptly swam to the back of his tank! Silly, finally got this one, but its a little dark. He came from Petsmart where all of their Bettas looked healthy but they were in the smaller cups. Rogue just caught my eye. He's in a 1G tank now, sitting next to Merlin's.
Johnny
Johnny also came from Petsmart. He was so cute in his cup, flaring away at everything that moved! He's also very photogenic, loves to come up and pose for me! He's in the 10G on the divided side with Royal (they get switched in and out of the smaller divider)
He has this spot on his head...is it part of his coloring? It hasn't changed any since I got him, so I guess that it's part of him. Is that called something in particular?
Terk
Finally, Terk. He came from another Walmart (not the same one as Merlin and Royal). He's in the 10G in the other half from Royal and Johnny. This guy has been building a huge bubblenest since the 2nd day home! Also had a hard time getting his picture, but this one I really liked!
I think its neat the way his body made the air bubbles purple!
And one from the side...
Here's one of my 10G tank, set up with all 3 in there. . . So you can get an idea for the size of that basket deal.
Thats Johnny on the left, with Royal in the smaller part. And Terk is on the right. The divider thing is about 5 inches deep (from front to back, not top to bottom) and there's a spacer where it hits the tank side so that another fish can actually swim all the way around it.
Anyway, sorry to ramble so, but wanted to post!
Please, if you can tell me anything about any of them, please do!
This is my first post...bear with me.
My name is Jamie and I am (already) a Bettaholic. It has been 8 days since I purchased my first Betta (actually 2), and I'm up to 5.
Ok, to start. I've personally never had Bettas. My mom had one at her office in a 5 gallon tank and she had him for 2 years. His name was Dave.
Anyway, I've had a couple of 10 gallon community tanks for several years, mostly mollies and lately platies. I've even successfully raised one platy fry from birth to. . . well, I think he's a year old now!! So, there's one 10 gallon in the kitchen/dining room and there's one in my bedroom. The one in my bedroom had 4 platies in it and for various reasons over the past 2 months, they all one by one died, and I never bothered to replace them as they were dying off. So once the tank was empty, I went to
Wal-mart and was going to get a goldfish or two and just have those for a while. But of course, when you go looking for something they have like a total of 4 to choose from, and I didn't like any of them (I'm a big fan of the fancy calicos, and they had none of those). So I happened to stroll by the Bettas (which I always do). (Sidenote: the Walmarts around here all have the bigger cups, the ones with white lid, preprinted with Male Betta and the SKU #). Anyway, as I peruse the Bettas, one cup caught my eye, and I had to do a double-, triple-, and quadruple-take. Two Bettas in one cup!
Both were still alive, though it was obvious that one was the winner and the other was not. So in the cart they went. I knew that I could house the two in the 10G tank because I have a breeding basket (the net type) from Platy fry days.
(Sidenote 2: There was no one working in the pet section at that time, so my thoughts are that there were some punk-@$$ teenagers that dumped the two together
)So here are my Bettas! (Finally I get to the point)
(Also if anyone can tell me anything about the colors (or the proper name for the color) of each, I would appreciate it!!!!
Merlin
The poor beat up fellow. I really didn't expect him to make it, but its been 8 days and he seems well. He's not as active as the rest but he eats like a pig and I even got him to flare once!! I've been treating him with Melafix (which I read now to dilute, so I've started that). I originally had him in the basket until he could hold himself straight, he spent the first 2 days nose down in the corner of the basket. Now hes in a 1G tank all to himself. Aside from the lack of fins, his head/gills were pretty beat up (now they aren't as bloody looking) and I think that he has a pop-eye, though I'm not really sure what that looks like and I tried to get a picture, but never could. Any suggestions for that? (Excuse my thumb in the photo!)
Royal
This is the guy that was in the same cup as Merlin. Haven't had a problem with this guy. He is one of the most aggressive of the bunch. Now he's in the 10G tank (3 Bettas in there, but they are all separated) I've got it divided with a standard plastic divider type thing and then on one side I have a hard plastic breeding thing...but not the small ones, this ones pretty good sized with the flow through holes on the bottom. I've been rotating Royal and one of the others in and out of this divider. They seem happy...Bubblenests and all
He's the hardest one to photo....the lights were boucing around to much on him, but finally got these!
Royal flaring...he's in the very back of the tank here, that's why its so dark... (I guess anyway)
The next 3 Bettas I got a few days after the first 2 (along with more tanks!)
Rogue
Rogue is the least photogenic, he saw the camera and promptly swam to the back of his tank! Silly, finally got this one, but its a little dark. He came from Petsmart where all of their Bettas looked healthy but they were in the smaller cups. Rogue just caught my eye. He's in a 1G tank now, sitting next to Merlin's.
Johnny
Johnny also came from Petsmart. He was so cute in his cup, flaring away at everything that moved! He's also very photogenic, loves to come up and pose for me! He's in the 10G on the divided side with Royal (they get switched in and out of the smaller divider)
He has this spot on his head...is it part of his coloring? It hasn't changed any since I got him, so I guess that it's part of him. Is that called something in particular?
Terk
Finally, Terk. He came from another Walmart (not the same one as Merlin and Royal). He's in the 10G in the other half from Royal and Johnny. This guy has been building a huge bubblenest since the 2nd day home! Also had a hard time getting his picture, but this one I really liked!
I think its neat the way his body made the air bubbles purple!
And one from the side...
Here's one of my 10G tank, set up with all 3 in there. . . So you can get an idea for the size of that basket deal.
Thats Johnny on the left, with Royal in the smaller part. And Terk is on the right. The divider thing is about 5 inches deep (from front to back, not top to bottom) and there's a spacer where it hits the tank side so that another fish can actually swim all the way around it.
Anyway, sorry to ramble so, but wanted to post!
Please, if you can tell me anything about any of them, please do!
) he's gorgeous
They are all adorable. I started out like you about a year ago, and I am up to 14 with no more room, actually no more room about 4 tanks ago!! 
Glad you got to your guys in time. 
unless I make some...lol
