New Betta, New Aquarium

[Nightfall]

So, after embarking on a quest to heavily plant my Gourami tank, it kind of got to the point where my poor, intelligence-challenged Gourami couldn't find the food amidst the plants. My Cambodian (and apparently gender-confused) Betta Alexander was also somewhat overplanted. The obvious solution? Clearly I needed to buy a new aquarium. What to put in this new aquarium? Some snails and tiny catfish or loaches? Nope, obviously I needed another Betta.

I wound up buying an AquaOne 320 (which I think is about 7 gallons/29 litres) and one royal blue dragon Betta. I just had to name him Hephaestion.

Here's Hephaestion:

And here's Alexander, because he never got an introduction:

Alexander's photos make it look like he's next to another fish and he lives in a bowl, but that's just because I'm actually taking photos of his reflection in a round mirror, since it showed his colours far more accurately. For some reason all the pictures of him I took directly were blurred and made him look red, but the mirror photos capture him fairly clearly and accurately show his colouring. All I have to take photos with right now is my iphone and it's dreadful, so I'm sorry the pictures aren't better.

You can't see it that well in the pictures, but Heph's fins are blue/green and yellow, I think he might have some Mustard Gas in him. I always bred MG to MG so I'm not sure how the gene works with only one MG parent.

 

[Meggie :)]

Buying a new aquarium is always the best solution to everything!

They are very pretty boys! Bettas probably have to be my favorite species

 

[Nightfall]

Mine too, although I'm glad I don't breed them any more - I enjoy them more as pets. I feel totally vindicated now, I needed to hear that I did the right thing!

 

[KuronoEnyo]

Ha so after my last betta passed away, I told myself "okay... this is my chance start that cichlid aquarium!! YOU Got the right size aquarium for some small species!!! DO IT"

Soon as I saw the betta fish I just nabbed it then once i got home after a few hours was like "FUUUUU" XD So lucky to run multiple tanks!

 

[Nightfall]

Ha ha, exactly. It's the perfect solution. And I just got yet ANOTHER aquarium, a 6g, so now I have a 10g for my two dwarf gourami, one 7g and one 6g for my Bettas. I feel better now, I meant to get get the 7 for Alex and I wound up putting Heph in it while Alex was stuck in a 3g. The only bad thing is that Alexander has a huge bubble nest he's constantly working on that he'll lose going into the 6g. I feel so guilty ruining all his hard work, but I guess I'd be wrecking it next water change anyway.