Pics Of The New Guy.

[Deus Machina]

Sorry, can't take a picture to save my life. Well, I can, but the blues on this guy...


He's actually pretty thoroughly red, until light hits him.
At which point he flares straight into ultraviolet.

Those lighter facial markings are mother-of-pearl.

This camera's not the greatest; I actually had to turn the colors as far down as I could and actually get it in color. The 'vivid' setting it's usually on was producing blacklight posters.

He compacted up on me--the flashes caught him off guard. It's really a shame, because he keeps that blue in the rays all down his tail.

And the second I point a camera, he decides that's when he goes under his ledge and runs figure-eights through the grass clumps...

 

[liz2]

my fish never look the colour they are in real life

 

[doresy]

Nice one

 

[Hawkins]

Looks like a marble combtail to me

hes a nice colour, whatever it is

 

[tangokitty]

Nice picture I bet his real colors are stunning!

 

[Deus Machina]

Thing is, his real colors are red and dull purple, until he finds a good spot of light. Then he flares into neon purples and blues.

He's not a combtail, he's a veilteil, and dealing with what I believe to be an ammonia spike in his tank. Poor guy's fin cumbled.

Luckily, I managed to get him out before he harmed his gills. He's in his cup (with water from a cycled tank) until I can get my 1.5 gallon levelled in temperature and down on the ammonia.

It looks like the tapwater has some ammonia in it. I dropped part of a Jungle ammonia clear tablet in it, and put zeolite in the filter and gravel. And it's still coming up around .25 ppm.

He'll be getting bottled drinking water, after this.

 

[liz2]

Out tap water has been bad for over a week, had to boil it. Its Ok now but one of my boys looks a bit sick, he has just had bottled water, and looks happier.

 

[Deus Machina]

I'll be doing a price comparison between Wal-Mart brand bottled water and the stuff out of the machines.

A local breeder (who I met at work, and mentioned her own bettas in passing. Before she talked about them for forty minutes. ) said she gives her bettas water from that big green machine. According to her, double reverse-osmosis filtered.

I'll get a jug and run the test kit across it.

 

[Deus Machina]

Alright, a better picture now that he's stable.

Managed to get the camera to drop its wicked blue shift. These are much closer to his real colors, and serve to show how they shift at the angle.

None of him fully flared, but great rays down his tail.