Recent content by Stav'sBetta

He's on the side of my shoulder. I need to save up for a bit longer before he gets coloured in. Definitely going to be a bluey-green colour, if I can get the tattooist to make a colour like that. And there's plenty of room on the rest of me for more tattoos!

Well, he might not be real, but every betta counts. And this one won't die if I don't feed it either. Showing my love for my favourite fish

Hi all, My fighter has, over the past few days, developed a growth of some sort between his eyes. At first I thought it was him attempting to get through the mesh divider I'd set up for him, but I have since removed the divider, and it seems to be getting worse. I've enclosed a couple of...

I went to an LFS near me to pick up some filter pads, because it's making a bit of a racket and it's upsetting my plec, who likes hanging on it, and I 'wandered' :whistle: past the fish to have a look. There was a tank with a few females bettas in it, and in the bottom corner was a really sad...

According to the Webshots forum rules, any images depicting cruelty to animals are a violation of their t&c, but they aren't actually showing them fighting, just boasting about it. You can report a violation at the bottom of the page

but these people ought to be shot - not only for fighting them, but calling them japanese fighting fish http://community.webshots.com/photo/310479...310479696rPhkuY

Here's my bunch - with my only surviving juvie "Fry" making more than the obligatory one appearance. She was originally named after the Futurama character, but it's also the name for a baby fish - so it's good on both levels

As SRC said, it doesn't really matter how you put them in, as males will flare at other males and females anyway. As long as they get enough space to swim around, especially to ensure they don't see each other constantly (possibly leading to either blown tails, or 'flare apathy'), then they...

In the UK, gibbiceps is usually sold under the name 'common pleco', and has (usually) brown leopard patches and golden colouring between them. My Alonso is a gibbiceps, but I don't have any pictures of him at the moment. I'm not sure about anywhere else in the world. Hi-fin plecos are similar...