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"with the way everyone is getting Betta Fever lately, we could storm the bad pet stores and hold the clerks hostage until our brothers demands are met!" says Pierce. and yup, i do mean pink body with blue fins. perfect coloration to, no wash ^^ then Pop-Eye... damn my lack of medication! that's...

sadly, i don't. my dad keeps forgetting the camera cable! perhaps tomorrow will be the day he remembers...

my Platties have gotten out of control. Zane the Once-King has been banished to the back corner and is constantly beaten on; Firefly cannot breed; Hex hates Kiss and tries to beat her up, Mishka and Polly fight against the Big Girl and end up pretty badly bruised; the fry are growing fine and...

alright, for the first time today it occurred to me i may have a long-finned female and not a short-finned male. i mean, so much works for him; he nests, flares at other males, claims his territory, and loves me :wub: buuut, during feeding i noticed a little white thing about where his bum is...

Itty, both tanks were 1g alone, but divided theyare .5g. all my Bettas seem fine in .5g set ups, and my dad can't complain about me having so many tanks around my room if, in reality, they're divided! you're going to hate me Itty. my Flashy looks exactly like that fishie you showed, only his...

actually right now i have two halved tanks and i'm getting two more .5g tanks for new Bettas, and have three tanks with Bettas, so technically i only have two tanks for new Bettas right now ^^ Aquaview+ are little wedge-shaped tanks by Hawkeye complete with undergravel filter and mini-hood, but...

since the introduction of both males and the two females to Mishka-Ishka's and Polly's tank, Zane has been head honcho. he has ruled with an iron fin over Mish, Polly and Hex, but chased Kiss and Firefly away. with the introduction of Crumple the tables turned. after being chased down by a much...

i was reading one of your replies (i forget which, that's my memory for ya!) and noticed you'd picked up, no, three more Bettas?! :lol: a platoon! sends like you're going to make itty bitty army helmets and send them off to war. but no, no Bettaholic would send a Betta off to war. perhaps you'd...

you are definately missing out! the only boring Betta is a sick or bored Betta, so you did something wrong to cause his being boring/death! :kana: Bettas are wonderful, personable fish. if you treat them right, like any pet, they will instantly bond with you. i've got three boys, all...

:kira: i don't really care where my fish live, as long as they're happy! but sadly, i came across my first Betta Horror Story last weekend. while in Quebec i decided to check out the petstore where we got our first dog, to see if they had any interestingly colored/patterned Platties. instead...

that's a nice little tank Loveless, those fish look a bit like Black Widows/Phantoms. were they sold as a Tetra? i can't see them well, but if they're a bit round and flat (like a dollar) with big fins and a little black spot where their 'heart' would be, that's them ^^ can't wait to see your...

Liz, i know Pierce hates having so much space because of the way he acts and reacts to them! when he was in the 10g, even with only the Loaches and two Platties, he sulked. always hidden with his nose in the back corner, he snapped at anything that came too close. in the 1g, he did the same...

Platties will get to be a max of about two inches, Variatus Platties to 2.5. so says the Baesch book, so says the Amber! -plans to scold her fish if they grow too big-

i'd say don't cull, bring them to a good LPS and tell them these are healthy, home-bred fish with very good genes. unless they offer to pay for them don't even ask, these fish are better of being sold to people then being killed. and Zak, all livebearers lead shorter lives, but Guppies can live...

Itty pretty much answered everything ^^ but you asked at the right place; Bettas are wonderful, active, personable fish that will give you tons of enjoyment. you'll soon find yourself baby talking to him, or... "Yeah, Boomer did the cutest thing today! He was digging up his plant, and when I...

well, since i'm not sure when my LPS is getting their next fishie order in, i'll be setting up now! i'm going to buy both the half-gallon Smallworld tanks at the store, perhaps i'll use my BettaHex as well for Pierce since he likes it so much, but i don't think so. half-gallons are as low as i...

when i checked on my Boyz tonight after feeding, i noticed Flashy had a little white fishie zit dead center on his chin! this isn't Ick, i know Ick, it's just a fishie zit. i've heard it a sign of HITH, can i treat it easily? any methods other than meds, like higher temperatures or salt or...

depends. one of my Bettas regected a 10g, regected a 1g, and is in the process of regecting his .5g!

alright, i can spot several things wrong with your post! i've bolded them, and will answer them below. first, laziness, color loss and scraggle are signs of flex. flex is a nasty virus for fishies caused by a lowered immune system. coming into the cold months, if he's in a small, unheated tank...

congrats on your new Boyz, Itty! i mean... Boooo, bad Itty! how dare you take home two more gorgeous, mistreated, 'Take-Me-Home' Bettas! :P

hi there, Loveless! welcome to the forums, and it's great you're asking questions rather than barreling ahead like many-a-newb does! 1- personally, i like to have very little waterline showing on my tank. it's really a matter of preference, really, and if you can deliver oxygen in other ways...

Sinking Shrimp Pellets. i used to drop in two for my entire community to gorge on; they were gone in microseconds because my Platties adore brine. so, i started dropping in oodles, like six or seven at a time. the Platties gang up on one, the Kuhliis grab whatever 'hides' in the PVC or plants...

some Bettas love being melodramatic and worrying their owners for days on end, i'm glad you didn't tear your hair out from panic and that Mickey finally ate some processed food! as for homemade stuff, i haven't tried it yet, but i do have another idea. if your tank can handle it, pick out a few...

i have this one boy who HATES the life out of his Betta Tank. he reacted the same way to an Aquaview+, and to a 10g community! the only time he's happy, it seems, is during water changes, when he's put into his own little Betta Hex. i was wondering, would it be cruel to move this Betta into a...

one Betta and an Apple Snail will be fine in a 2g, or you could divide it in half and put two male Bettas side by side ^^

my parents think i'm nuts, because every year i manage to sneak fuzzy mice presents in for my cat. then, last year we got a dog, and i snuck in a fuzzy squeaky ball for her. this year we've gotten a whooping amount of pets! yes, i include the AquaKids in my present list ^^ just wondered if...

in my personal experience, Platties don't work. they look and act too much like female Bettas for a male to pass them up! and, a fifty gallon (unless shallow) is much to deep for a Betta. imagine you had to breath air every few minutes, and it took so long to get to the top of the tank to get...

my old filter on my tank was literally old; it was an OLD model AquaClear Mini (not quite as mini as they are now!) and has taken a beating over it's lifetime. so, i retired him and replaced him with a new model AquaClear Mini. the few slots on the intake are much bigger than on the old filter...

-has a heart attack- BEAUTIFUL! better not let my boys see this, they might get jealous ^^

yes, first i'll introduce the reason i'm asking questions! Firefly - unbreeding Sunburst male Zane - overbreeding Blue-and-Red Wag male Hexadecimal - variatus female Baby Kiss - tiny Black female Mishka-Ishka - first Platy-fishie Twin Bar female Polly - second Platy fishie pregnant Mickey Mouse...

Platties are the most individual livebearers i've ever seen (or my dad has, for that matter) i've kept Guppies and Swords in the past and they were all the same; the females were lunky and stuck together, the males were too 'enthusiastic'. the Platties i own now are completely different; i have...

ahh, perhaps fish do get jealous... Flash is always eyeing Crumple's nice, big tank... jealousy? :lol: but more Platties are definately the best option, 'cause if the Mean Girlie keeps beating the Pregnant Girlie up you might lose her, giving Mean Girlie more fish to bully and Pregnant...

i've found Platties do be very melodramatic fish. i have the same situation going on between my six (2:4) the three Big Girls are always together, closely followed by Zane. Baby Kiss wants to be with the Big Girls, but since she's small Zane doesn't like her and chases her off. Firefly is my...

CommanderDoom, since everyone has answered you're questions i'm just going to say one random, off topic thing. stop acting so strange! by posting you'll get the attention and answers you need, don't throw the forums into a fit and keep writing nonsense things. we understand you're upset and...

my only Grrlie had her ventral ripped off by 'Da Big, Vishus Donny' back when i was just starting with Bettas. wash everything! i found a good way to nuke a tank is Vinegar. give the entire thing a vinegar bath. i did this after Lil Phoenix (an Ick+Fungus boy) died, then i put Pierce in. it's...

did this 'Striped' Platy have tiger-type stripes, or horizontal bars? the Variatus Platy is a sort of 'striped' Platy. i have a larger female who is grey with orange fins and dull, thin gold and green horizontal stripes along her body. my dad actually mistook her for a wild-type Swordtail...

i didn't say anything about a fault tail :blink: i said the two largest are smacking each other with their tails, and i was asking about their anal fins. they seem to be growing in thicker at the bottoms/fronts. the fish are growing fine, they're the spunkiest little critters i've seen, i was...

he was maaaad at me this morning when i cheaped him out of his bloodworms and he got... biogold pellets. he did not like those pellets! :lol:

my boys are spoiled rotten, they get a clump of bloodworm morning and evening ^^ i know they'll get snooty and not eat anything else when i run out, but that's why i'm not running out! bnahahaha... don't worry, they also get bloodworm flakes on occasion

well, i was feeding my boys their usual clump of bloodworms for dinner. as usual Flash puffed, then attacked his. as usual Pierce ignored his until theyr touched bottom, then started picking away at them. but for Crumple i slipped, and he got a huge gloonk of the stuff. fetched up the turkey...