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The thing is, neither did I :/ I've never encountered anything like this. He was kept warmer than my previous fish as well. He's a lot fancier than anything I've ever had so maybe he was just a lot more susceptible to diseases from his background, I don't know. I just hope its not TB, I'm...

Yes, I know it was bad fishkeeping. This was why I purchased the 4 gallon aquarium (plain aquarium, no filter, YET) : to build up a proper aquarium and spoil him. I've kept many bettas in bowls and have had a successful attempt at breeding, so I figured it would be okay temporarily until I got...

Warning: some slightly graphic photos Please note that the fish died last night... But I need to figure out what it is and hope I don't infect another fish. 1. Water parameters: The only thing I know is that out of the tap the pH of my water is 7, and my room is very warm so temperature in...

This is a cool thing to go for! I think some veiltails are very lovely, even though I'm more of a Plakat person. :lol: But if you are going to go through with this, you need to create some kind of standard and an idea of what your ideal VT finnage would look like. In my opinion, if there was...

I'm sooo jealous, they are gorgeous, fantastic finnage too! And the colours! I actually just ordered my first fish off AB too, a copper marble HMPK female to match my blue and white marble HMPK (who now has dropsy..but seems to be getting better, idk). You and I have the same taste in fish! I...

Thank you! I wish I could have them all back lol. Sadly,my current betta, Charles, is sick.. I don't know what caused it but he has dropsy... Funnily enough this only happened AFTER I found and purchased a female for him to breed with on aquabid, and after I bought him a 4 gallon rimless...

I have to say that that is pretty strange. Sometimes young males have been known to show breeding bars, and sometimes females have made nests... The chasing is totally normal, even if one of them was a female. But to be on the safe side, do you have any photos of them just to be sure?

I have so many, how could I choose? xD Anything marble or grizzled is good, preferably blue/green or copper with that marble, with some thick white scaling.. if I think it looks right, Blue/White/Red combo is fantastic. Anything really striking.. In HM or PK format :P And its weird, but I...

If you want some really nice fish, its best to import them from Thailand, which should be doable. But if you can't, there are some nice breeders in the US. I find that most American bred fish don't have the same finnage quality.. But I'd say if you wanted to buy within the US, look up...

If the red seems likes its showing from underneath her scales, what you are seeing is her brain, hehe xD if it seems like the red is sitting on her head though, treat it as a bacterial infection. I am fairly sure its nothing, i think my female had that too, just perhaps not so dark.. but its...

If you want to keep a cleaning fish in with your betta, get one that stays small and actually does clean a lot, such as an Otocinclus. They should be kept in groups of at least 3 though, but you should be able to fit at least that in a 10 gallon.

Don't worry about the black spots.. This girly is a cambodian, and it happens sometimes that black pigment randomly appears... my first female had the same coloration and also had some black scales, so don't worry about it, unless they grow/spread/more appear/are bumps and not flush with the...

It helped that I had taken every photo of every fish I ever had and put them all on my Photobucket (I don't remember the login info for that account though, go figure!) and I used the dates the photos were taken to help me create the timeline.. But yeah, other than that I do remember a lot of...

I'm going to say she's perhaps 6 weeks old, give or take a week or a few days. There is a very good chance that her growth may be stunted... The best way to get her to grow is to do some 'power' growing! Through my first and only shot at breeding bettas I found that when out of warm water and...

Bah, thats just sad. Especially that she shoved the 'it can survive in tiny spaces' thing in your face. I don't get how people can be so willfully ignorant about these things :sly: You have my blessing in stealing this fish. Just make sure you can hide him if she ever comes over again.

Haha, yeah Bleuet, he's like that... He flares at my camera and my cellphone :rolleyes: He has attitude problems. I took a short video just today: Here he is flaring! as you can see, he looks at the camera like its his underling. And yeah, I was super lucky! I did so much research for months...

Yes, patience. You can honestly take good photos with any camera. The key camera settings are this: flash OFF and macro settings ON! Try to take the photo when the fish is flaring and doing that little impressive pose thing they do in between their 'attacks' on the mirror. If you find your...

Would you consider trying to convince her one more time before you steal it away? Maybe try showing her pictures or videos of your fish, or maybe even ask her to come over to hang out, if it wouldn't be too awkward, so she can 'accidentally' see your bettas (or maybe just saying HEY WANNA SEE...

A little late, but i have to say out of all of them I like the pastel green female more.. But otherwise, I love Cheveyo.. :wub: blues!

Definitely a DT. All DTS have that extra big dorsal that starts closer to their head, because the mutation that causes DT mirrors the bottom half of the fish onto the top.. So you basically have an extra caudal and an anal fin as a dorsal, which is why its so big! And depending on how many rays...

The attisons looks wayyy to big to be fed to newborn fry. I think you should feed egg yolk and maybe infusoria until they 7 days old (like, 7 days since hatching), and then for the next week, keep feeding egg yolk but gradually add in those other foods, maybe start with the food from taiwan and...

Patriot and Cesar omnomnom. I love fancy colored Plakats ahhhhh

His rays are spaced pretty evenly and his fins look good, obviously he's a little young so they will grow longer. His body is maybe a little short but not bad. If you get him be sure to flare him often to try to increase his caudal spread... I think he's pretty nice! Is he the one you're going...

I just love those traditional PKs... :wub: Can I know where you got him from too?

Pretty please xD

Thanks to both of you :) And yeah, they were gorgeous... If only I could revive them and breed them this time :blush: I can't wait to find a nice male and female pair on aquabid... I'm waiting for some really awesome fish to appear, lol. It's too cold to ship here now so I can't wait to see...

Soooo... To begin with, I got into the hobby just before I turned 13 (I just turned 19 now). When I was younger I had always had goldfish in a bowl.. I didn't know anything, and I even had a betta in a tiny 1/4 gallon bowl :crazy: Not surprisingly, I was known as the fishy killer, and didn't...

You're welcome! :3 Just remember to look for the other things too when judging a female.. sharp corners, full fan shaped dorsal (not a skinny one), and that the anal fin is not overly long or triangular. :P Allll of those factors will affect your spawn. Heheh, I can't wait to see photos of...

Ignore the thick part, and look at how many red ray 'tips' there are at the end of the caudal. :) Edit: http://bettafanism.blogspot.com/p/guides.html is also a good explanation of how to count rays. Just found it now lul

I attached an image of a halfmoon female with red lines to mark what the rays are. :) As you can see, they stem from one thick ray and then split into much smaller rays. The more smaller rays you have at the end, the better! For a female to be a true halfmoon/Delta type, she will need a minimum...

hehe, don't worry about overdosing.. I did a 4x overdose of QuickCure on a fish with ich/white spot and I literally watched the ich fall off him... he was fine :P

People have said that Melafix/Bettafix hurts the labyrinth organ, but I've used it for so many things- popeye, fin rot, wounds from breeding... And it only ever helped and none of the fish were worse off for it.

Sure, I'd love to help you pick out which to use for breeding. :) As for the Brine Shrimp thing, the thing is there are two 'strains' of brine shrimp.. Theres Salt Lake variety and then there's San Francisco Bay I think? Apparently the San Francisco ones are smaller than the Salt Lake variety...

Sorry for your loss, she was a beautiful fish... When it comes to bettas, I think we all experience some really horrible deaths, they are almost too adventurous or curious... :no:

All VT females but so super cute! :D I generally don't like red bettas but the red female is my favourite... She has such a cute face :wub:

When a fish is white with another color, it has the marble gene. For some reason, marbled fish change their colors and pattern, and its not an indicator of bad health, so don't worry.. its a genetic thing. :) This is a pretty cool example of a marble changing. For some reason though, I was...

I'd also just like to add that for the first couple days after they use up their own yolk sacks, you can hardboil an egg, take a little of the yolk, mix it with water and feed them with that. I think you might find this website, or more specifically THIS page of articles, super informative and...

He is definitely an awesome male indeed, and the female will be a great addition to the betta addiction :) I just wanted to help you out before you got too far along with this. If you haven't looked through it already the Bettysplendens.com website has lots of info on everything betta, breeding...

She may have delta spread, but from what I can see she lacks the multiple ray branching and straight caudal edges necessary to be a delta or halfmoon type female. To be a delta/super delta/halfmoon, a fish requires more than just the spread. She needs straight caudal edges and ray branches of at...