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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...

I've got a bunch of marbled and common hatchets, including one I call Harp (Time for a sharp exit, time for a cool, sharp Harp), who's favourite pastime is leaping out of the water (as many hatchets do). He's been on the floor twice, and lost an eye by leaping into the cover guard, but he was...

What exactly do you keep in with a betta when it's on your desk at work? I've heard African Dwarf Frogs are good, but they seem to be in very short supply around here. I don't want the little guy getting arsey when he hasn't got anyone to 'play' with. He's in a divided 4 gal with another male...

Mamaschild, is the picture in your avatar a krib? I've never seen one quite like that, with such well defined fins

I did have a white crown the same as my avatar, although it's not him in the picture. He died when his tank mate jumped over the divider - a good couple of inches above the water, when I took the lid off to feed them. :-( I work in a Vauxhall dealership, and I don't really trust the salesmen...

What a great sign that would be - a picture of a fish leaning on a shovel. If I put a betta on my desk at work, would any of the radiation emitted by the computer monitor affect him in any way? I've not exactly got a large desk, and I've managed to have a shift about, and got a space where the...

I was in one of the fish stores near me today, and they had a tank of what were labelled, "Balloon Rams". They were more rounded than your standard, run-of-the-mill ram, and had longer fins, of which most of the specimens were missing parts. Are these selectively bred, or do they exist in the...

I have successfully kept angels and hatchets in the same tank, and there wasn't even a lot of competition at feeding time. The angels generally inhabit the mid level of the tank, whereas hatchets reside nearer the surface. I did eventually split them up, as I had a pair of angels, and they are a...

No, it's £15 just for the shrimp The hatcher is another £7, and the full kit is about £25.

Just went back down the lfs, the stuff is called 'artemia revolution', and is made by these guys: NT Labs If someone has a lot of betta fry, it'd be a worthy purchase, but I only keep a few of my fry, as I don't have a lot of space for them

I've seen a bottle in my lfs, which claims it contains brine shrimp eggs without shells, and a 'guaranteed hatching of 4 million brine shrimp, ideal for feeding baby fish.' Has anyone heard of this product, and is it any good? It's £15 a bottle in my lfs, which seems a bit steep.

My first betta was called Frankie - Frankie the fighter sounded a good name The one in my avatar is called Storm - he's a VT with a black body and clear fins (not pink, as they look under the light) I've got two others - Flame, a red CT (well, half a CT after he got beaten up by a female, poor...

Hi M3ntalist It depends on where in the Uk you live. My favourite local fish store is a place called 'Chiltern Aquatics', which is just off junction 12 of the M1 in Bedfordshire, in a village called Harlington. They always stock BioGold, but the three male bettas I have now don't like it as...

I've got a few hatchetfish in my tank, but a couple of them seem to have paired off. They swim around the tank, side by side, they 'hop' through the filter current side by side, and they even leap out of the water side by side! :fun: Does this mean they might try breeding soon? If so, how do...

I bought two Golden Ramirezi Cichlids the other week, and they seemed ok in the quarantine tank. I put them in my community tank with numerous other fish, including fighting fish, last Friday, and they still seemed ok. I've looked in on them after dinner, and they're both staring at each other...

I've got a red betta (Flame) in a community tank, where he's been for about two months now. He didn't get off to the best of starts, he got his fins ripped up by a female when they were in the split breeding tank, being conditioned. He was recovering nicely, but now he's started flopping over...

Thanks for putting my mind at rest about that, I feel pretty bad when I do it, but I like to think I'm doing their brothers and sisters a favour. I don't think I'm quite prize-fish breeding material, but I'll post more pics of them when they grow up, to see if anyone thinks I should breed a...

Er...you probably won't agree with what I'm about to say, but rest assured, I'm not saying it for shock value, especially after I read your pinned message about betta breeding. After about two days after spawning, I take the male out, and remove any eggs that haven't hatched. Usually I have...

Not really, it looks like virtually every other baby fish I've ever seen. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll actually grow up to be adults this time. Last time I bred my fighters, I put them in a breeding trap in my main tank whilst cleaning out the fry tank, and a female minnow jumped...

After many attempts with the manual zoom on my mum's digital camera, I finally got a picture of one of my three week old baby bettas! B)

Hey everyone, After a few weeks of waiting, Frankie & Ryba finally mated, and I now have about 10 youngsters in a 5 gal tank. They've been in the tank for about two weeks now, but they don't seem to ever change or get bigger. I feed them a drop of Liquifry No1 three times a day, and I've just...

Hey everyone I've got a 25 gal tank with a male fighter, three female fighters, a few harlequins, some serpae tetras, a couple of glass catfish, some cory catfish and a fat pleco. Would there be any breach of the peace if I added a few hatchet fish? The only fish that comes to the surface...

Hey people, I just thought it would be a good life for me to file the most esoteric (using long words that few people understand) post I could muster! Cheers for the replies, I was a bit worried 'cos all he seems to do is eat, sleep and excrete! 'Spose there's not a lot else for him to do...

Good evening, My plecostomus Alonso seems to be permanently trailing faecal matter, and my tank appears to be delicately saturated in traces of said excrement. I've experimented with alterations in his dietary intake (e.g. cucumber, algal wafers, etc.) and it gives me the impression that there...