How Did You Get Your Betta(s)?

[Chrissy]

I was just wondering, how did everyone get their betta(s)?

My stories aren't interesting or anything, but I thought I'd share them anyways!

I got my first betta when I was 7 or 8. My teacher at the time had one and I got to take him home for the weekend while we were out of school. I instantly started begging my mom and dad for a betta. (Hey, I was 7, begging worked! ) So, they let me get a betta from the LPS. His name was also Rainbow. He was a pretty VT and wasn't just sitting there in the little cups, and for all that my family knew about fish than, he looked healthy. He lived in a 5 gallon tank with 3 albino cory catfish for 2-3 years until age got the best of him.

Now, since I missed having a betta around, I started researching on their care, food, etc. Since I knew nothing when I had my last betta. Then, I bought a tank, figured out how to cycle it, and (Not) Sushi came home. He looks a lot like Rainbow, the same colors, both are/were veiltails, etc. They have the same personality, too. (Swimming around, flairing at everything in sight, and eating like pigs )

Now, how did you get your betta(s)?

 

[SuckerLove86]

Well I got one betta from my mother when I moved out of my parents house because she didn't want me to get lonely. His name was Wanda, and my cat made a snack out of him. So I finally started learing about bettas roughly 6 months or so after his digestion. I learned about crowntails, and stumbled into a fish store one day to find Zale, a crowntail mister for $4. I immediatly brought him home.

My second betta is from WalMart, rescued 03-16-05. Last night. I'm working on getting him in better health cause he had been nipped to all heck when I found him.

And that's my story.

 

[Kara101584]

Well, my first betta I got about 2 years ago from Wal-Mart... He doesn't have a name! But is still living happily!

My second Betta I rescued from Wal-Mart because he was hidden behind a ton of boxes, so he came home and now lives with my future Mother-in-Law.

My third & fourth bettas I adoped from wuvmybetta, they are a CT and a MG Delta... Named Nitro & Mi Ti!

And recently ( tonight, 3-17-05 ) I bought another CT and a resuce boy at Wal-Mart... One of them will be going in my mother's office at work... Not sure which one yet!

Had many before those guys, but just recently started looking in more detail about Bettas in general... getting VERY addicted!!...

 

[newfishies]

my first was Al(bino) - who was white...very creative. only had him a few months.
then came my boy blue - guess what color he is?

then after having blue in about a pint container and feeding him every few days and changing his water ever week or so, i discovered TFF.....

and then the addiction set in...

i got him a 1 gal tank

i found 2 combtails kyuck (punch) and chagi (kick) when i went to pick up some miscellaneous fish stuff at petco. they are combtails, and i had never seen anything like that, so i bought them 1 gal containers and brought them home...

then i got a 5 gal minibow and moved the combtails to that (divided) and lo nd behold, i found a beautiful double tail female (jaws) and crowntail (bubbles) AT WALMART and they went into the 1 gal tanks that were not empty long enough to dry out!

then a member named yeeviabetta ran a tsunami fundraiser and sent me thailand (male) and sumatra (female), both crownmoons, so i had to go buy some more tanks... and i found a beautiful blue cambodian combtail (hao (sky)) and almost cellophane VT (hi ma (snow))at petsmart. so i got a few more tanks and brought them home as well...

now i am setting up a 20 gal female community, with the girls that i have, and some new ones...

oh, and one of wuv's adoptee bettas has my name on it, ready to be delivered when boston comes out of winter (his name is merlin)!!!

that is the short version of my betta history.

i have had blue for over one year now!!!

my boyfriend now has 2 bettas at his apartment.... i wonder who started his addiction....

 

[Raechal]

We had a betta a few years ago as the family pet and he lived for about 3-4 years. Then my sister wanted another one so we picked out another one and he died because she gave him a water change and didn't know she had to add dechlor so he died the next morning. He lived for 2-3 years. Then my sister picked out a new betta and we decided to put him in my 10 gallon I got last Christmas, but when I was cleaning the filter I forgot to put the end of the intake tube on and the next morning her new betta was sucked into the filter. So I felt bad and went out and bought her a new one. He sat in an unheated bowl and I felt bad for him so I bought a 10 gallon for him and took care of him. So now he is named Angus and he is my betta since I am the only one who takes care of him.

Then my little sister picked out a female betta as she wanted to mate them. She is also in my room and mine now. Her name is Pea Princess.

Then I adopted 12 beautiful female plakats and CTs from wuvmybetta for my 120 gallon.

 

[uabassoon]

I got my first bettas when I was a freshman in college living in the dorms. I hadn't had them for years but recently had become very interested in all fish, but my place is way to small for a large aquarium.

A few weeks ago for my anniversary my girlfriend decided to buy me a betta, she took me to petsmart so I could pick him out and she helped me pick out a nice tank for him. So, that's how I got Yuki

 

[FishyLoveBug]

Walmart rescue hee hee. Out of 20 betas on the shelf he was one of 4 that were still alive.
I demanded a store manager and made a huge scene.
I was in a pink dress and piggy tails bawling my eyes out so when I was done a lady offered to stay with me until we could find my parents.
I thanked her and explained to her I was 22 years old.
I had excactly enough cash to buy one beta plus a tank. Bought the "least pretty", since none of them are ugly, and brought him home with me.
Breezer turned out to be a very handsome little man once all his color came back. Now if we could just get rid of this darn ick!

 

[boozybears]

We got our first tank almost a year ago and almost immediately I starting pestering him for another bigger one. Since that didn't happen I tried the reverse and suggested maybe i could get a little tank (or two ) and get some bettas.
Now hubby reported that he HATES bettas so I thought the case was closed. But... he surprised me for Christmas with a nice 1 gallon tank (although it came with the condition that I keep it at my office and NOT at home )

Funny thing is.. I've had Finnigan for about a month now and hubby just saw him for the first time on sunday. He leaned in had a good look and said 'ooooh..he's really cute!! Maybe we should get one of those for home'

 

[jkun17]

It all started about a year ago.

I was sitting at my desk, I had finished all my homework, I had just beaten the only game really worth playing at the time, I had wrist cramps so I couldn't build models or draw my comic -- so I said to myself, "OMFG, you need another hobby."

So I bought a betta. And another... and another... and another.... one year later I have 20.

 

[FishyLoveBug]

"Funny thing is.. I've had Finnigan for about a month now and hubby just saw him for the first time on sunday. He leaned in had a good look and said 'ooooh..he's really cute!! Maybe we should get one of those for home'"


Nows your chance! Go buy more!!!

 

[OohFeeshy]

Well, started with the 5gallon bowfont 'goldfish tank'. Realsied I couldn't keep goldfish in there, bought a heater, and found the only thing I could keep in there was a betta. So, after it had cycled, I went and got me a red VT. Called him Hannibal, now I'm waitng, just waiting for the moment I have more space, then as many 4.5gs as I can fit, and I might even pursuade my sister she wants one too

 

[Skylar]

I bought this 2.5 gallon tank from Home Hardware and decided to go stock it the next day at Wal-mart with a bright blue betta and a gold mollie. It didn't have a heater or a light or a filter. Little did I know my betta would perform brain surgery on the mollie. Mr. Betta died about a year and a half later because I overdosed him on Melafix. Ooops.

Then I tried to restock my tank after all my fish died because of my dad doing a water change so I bought another one.