Kierana
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So I've stolen a page from BettaMomma's book and gotten my boys set up in a divided 10 gallon. It's a good thing that I "borrrowed' the idea for the center division since Dash managed somehow to circumvent the first divider while I was having a shower. 
Now let me explain a moment about Dash. He reminds me of the "defective detective" for those of you who watch Monk. He doesn't like to touch things or for things to touch him. He's excessively picky about what, when,where and how he'll eat. Water is never 
supposed to move. Everything must be just so at all times. He's also massively curious. How he manages to balance all of this in his itty bitty brain, I'll never understand.
If jumping was how he did it, he now has plastic canvas over the top of his side. During his great escape, however, he failed to anticipate that in that center division space was - *gasp* - the airstone! Now it's not set at a very high rate and the mesh keeps most movement to a standstill as long as you're not actually in the same space as the stone. There he was in what, for him, must have seemed like Betta hell - 2 inches of width, nothing to explore, and all those darn bubbles! The only thing to scoop him up that would fit in the space was my brine shrimp net and I swear he swam into it like it was his only hope of salvation.
He's pouting now, sitting there under one of his silk plants.
P.S. Bart is perfectly happy on his side of the divider and Cleo is ecstatic in the 2.5 gallon mini-bow.
Now let me explain a moment about Dash. He reminds me of the "defective detective" for those of you who watch Monk.
He doesn't like to touch things or for things to touch him. He's excessively picky about what, when,where and how he'll eat. Water is never supposed to move. Everything must be just so at all times. He's also massively curious. How he manages to balance all of this in his itty bitty brain, I'll never understand. If jumping was how he did it, he now has plastic canvas over the top of his side. During his great escape, however, he failed to anticipate that in that center division space was - *gasp* - the airstone! Now it's not set at a very high rate and the mesh keeps most movement to a standstill as long as you're not actually in the same space as the stone. There he was in what, for him, must have seemed like Betta hell - 2 inches of width, nothing to explore, and all those darn bubbles! The only thing to scoop him up that would fit in the space was my brine shrimp net and I swear he swam into it like it was his only hope of salvation.
He's pouting now, sitting there under one of his silk plants.
P.S. Bart is perfectly happy on his side of the divider and Cleo is ecstatic in the 2.5 gallon mini-bow.
That's great! Dash sounds simply adorable. 
