OK, nano tank... totally not me, but maybe my journey into betas, maybe Killi's, white cloud minnows???

[Beastije]

If you had more time, you could have had started a walstad jar. They take like 6 months to stabilize though I started one in June, put dirt in, some sand, plants, put my hand in, spilled half the water out, deeply regretted not having tweezers, plopped some ramshorns in and left it be.
Added water, didnt really replace it much. Until end of november the water was pea soup green and full of a cyclops colony that just developed. it had too many snails, in went my assasin snail, as I ran out of places where to put it.

Now it has some hair algae, but otherwise the water is ok and the plants are doing fine and I still didnt really do many water changes.
Adding pictures

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and right now

 

[Magnum Man]

While I can appreciate the jar, this is going 5 feet from my dining table, where most company gather, so, while I want it natural looking, I don't want it literally looking like a bucket scoop out of the swamp... so fewer, but big enough colorful critters, that they get witnessed... I'm hoping the bright red cherry shrimp stand out, and a couple of colorful snails... while I have smaller pond snails in a few tanks... I'm hoping for only one or two colorful snails, and eventually a flowery male Betta...

 

[Beastije]

I get you My eyesore is hidden from most people, though last time I had people gathered in the hallway they did keep pondering why I am keeping a jar of something green and maybe rotting ) Noone understood when I cooed over the cyclops colony in there (and they could not see them despite me pointing them out!!) ))

 

[Magnum Man]

If I were buying a Betta today, it would look like this...

 

[MaloK]

You need much longer fins... To the point it's forced to be lazy.

The tail should be 3/4 the length of the fish and the anal fin spread like a wedding dress under him

Or you will see a fish swimming around a jar like NASCAR.

He might grow a larger right pectoral fin with time.

 

[Innesfan]

If I were buying a Betta today, it would look like this...
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I currently have the doppelganger of this guy, only the irid on him is a lighter shade of blue. He's in a 29g with 7 Hoplisoma atropersonatum (I'm learning! And it's not only a change of genus but also a change of gender). They mutually ignore each other. The butterfly pattern has always been a favorite of mine.

 

[Magnum Man]

well, that's the closest to what I would buy, available right now but too army to consider

 

[TwoTankAmin]

What about one like this?

 

[Magnum Man]

I've seen those... assumed the would be more athletic, than a splendens ... and I've always wanted a red, white, and blue one...