Online Fish Shops???

[Jo]

Then you'd have to pick up the dog-and-bone and actually speak to the guy! Bizarre concept, I know

WHAT...TALK to someone, like a REAL person......wow, think I've almost forgotten how to do that!!

 

[Alien Anna]

I have no doubt of Monty's honesty, but Betta's are so much a matter of individual taste. If I asked for a COMPLETELY red one, okay, maybe, but a blue one with red edges to the fins? See what I mean, that could be interpreted in any of a dozen different ways.

Given the choices in my "local" fish shops (45 minutes drive away), I'd take the chance. I can get "stray moggy" or "brownish blue" or maybe "purplish brown". Don't get me wrong - Brucie's a lovely personality, but he isn't the shiniest betta you've ever seen. I keep giving him colour-enhancing food in the vain hope I can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> vain hope I can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.