What's This?

[Timur]

Come out and play?

Wheee!

Now he's just showing off. .

Sorry the picture quality isn't too good, I'm still new at this and lack the highest quality camera!

 

[Synirr]

He's such a handsome boy!!

 

[liz2]

Lovely, my newest baby is very shy...I just went to look for him now and he really hides..then sort of rushes out and flares at me!

 

[jollysue]

So did your boy bite you yet? He a lovely little fellow.

 

[Timur]

No, my hand has yet to come into contact with his actual water. . Baby steps here, jollysue, baby steps.

Watching him eat is so adorable though. He vaccuums up his little pellets. Then right after he eats he darts around, stops, turns, darts, stops, turns, etc. It's like he's dancing!

 

[Elise]

He's a cute fish alright! I think this whole thing is purdy funny! But I am glad that you're overcoming you're fears; we're proud of you!

 

[karen4kevin]

 

[sukie]

I'm w/ Elise!

I'm so glad you've gone the betta-craz!!

(rubs hands together) Soon. . we'll see boy#2???

 

[jollysue]

Yes, Baby steps are good--right along with Bill Murry and Dryfus. (If anyone knows who they are anymore.)

 

[Booboo puppy]

I do! I do! "Something about Bob"

 

[jollysue]

 

[Timur]

Ack! #2? Although I could name her Mu Naught (μo)and then they'd be the Gauss family!

...

Not until I'm ready, though. Honestly, I'm surprised I even found this guy. He's cute, but... just him. When I'm comfortable with the idea of handling more than one fish, I'll let you all know, I promise. Until then, εo is going to be one chill bachelor. B)

EDIT: Another pic!

He really, really, likes those leaves!

 

[jollysue]

So cute little guy! I missed a thread or something; I don't get the Eo.

Actually it's "What About Bob?" but close enough, Boobo puppy. You get the comedy trivia award today.

Tell Synirr to let us know if he eats you. You know Betta can smell fear.

 

[Timur]

So cute little guy! I missed a thread or something; I don't get the Eo.

Thank you! My little guy is named Epsilon Naught (or Epsilon, Epsie, Epper for short). ε is the Greek lowercase letter "epsilon", and the little subscripted o is the physics denotation for "default" or "initial," and is pronounced "sub zero" or "naught" for short. Epsilon is used to denote electric permittivity, and thus (εo) is the permittivity of free space. I had a long description here of what that was, but in previewing my post, I realized most of you won't care beyond what's here. I guess all you really need to know is that I am a nerd. . I made a reference to Gauss somewhere, and that's because he made Epsilon naught famous by way of Guass's Law, which relates electric field to the source charge.

Tell Synirr to let us know if he eats you. You know Betta can smell fear.

It's bound to happen soon. I placed him right next to my bed, I think I overheard him plotting to break through the glass and swallow me whole...

Also, εo is totally vain. I was talking to my brother telling him about flaring, and when he asked what that was, I reached for my camera and turned it on to show him the picture I took... and of course εo jets out from the leaves, starts fidgeting following the camera around. I didn't believe it, so I waited a few minutes for him to calm down and pulled the camera out again, and sure enough, off he goes.

Of course, this led to some very good pictures, which I will put up as soon as my brother downloads them off the digicam.

God I love this guy! He's resting in his leaves now, it's so cute.

 

[jollysue]

ral has a Betta to rule the world thread that is so cute. Betta hooked up to some kind of contraption that allows them to move their bowl in the direction they want to go. ral has a sketch of a walker he proposed for Bettas. Betta Walking

The link at this link shows the real contraption some scientists set up--So funny!

Thanks for clueing me in to the name thing.