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Betta Splendens,
originally kept as fighting fish, have captured the fancy of fish lovers
everywhere.
I was no
exception…
My bettas are
listed below along with their personally information and a few pictures.
This was
one of the first three.

Poseidon: red

Here’s Poseidon’s first picture.
Cyrano: pastel
turquoise/red
Later
on, I upgraded the original bettas to larger bowls and had three smaller bowls
empty…so I got more bettas. Cyrano is
the most aggressive betta I have right now, and he looks pretty beat up anyway. He’s closer to what you’d call a delta
tail. Note in the second picture the
tail fans out evenly, but isn’t rounded (well, maybe a little, because he’s not
in full flare).


Cyrano is the scrappiest betta I have. Here you can see his nice
tail and pastel coloring.

Mugshot for Cyrano: One tough cookie!
King: pastel
steel
Though he
was not one of the first here, he certainly thinks he owns the place. New bettas are made aware that he is the boss
as he races around his bowl in full flare.

King has the biggest and most delicate ego.
Gandalf: pastel
turquoise/purple
Gandalf
was from the second batch, but he’s an old man.
He’s very cool and easy. Life
doesn’t phase him at all (Note the yawn).


Gandalf stays calm, even when Cyrano flares at him. He’s cool.
Gives you that look like, “What?”


BARK! BARK! HOOK
THIS!!!
Pescadonna: red/blue
One of
the first bettas I bought. She had a bad
fight with fin rot, because she was a very messy fish and would often hide in
the muck at the bottom. By the time I
had realized her water was getting dirty faster than the others, disease had
set in. Right now I’m treating her with
MelaFix and have her in a five gallon with a filter so she won’t get so dirty.

Pescadonna when she was in full health.
(She had a bad fight with fin rot, and she’s in rehab right
now).
The only
one I’ve purchased by himself, I got this guy just yesterday, because I
happened to have an empty bowl. He’s a
beautiful fish and seems much happier her than in that crappy little cup at the
store. I can’t stand to see them dying
in those cups. When my guppies had
babies, I allowed nature to take it’s course with the fry. Now I only have three of the babies, and the
aquarium isn’t overcrowded at all. The
problem with bettas is that people think they’re beautiful and want more, but
they can’t be kept in the same bowl, so you’ve got to either let the weak ones die
or buy more jars for them.


Copyright © 2003 Shelby
Healy
Page created 1.4.2003
Modified 1.6.2003