New Betta!

[tate8]

We took a family trip to our local Petsmart tonight. Funny how a $10 Betta will cost you $200.

Anyway, here is is the newest addition to our family.

[Nephalem]

Uhhh, something went screwey on your post attempt. No pic, no link. Congrats tho. I can't wait to see him. POST IT NOW! :jumpeveryone:

[Azurescriber]

Yikes, $10? Ours are like $5.

[tate8]

Uhhh, something went screwey on your post attempt. No pic, no link. Congrats tho. I can't wait to see him. POST IT NOW! :jumpeveryone:

Whoops! I forgot to post the video, lol.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zySpL230f1Q&sns=em

[tate8]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c214/bamas10/FE78F245-661F-4AEC-A871-859663CB21F0-3203-000005298A670FA9.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c214/bamas10/797F2C83-FFED-4F26-811D-F87183220A73-3213-00000529EE54EBA2.jpg

[Nephalem]

Nice. A veiltail?

This is Sigma, our newest betta boy. He is in a temp QT right now, but he has a new 10g home we are setting up right now. He's a dragon scale veil so he should get to be pretty big. I didn't like his color at first, my wife and kids did, but after looking at him for a few days he is beautiful. Unfortunately the little punk doesn't stay still long enough for a decent pic.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/Nephalem/Fish/DAE48440-07FF-4B04-9A2A-C787B41F5602-2419-0000013AB6634BF6.jpg

[tate8]

Cool Betta!

I'm not sure what kind ours is. The cup that he was in just said male Betta. He is now in a 15 gallon Aqueon Column tank. It came with a Quietflow filter but I don't now what it is rated. I gutted it and filled it with biomax from one of my Aquaclear 50s from my 36 gallon. I think it will be ok for one fish.

[Nephalem]

Oh yeah with extra seeded media I'm sure you are fine.

Yeah I asked what he was before you put the pic up. He is deff a veiltail and he MIGHT be a dragon scale, but I can't tell from the pic. Veiltails are the ones that have the classic flowing tail, and dragon scale is just a slightly bigger variety with larger scales.

Your boy has an interesting color fade from the blue to the purple and into that almost rusty red. It's cool looking.

We have a breeding pair of wild imbellis betta coming special order to our LFS. They are pretty cool looking. Check this out.

(I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF THIS IMAGE. ALL CREDIT TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER)
http://www.bettafishonline.com/wildbetta/wildbettaimages/imbellis.jpg

[tate8]

That is a cool looking Betta!

[tate8]

After reading about the filter that came with the tank I am not impressed. I went with my gut feeling and replaced it with an Aquaclear 50 with double media. thumbs2:

I should have plenty of filtration now. :hmm3grin2orange:

[Tiari]

The tank and betta are pretty. You might want to get some hidey holes though for him, more bush soft plants or a "betta log" so he's got somewhere to hide. A spare tank can stress out a Betta.