The Puffer Forum

He's stunning, great choice!

eieio wrote:thanks for your responses
brought the betta ("chumley") home several weeks ago
great fish, very interactive, very pretty, and very happy to be out of that miserable bowl he was kept in
eats a variety of foods and has three rasboras, two golden mystery snails, and two ghost shrimp as tank mates

He is beautiful! I got a betta a few months ago. He is dark blue and red. Told my husband I got him for our 3 1/2 yo son....but he was really for me
And that was it! I had been bitten by the fish bug and got some puffers! )

I've enjoyed keeping many bettas over the years. A local betta show breeder would sell his very healthy but slightly less than show quality specimens at a now-closed LFS, and I got some absolutely stunning fish that way. They're great little finned friends, fairly interactive and nice to have near the computer.

Warning: Don't feed bettas live worms if you ever intend for them to eat pellets again. Once they've had worms, that's IT (or maybe my bettas were just snobs).

Pufftastic wrote:I've enjoyed keeping many bettas over the years. A local betta show breeder would sell his very healthy but slightly less than show quality specimens at a now-closed LFS, and I got some absolutely stunning fish that way. They're great little finned friends, fairly interactive and nice to have near the computer.

Warning: Don't feed bettas live worms if you ever intend for them to eat pellets again. Once they've had worms, that's IT (or maybe my bettas were just snobs).

That must be the problem with my GSP's right now . I feed them live earthworms as an occasional treat and they barely touch anything else unless I starve them for a couple days.

Bettas are a riot. These are my three $0.97 Petsmart gals when they were in the 55g community tank. They loved digging through the java for those NLS micro pellets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7vBEaj ... t1hZDd9vBA

I just had to put down the purple/not red gal tonight. Over the past several months, age and poor genetics caught up to her.

thanks all, for your input
really enjoying having this little fish
.........wish i had room for more of them (sound familiar?)

JRC3 wrote:Bettas are a riot. These are my three $0.97 Petsmart gals when they were in the 55g community tank. They loved digging through the java for those NLS micro pellets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7vBEaj ... t1hZDd9vBA

I just had to put down the purple/not red gal tonight. Over the past several months, age and poor genetics caught up to her.

Beautiful females you got there mate