Betta Updates =D

[Giselle]

Aww, I would like a Maui baby, but I'm not a big fish person. I love their different colors and I *adore* their nice big tail fins (erm...deltas?), but I like animals I can interact with And from what I heard and am reading on this forum, fish are pretty high maintenance! I barely keep up with my birds' weekly cage cleaning. I couldn't imagine cleaning bowls, chlorinating (or was it de-chlorinating?), and adding all these water supplements. Yeah...I'm lazy, aren't I? LOL, Kula's gorgeous, by the way! I love her coloring.

[bckrazy]

LOL... Bettas seem like nothing compared to dogs and cats and birds, though! I actually only have to change Bonzai's 2.5g once a week (and he would be fine going 2 weeks) and you can basically use just Stress Coat (like $3 for several months of water changes) to de-chlorinate (heh, you DONT want to chlorinate them!) and reduce heavy metals and everything. I'm sure you could totally become a Betta addict .. they're food literally costs $2 a month, and they can use one tank and the same decorations for years. Insanely different than birds or dogs they have personalities, too!

aanyway, I'm done trying to turn you into a Bettaholic. ~_~ just tell me if you change your mind! And, Maui and Kula are Halfmoons, which is part of the Delta tail type... a HM has to have a 180* tail span. Any Deltas with tails over 180* are called Over-Halfmoons. Halfmoons also dont breed true, they're rare and only occur with really good conditions, so I'll probably have a huge majority of Deltas and Super-Deltas (which are close to HM's, but not quite) in the spawn. Bettatalk.com , which is where my Bettas are from, has a TON of info on everything about Bettas xD

[Suki Wingy]

The thing with bettas is that it is so insanley easy to care for them and they look so happy swimming around in their tanks that you just can't help but have more, and more, and MORE! I am watching a veil named Dan for the week and I just see him gliding through the water from across the room and get this urge to go out and get more to put all over your room!

[RobiLee]

Wow, you have gorgeous bettas! I love their coloring. You seem to know lots about them too. I don't think my betta boys have changed a bit since I got them. I only feed and change their water. Should I be doing more?

[bckrazy]

thanks Robin! I know you take awesome care of your boys, and give them more than they could ever want!! No changes = good, as long as they're happy and healthy you are doing *everything* right. I really don't know that much, I'm a TOTAL newb and there are soooo, SO many people on Bettas boards like fishforums.net that know 1000% more than me. I've had Bettas almost constantly for 5 years (always wonderful VT's before these 3) and I have tons more to learn. Hopefully I'll be able to have at least a few Bettas for the rest of my life ... they have so much more personality than any Goldfish or Guppies in the world ~ not to mention they're waay prettier. ^_~!

How do your handsome boys like their big tanks?... I think we need pics!