Got a new betta (now with pics)
a crowntail from Petsmart. My local Petsmart just started carrying them.
He's my reward for pulling all my crafting junk out of my bedroom. I've been promising myself for a year that when I dejunked my room I'd buy myself another betta.
Anyway, he's a lavender crowntail with red tips. His head is kind of a muddy color, and my daughter thinks he's butt-ugly! *laughingc (I don't!)
He's very young, it seems, and apparently has never seen live food before. I say this because, if a fly or mosquito lands on the surface in Flame's tank, he goes right for it! and last night a fly fell onto the surface of the new fish's home and he just kept circling it, approaching and almost tasting it, then backing off and circling again. I watched him for ten minutes, then went to bed. About fifteen or twenty minutes later, I heard a little splash; I turned on a light and the fly was gone! I wonder if he waited for it to quit moving, or if it just took him that long to work up the nerve to taste it! *crazysmil Fish are funny.... I doubt he'll waste much time the next time a tasty insect happens to fall into his territory.
a crowntail from Petsmart. My local Petsmart just started carrying them.
He's my reward for pulling all my crafting junk out of my bedroom. I've been promising myself for a year that when I dejunked my room I'd buy myself another betta.Anyway, he's a lavender crowntail with red tips. His head is kind of a muddy color, and my daughter thinks he's butt-ugly! *laughingc (I don't!)
He's very young, it seems, and apparently has never seen live food before. I say this because, if a fly or mosquito lands on the surface in Flame's tank, he goes right for it! and last night a fly fell onto the surface of the new fish's home and he just kept circling it, approaching and almost tasting it, then backing off and circling again. I watched him for ten minutes, then went to bed. About fifteen or twenty minutes later, I heard a little splash; I turned on a light and the fly was gone! I wonder if he waited for it to quit moving, or if it just took him that long to work up the nerve to taste it! *crazysmil Fish are funny.... I doubt he'll waste much time the next time a tasty insect happens to fall into his territory.
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