#betta update

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Betta Update:

Slick loves his new home! He moved in this morning, and has been exploring ever since:

I wish I'd gotten a picture of him in his pet store cup, because I can not describe how much he's improved. His color is better, and my betta expert mentor says she can see his fins starting to heal already.

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So I have an update on Nebula. He has been completely transferred to his new take and he is doing so much better now! He has had so much fin growth back after probably the worst case of fin rot I've ever experienced or seen. He is way more active than we was originally and is constantly swimming through the brown rock on the left corner of the tank. Also my algae ball is actually growing quite a lot now in the new tank!

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Meet my new roommate!

As promised, this is my second, newly recovered betta, Gimpy!!

When I first met this guy, he was floating on his side at the top of his cup, and only perked up when I picked him up for a better look.

Being a rose petal betta, he was the most expensive fish on the shelf, which meant that between the price and him looking very dead, he would likely never be bought, so...

He became mine.

His favorite place to sleep is behind the water heater cord, or against the foam covering the filter intake. He recognizes the sight of the pellet container, and does excited wiggles whenever he sees me coming with it.

Gimpy is also not a morning fish, and gets crabby if I turn the light on before 7am. He also nopes out around 9pm, at which point he tucks himself behind his cord for the night.

Thanks to this little dude, I've had an INSTENSIVE crash course in betta health and maintenance, and have found a vet in my area who does treat betta, resulting in me being far more prepared to be a betta caregiver than I was when I impulse-bought Slick.

This little doof and his bigger doof brother have stolen my heart. I never thought I'd love a fish as much as I do, but they've got me hook, line, and sinker.

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Have a nice Sunday supergirl! How is little fish

Very well, thanks!! I’m so proud of them!! 

Fun story: My friend and betta sensei recommended getting food pellets for my fish babies, and so I did. Went with a betta pellet from a well-known name brand. Gimpy was still on thawed peas, but I gave a pellet to Slick immediately thinking that he’d just swallow it in one go, right?

NOPE. Turns out it was a completely different size from my friend’s pellets, and was too big for Slick to swallow, so he just carried it around in his mouth until it softened enough to take chunks out of. 

And Gimpy is def improving-- he’s almost ready to make his debut. I moved him to a recovery tank that’s shallower than my 5 gallon, and made it easier for me to track his appetite and BMs. Once he got over the transfer, he started to move around and is now able to stay completely submerged and upright a majority of the time.

He will, however, occasionally just lie motionless on his side at the bottom of his tank or completely limp next to his moss ball. So he just loves giving his mommy a heart attack.

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Betta Update

(Because I’m just so great at updating when no one really cares.)

Odd and Ulrich are doing their own thing in their tanks and being healthy. Vader is growing his tail back little by little. A little while after he fixed his tail when it got shredded he actually ended up getting something that acted like tail rot. I don’t exactly know what happened, all I can say is his tail got pretty short. But after cleaning the water more and keeping an eye on him it looks like that tail rot has stopped and now he is starting his recovering process again. Unfortunately a day or two ago Leo ended up coming down with Popeye. So on his tank I am going to do more water changes and I have him on some medication that should help fix the eye. I think the poor little guy is depressed that his eye is so large, that and he’s in a lot of pain it looks like. But he’s hanging in there. As for Nightwing. Last nights incident hasn’t happened at all today (seeing as I didn’t come home to a dead fish) and he is swimming like he normally does, so I’m going to say he is healthy and happy again. 

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Betta Update

So I promised Nightwing that I'd get him a hoop and his own tank so I could remove the lid when I was home and help him jump safely if he really wanted to jump (and if he survived this accident he had). Maybe if I would give him the option then he wouldn't just go and recklessly about kill himself.

Sadly I don't know if he'll make it. Me picking him up and him out of water is probably going to kill him via heart attack. I really hope not I enjoyed watching him swim.

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Betta Fish Update

NIGHTWING JUMPED OUT OF HIS TANK!

Oh my god guys I swear to god if I knew that he could move the lid on his tank I would have taped it up again. I came back from just being gone a few minutes to find him missing so I went searching. Last time he ended up jumping passed the divider I have somehow and getting into Leo's side of the tank so I searched there before I looked back into his. I was like, where is he? I don't know what in me told me to look off to the side of the tank but when I did I was struck with horror to discover his small black blue body just laying there. I thought 'Oh my god he's gone. I was only gone for a little bit and he's now dead. I could have actually prevented this but failed miserably'. It actually turns out he was still somehow breathing. So I picked him up as best as I could and placed him back in the tank hoping to save what little bit of life he had. I don't know exactly how long I was gone but it wasn't move than 20 minutes. At first when I put him back in I thought I was too late because he just kind of sank and he wasn't really wet when I managed to find him just slimy. Every other minute he seems to move a little bit so I think he might be okay but man I never thought something like this would happen. I just am so shocked I just don't know anymore.

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Betta Update

So an update. I have gotten two new bettas to use up the two other tanks that I had set up previously. Ones name is Odd and the other one is Ulrich. Leo is being Leo and loving his plant like usual, his fins are a tad longer and his color has actually darkened. Nightwing fins are much brighter and vibrant no complaints. Vader was my concern, his fins were appearing ripped. At first I thought that it was normal and that was just how he was, but after a couple of days the tears were getting bigger. I quickly investigated the issue and narrowed it down to two theories. One was the plant he had was too sharp and the other was that the filter was too strong. Well I changed his water and removed the plant switching it with a softer one and then lowering the filter to the lowest setting. It has been two days since I've done this and his fins seem to be fixing themselves nicely. It's nice to see him getting better. Other than that all these betta seem to be happy and healthy. 😊