Welcome to Beautiful Betta Fishies. This is a little project I decided I wanted to start after having an instagram for my betta fish for the past month or so. I have enjoyed posting on there so much, that I thought I would have a good time blogging about my betta fish adventure with everyone. As a quick disclaimer I am not a betta fish expert, nor am I a fish expert. I am just a girl that has four betta fish and thought people might want to read her two cents on betta fish, cory catfish, and snails.
Let's start from the beginning. I bought my very first betta fish in January of 2015. I did not expect him to live long because I had always had bad experience with keeping fish alive. I made a lot of mistakes with that fish, though thankfully he is still alive today despite those mistakes. The first mistake I made was keeping him in a 1 gallon, heater less, filter less, bowl. I didn't know back when I first got him that they needed all of those things. I kept him alive for about a month in the bowl before I brought a 5 gallon hexagon tank with filter and heater to school. Oliver is a healthy veiltail betta who is completely red and has some cool coloring on his scales in certain lighting. He is featured above in this post. He is also the betta I am going to be using as kind of the logo for Beautiful Betta Fishies.
Then I bought a female betta. Again I put her in a bowl that was heater less and filter less. I had planned on only keeping her in that for a little over a month until I got home from school and could get a split tank set up for both her and my male.
Cinderella was one of those bettas that as soon as I saw her I knew I had to have her. I also knew that if I didn't buy her she would most likely die in the cup at the petstore because most people in the city my school is in do not buy the female bettas.
Cinderella and Oliver have a bit of a love hate relationship. Meaning Oliver loves her, but she hates Oliver. It has been that way since I got Cinderella. Oliver flared at her all of about two times. Then he spent time just swimming around the cup she was in looking at her. Then swimming away. After moving home for the summer I put them in a split 10 gallon tank. Everything was fine until I left to get Jimmy Johns and came back to find Cinderella on Oliver's side of the tank hanging on to one of his ventral fins. Oliver was just swimming around with her hanging on. He didn't even try to hurt her. When I came back into the room she darted back to her side of the tank, which was when I realized I had set the divider up wrong. So I pulled her out of the tank and went and bought a new divider. After getting the divider in the tank the right way I added her back to her side. Oliver could have cared less that she was over there, but Cinderella just wanted to get back over to Oliver's side of the tank. She spent the entire night trying to jump over the divider. So I bought her her own 2.5 gallon filtered tank so that she would stop trying to jump to Oliver's side to kill him.
Since I moved Cinderella out of the divided 10 gallon I decided to get my third betta. Nova was a fish that my mom actually picked out because I couldn't decide which one I wanted. I joke and say that Nova is actually mom's fish since she did pick him out. She also spent two weeks taking care of him since I was at school.
Now Nova actually is a black and navy blue in person not the green color he is in this picture. He is a twin tail halfmoon betta and I actually love the way his tail looks. It has grown a lot since I got him. Thank you to my mistakes with Oliver I did not make any mistakes with Nova when it came to setting up the tank.
About two weeks ago I got my fourth, and so far final, betta fish. He is a yellowish white colored crowntail betta with navy blue on his fins. I got him after having some issues at my job I have worked at for almost two years. I saw Finn at Petsmart in a dirty cup and at first I didn't really think anything, but oh that poor fish. However, then I realized that even though he was in a dirty cup he was still chugging along and making the best of his bad situation. As weird as it sounds he was an inspiration to me to keep going along at work, even though the situation sucks.
That is the beginning of my betta fish story, This blog is going to be about my betta fish as well as anything that I think people might find interesting about bettas or that could be helpful with caring for bettas. I will currently be posting every Monday. If the blog becomes a hit I will try to post at least two if not three days a week.
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