I rescued my first betta SQUIRT from Petsmart. He was all the way in the back of the rack and looked almost like a female. The label listed as "Male betta." He was white in color and depress. I was just following a friend to take her dog to the store and ended up buying a 10 gallons right then and there. I also bought little Squirt. I know you not supposed to buy the fish before you got your tank set up but I was scared that they might toss him away since how he look so bad: fin rot, ich.
He got home, enjoy his tank. I changed 50% of water every day for almost 3 weeks and reduced it to 25% every 3 days and he seem to be doing fine. He turned out to be red in color and not white.
I got addicted to bettas and coulnt stop buying more. Now i ended up with 7 of them and 6 10 gallons tank in my tiny shared apartment room
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