Before and after pictures

[BettaDew]

Originally Posted by logisticsguy

BettaDew! So nice to see you here. Great to have another friend on the forum. Your gonna love it here. Your fish looks much better. It is wonderful what good care can do for a betta.

Thanks Logisticsguy !

[Sena Hansler]

thanks :)

[carbonxxkidd]

This is one of my bettas, Krycek, on the day that I got him:



This is what he looks like now - his fins grow more every day! He is also in a different tank now than in the first picture, with an LED light so his colors really pop, but I think he looks like a totally different fish. Lucky for me he was pretty healthy when I got him, just needed warm water and love. :)

[Sena Hansler]

wow!!

[BettaDew]

Nice

[polukoff]

These last two pictures are why you shouldn't breed rosetails, they end up like this when they get older. Poor fella has trouble swimming with all that finnage.

[Tikibirds]

Wait... the ammonia was at 8.0?! yikes. Good job!

I think it was higher then that because the water turned blue and that's not even ON the API chart.

Your not going to separate him? Or already did? Lol

As of right now he is going to stay in there, which I know goes aganist everything we have been told about male bettas. Normally most people start to suspect they have a male in with the ladies because the male becomes more aggressive as he gets older. This guy never became more aggressive. I only suspected it when he kept growing.

I do keep a close eye on them - no one seems stressed or sickly and I almost never see nipped fins. Some chasing and sometimes he flares but that's about it. No breeding stripes, no stress stripes or anything.

The only aggression I saw was when they were all tiny and I first put the original 4 together. The ladies ganged up on him and I had to remove him. I put them back a few minutes later. I wonder if he can remember that?

I think OFL also has males with females but in a muh bigger tank. I'm not saying to go out a drop a male into your female tank or anything. it most likely would not work. I'm just telling the story of why there is still a male in my tank.

[BettaDew]

Nice @Polukoff !

[BettaDew]

Originally Posted by polukoff

These last two pictures are why you shouldn't breed rosetails, they end up like this when they get older. Poor fella has trouble swimming with all that finnage.

I didn't know they got like that later on But it's still nice

[BettaDew]

This is my female CT I bought at Walmart. Her name is Lane, here are the before and after photos: