So, because I can never just leave things be, I HAD to go get a new betta. I was leaning towards getting a male, but I wanted to see what all was available and such. So I went back to petsmart and got very upset at the girl there 'cos one of their fish was OBVIOUSLY dying of fin rot (it was at the sort of flap-its-fins-ineffectually-while-pressing- ( Read more... )

As promised, pictures of the fishes in their tanks. I do keep a divider up between them so they can't see each other most of the time, but I removed it for the purposes of picture taking. The lighter of the two is more "Oooh, what's going on? ATTENTION! ATTENTION! PAY ME ATTENTION!" so it's much easier to get pictures of her while the darker one is ( Read more... )

So. We got two bettas today, both girls. The lady in the store said two's FINE to have together and that the tank we were talking about? the 1.25 gallon? was the PERFECT size for two.

Then we get home and talk to funnel101 who's like "um. no." Poking around hopefully on the internet just backs up what she says so later we're going to go get a second tank ( Read more... )