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Anonymous
So /an/ I went and bought a betta today. So hey, let's have a betta thread!

Bonus points if you can help me come up with a name for him. Pic looks like my Betta, except not as full in the fins.
>> Anonymous
Black body, red and blue fins?
Blaze.
>> Anonymous
This thread is likely to last longer than your beta.
>> Anonymous
Papa Legba or Baron Samedi.
>> Anonymous
>>292776
I had a betta that lived over 5 years. Their really very easy to take care of. Just do not keep it in a tiny ass bowl.
>> Anonymous
>>292784
hey well, there you go, OP has some fishkeeping skills after all.

also, biscuit
>> Anonymous
Name: Sid Fish-ous (Sid Vicious)
>> Anonymous
>>292786

That's not the OP actually, I am. However I have kept fish for years. Usually large community tanks though. We even had a fresh water eel that lived for a long time and grew huge. I wish I had a picture of it, it was over a foot long.

>>292784

Right now I have him in the small bowl he came in, I bought a one gallon tank and I'm waiting until tomorrow for the water in both the tank and his bowl to adjust to room temperature(and also give the Aquarsafe a chance to set in). Also going to do the slow mix process to get him used to the PH in the tank water so it doesn't kill him.
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I bought a Betta splendens last week, a female (I prefer short fins) with the same colors: Dark body with red-blue fins... the color of wild Betta splendens! She just got out of quarantine, into my Corydoras catfish tank, and is now bossing around the snails. I called her Glühwürmchen (German for firefly, gotta love all those ü).

Bettas are great fish, unfortunately they only live one season (one year) in nature and don't get much older in human care, too. I read that three years is pretty much the most you can expect. If you breed with your fish, it will die earlier. And of course, if you put it into a stressy community tank, it might last only some month or even weeks.

Pic related, but blurry: My Betta.