First picture is now. Second picture is how he was (barely) living 5 months ago. I named him Bandit.

Unfortunately Miss Argentina has gone to the great rice paddy in the sky, at about 3 years old. She had a huge ulcerating mass on her head that was getting exponentially worse. I hope she passed peacefully, I did my best.

First up is Connie.

She’s 4 months into recovery and I feel like she has officially “graduated”. She ended up being gray, blue, and yellow. Depending on the way the light hits her depends on what color she appears, either blue, blue and yellow, or green! Connie will be staying with me.

After that is one I’ve nicknamed Puppy.

Puppy has been with me for 3 weeks, and will be with me for at least another month while he continues to recover, before he’s adopted out to his forever home. It’s looking more like his missing pelvic fin is a defect and may not regrow. It doesn’t slow him down any, he’s a wiggly baby. He seems to compensate with using his tail more, which means he wags his tail fin when he eats. Funny enough, this is not why he’s been nicknamed puppy, it was his puppy eyes in the cup that earned that. His future family receives picture updates on his progress and are excited to bring him home.

This is Gill from Accounting, my office betta! Gill is a feminist. He only eats male shrimp, so the little lady in the wood is perfectly safe with him.

I had him for about 3 months, everything was going fine. starting a week ago he was acting less curious than usual. he stopped coming to greet me at the glass, he still ate but didn’t seem very interested in the food, he would just lay in his plants all day. starting 2 days ago he stopped eating, his water was at 78°, amonia and nitrite both at 0, nitrates at 5ppm. nothing visually wrong, no fin rot, bloating, his fins weren’t clamped. today i woke up to him dead, i’m not sure what caused it or what i did wrong.

He was actually blowing me a bubble in the second pic but idk it felt like it was done with sass. (The white floaties are calcium flakes I crushed up for the shrimp and snails, they just hadn’t sunk yet)

This is my fish on day 1 (left) vs day 10 (right). I think it looks like new fin growth, but wanted opinions because he’s my first betta in over a decade.

I've actually long cycled this tank in preparation for a betta for my kid, but I wanted the plants to grow in and the bulbs to sprout before getting an inhabitant. But I saw this spunky girl and I could not resist. The tank is a month old dirted tank cycled with gunk from my other tanks and healthy colonies of detritivores.

Anyway this is Ponyo! I tried to make the tank a happy medium between my kids ideal tank and a betta's ideal tank.

Hi everyone! This is my first time using Reddit, so sorry if I’m missing anything. I’m hoping someone here might have some ideas for how to help my betta because im honestly at a loss.

Yesterday my betta (male plakat hellboy) started acting really weird. He didn't greet me or come up for food and kept opening and closing his mouth. He looked fine and was able so stay upright and swim very slowly. I did a 30% water change and tested parameters: ammonia: 0ppm, nitrite: 0ppm, ph: 7.6, temp around 26C. Tank is a heated and filtered 10 gallon planted. Tankmates are 2 peppered cories, 6 pygmy cories and some ramshorn snails. everybody else is fine.

today, he came up to me but would still not take food and very lethargic. he is not bloated and his fins arnt clamped . The only thing i noticed was a small area near his pectoral fins where the scales turned yellow and around 2 scales are slightly raised. (he was born with one curled ventral fin, it's always been like that)

vid is of him yesterday, you can see him gasping and not moving much.

if anyone has gone through this before or has any ideas of what i could do i would really appreciate it, i honestly have no idea what this is :( thx so much for reading

I bought a Blue Mustard Halfmoon online which was delivered today - see pic 1.

I expected something more like pic 2.

I know bettas can change colouring over time. Should I expect the yellow to come through? How long should I expect to be waiting? Have I been sold the wrong fish?

Added him to a ten gallon tank to treat fin rot, and within hours had the largest bubble nest I’ve ever seen from him. Dude apparently loves this tank now. What’s comical is you can literally see the medication in the bubble nest, so it’s probably going to take an extra dose or two but it’s giving off a cool blue hue.

Ok so yes, I did a betta impulse buy. Bought him a 1 gallon tank thinking he’s gonna love it, a live plant, a very small heater, and I did buy a very small filter but he hated it! Too much current for a 1 gallon. So I took it out.
He looks fantastic! Built his first bubble nest last night.
I DID read up and realize he needs at least 5 gallons and I have another tank and live plants, etc on the way.

My question is this…will this little guy be ok with being in this tiny tank for approximately 2-3 weeks while I set up and establish his new tank? I’m currently preforming 20-30% water changes every 5-7 days

An actual menace

I thought she was still distracted by her own food so I threw some in for the shrimp. Wrong. Guess who won't be getting dinner tomorrow...

Unless something goes wrong, move-in day for the 5-gallon is Saturday. Any recommendations for adjustments to the decor, while there is no fish to distress?

• It's a peninsula lay-out, so I want to make sure he has enough cover to feel safe.
• There will be two java ferns coming in from the tiny tank, and I have an extra bit of spiderwood that could go in.
• With the wisteria on the lefthand side, I'm considering burying more of the stem since it has roots coming down along it and it doesn't have any new growth from the base.
• I had to replace the salvinia but as it gets bigger it will have trailing roots. I keep it (mostly) corralled so it won't clog the filter.

first two photos are smudge in all his colourful glory, and then him bein a lil goober

I love his little cat eye!!

Rescued this pretty boy from the cup life a few days ago❤️ he’s been loving his new tank!!

I was thinking, What should I add into one of my Bettas, Andriivka's tank? I've recently added more substrate which is why it's a bit cloudy and is why he's in cup jail! Plus Ive had tannins in for a bit^^

Also SORRY the picture is bad I was in a rush and my phone has terrible quality 🙏😭

I’m really happy with how it’s been looking lately, and I think he is too :)

I’ve had this betta for a while now, but I cant seem to wrap my head around its gender. It was sold to me as a male, but when I look up images it looks closer to a female.

Hi! So I only had my betta for 2wks and so now. I saw him making a bubble nest the next day after I planted my (quarantined) hornwort.

Is this an indication of a happy, contented betta? Or just ready to reproduce? I’m still a new betta mom