Gargoyle

Rescued from the cup of death at the LFS.. Although their cups of death are at least filtered.

My daughter fell in love with him... He is now happily swimming about in our new 55 gallon tank.

I have learned that many of the stereo types of this fish are not a hard rule. He gets along fine with all the other fish and really doesn't even bother the other big finned fish. He will flare every once in a great while then swim away as if flexing his muscles "just in case".

Honestly a very nice addition to the community as a whole.

LetDiceFly

The poll didn't take into account that many of us have many bettas from different sources.

Wil looks like a real star.

My first 2 bettas were cup saved, when I got Flash I wanted a HM, and I know of no local sources so I had to go online. My 3 girls were in little cups at Petco. They also had some handsome young CTs. My Petco has also distributed as many of them as possible around in their plant selling tanks. One lucky little guy was happily swimming around in tank that was about 8 feet long. I would feel bad taking him home and sticking him in a 5 gallon.

Allie

I've got CT from Aquabid now. He does seem healthier than the others. ANd another from Walmart.

MissMTS

I have 4 bettas that came from aquabid (I ordered them all at once so the shipping wasn't too much). I also have two bettas who came from Petsmart and are perfectly healthy. I don't think that there is a right or wrong way to purchase bettas because they all need good homes regardless of who is selling them.

Lucy

I got mine from Petsmart. But it wasn't my fault, it was Prissy's! I went looking for neons, saw her and fell in love, but left her there.
My husband brought her home later as a surprise!

roxanne

our two guys came from walmart in those little bitty cups with almost no water... now both are happy, healthy, and spoiled to the hilt!

shellbell4ever

I rescued Bonnie and Clyde from a co workers as they were in vases,I got Ripley,Hicks,Dallas and Vasquez,from my local mom and pop type pet shop(and their cups are smaller than the one's at petco)But they don't get a whole lot and they don't stay there long about a dozen a week,I rescued Bishop from a petco death cup as well as Newt (r.i.p.)

Angela_96

I got lucas betta from a petsmart in a little chicken-salad size cup w/ blue water... looking nasty and half dead.
Now hes one happy betta! I almost think he does loopty loops at water change days!

Sunakire

I used to rescue my Betta's from pet stores that either where ignorant on Betta care of they where just cruel and didn't care. But then I realized that the money I was giving them was just going towards buying more Betta's to replace the one I just saved.

The guy I have now, Zee, I bought from a LFS that keeps their Betta's in a long divided tank with filtered/heated water.

JasperII

We (my son and I) won our first betta from our 4th grade teacher. She had a writing contest for the class "Why I wanted this betta". She was moving and needed to give the fish to a good home. I am a fanatic about this that I care about. I have 3 spoiled kitties all from the "streets" (adopted, rescued, and loved). Now I have lost Mr. Fish. I believe he was quite old, larger than 3 inches, veil tail. He had a wonderfully planted 2 1/2 mini bow tank and lived a good clean life. His passing was extremely hard on me and its been a year. Now I have 3 male bettas (Jasper, Mustafar, and Spark). Love my bettas. Sorry this was so long.

Red_Rose

I had gotten my boy from a LFS that isn't in town anymore. He was so small compared to the others and my eyes kept looking in his direction so I had to get him!

COBettaCouple

! Wow! If we had a LFS like that, they'd get our fish business for sure!

Allie

I just lost one my betta named Jasper too.

Fishies-for-me

I got my beta Blue at petco where they had surprisingly good looking bettas all in larger than average cups in CLEAN CLEAR water. I got my other betta Floyd at petsmart in a typical small cup and he came down with velvet within days of my getting him and almost died..but is doing good now...have had no problems with Blue.

JasperII

I'm sorry you lost Jasper. I remember your posts when he was sick. I paid particular attention because our fish had the same name. Although it was Mr. Fish that passed. My Jasper has been with me for a year but he has something attacking his fin next to his body leaving an open red sore. I have treated with tetracycline, then melafix(4 days), then maracynII, now coppersafe amd melafix. I study him with a magnifying glass. I think he's improving. I pray everyday for him. I pray for all our fish.