capekate

Well I was at petsmart picking up a few more black neons for the 29g and two otos for 8cents 10g tank and with my sisters grandaughter who I couldnt refuse.. Ok ok.. that is the excuse Im giving my husband when he gets home lmao... anyway we picked a beauty of a female betta, she named her Gypsy. She has alot of the same pattern like the mahachai (sp?) bettas. I will take photos soon. I love her horizontal stripes on her, they were very different and she has a bit of a pattern on her tail fins. I decided to put her in the community tank to see how she does. So far she seems happy. If it ends up to be a problem I will put the divider back into the ten gal tank and put her there. Anyway... Im excited about the new addition and will post a photo of her soon!

Tazmiche

YEEEHHHYYY More fishies!!!!!! Can't wait for her pic!!

Tom

Go bettas, go bettas, go, go, go bettas. Congrats on your new love.
Tom

Jendayi

The horizontal stripes may be stress stripes from being in that stressful environment. You may find that they disappear when you get her home and settled in her new surroundings, and that she gains some color, too.

Welcome to Gypsy!! Can't wait to see pictures!

capekate

Thank you!
Im using the video to try and capture her and then transfer to photos.. having a hard time getting her to settle down alittle bit as she is checking out her new home. I was under the impression that the stress stripes on fish are vertical as they are in the discus and others. I have never seen a horizontal stress stripes?? anyone?

Phloxface

Horizontal stripes in a Betta mean they are stressed. Once she settles down they should disappear.

capekate

Thanks Phloxface
Im watching her now and trying to get some footage.. she seems to be changing color all the time. I didnt notice so much tourquise on her in the store, but in that blue water guess it was hard to tell. I hope she calms down and looses the stress lines soon.

capekate

Thanks Tom and Taz
here are some photos.. tomorrow I will try to get some better close ups of Gypsy!

cherryrose

Ahhh...Gypsy is beautiful. Congratulations.

CherryRose

COBettaCouple

she is a beauty. i wouldn't worry about the stress lines.. it's possible she took a couple of nips to her tail fin before being seperated from the other female betta babies. They look almost healed up 100% and a little stress coat would help her. I could be wrong and it's just lighting in the pics.

Sweetie took a few weeks to lose her stress lines, but she'd been through a lot, i expect your new little Gypsy to lose hers once she's accepted and gotten comfortable in her new home.

congrats on another Betta!

Tazmiche

She is LOVELY!!! Honey was a similar green when i got here, she is a nightmare to photograph but i'll try and show you her now, a real electric blue. (she is a real little madame....but then i like her character!) Maybe your little girl will change to blue too.

capekate

Thank you CherryRose, Tazmiche and Flbettacouple!
I do think that she is turning a bright blue as well, already I have seen a change in her color. She is doing great in the community tank and no one is bothering her, and she is not bothering anyone else, so thats good news! And hopefully the stress lines will go away when she feels comfortable and I will try and take better photos soon.
My sisters granddaughter who has been visiting with us with her grandma for a week now is totally in love with the bettas. She is ten years old but VERY mature and smart for her age. Her mother told her she can have a betta when she gets home. They used to have one. I have been educating her on the care of bettas and she has actually signed onto fishlore as: GypsyGirl and will at some point when she gets home stop in with questions about care etc etc. I would be alittle nervous about a ten year old having fish but I have confidence in her that she will do it right. I will be helping her step by step along the way. We will be going out to buy tank and supplies before she goes home.
She wanted to take Gypsy home with her, but understands that a four hour drive will not be good for her, so gypsy is staying with me! I saw an all white female with just red on the outer tail fin that was a beauty, I also saw a pearl colored white female. We spent a loooong time at petsmart just trying to pick one out. I would have liked to have brought home the white female for myself.. but I let her pick gypsy out. Still all and all I am very happy with her!

Tazmiche

I'm glad she is going to start fish keeping and great that she has a good role model in you!

This is the best pic of the minx, sadly you can't see the red on her tail and fins but at least you can see her, semi still!!

capekate

OHH Taz, she is beautiful! Gypsy seems to be getting some of that same color blue, so maybe It would be nice! Thanks for the photo!

voiceless_kat

Hi Kate..............your baby is soooooooooooooo purrrrty and congrats on adding to the family!!! I am thinking that you are just acting smart cuz you don[t have to cycle another tank for her...LOL/. Can't wait to see if her colour changes that is such an amazing thing they do!! And to be able to have her in a community tank..........that is great!

All of our families re growing leaps and bounds, aren't they?? I see a celebratory party in the near future!!


Val

capekate

Hi Val
I will have to take more photos of her soon... She is still doing great in the community tank. As far as cycling a tank goes tho... welllllll.. I have moved Precious to a ten gal tank that I had and gave the 2.5 to my sisters granddaughter, GypsyGirl ( her screen name here) and she will be bringing it home with her on sunday. I gave her all the bells and whistles and all she has to do is go pick out her own female betta and get some food. She is pretty excited and will be posting in the welcome to fishlore section in a few! I also will have to post photos of Precious new tank.. I love it and..... ahem.. it free's me up to get another female to go in with her since I have a divider here for that tank! yeeaaaaaa
~ kate

nmwierman1977

Aw, Kate she is very cute. I agree with Dave though I think she may have a bit of finrot. I couldn't tell if it's growth or not though. Hopefully it is. Maybe if you have it give her Vitachem and it will help with the regrowth of her fins as well as keep her healthy for the most part. Natalie

capekate

hmmmm... I didnt notice any fin rot?? I will have to check her out again and let you know!

COBettaCouple

actually i don't think she has finrot but she looks like she took a couple nips to her tail fin at some point and it's healing up.

yea, it's cool to see the color come in.. when we got sweetie she had no color and now she's a rainbow betta. Honey is looking great and can't wait to see Gypsy's color come in fully. i think it's great that you're bringing GypsyGirl into the Betta bug world.

voiceless_kat

Note to husband...." Can we keep trying til we have a girl"

I want a little girl betta too............if I can set up the 10g this weekend I will have an empty 6 and 2 empty 2 g that are Q tanks right now. Now empty tanks just aren't right, are they


Val

armadillo

Michelle, Honey looks gorgeous, but WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MEEEEE? You make me want a female betta and I'll be in trouble again for bringing yet another tank home!

capekate

I finally got a good shot of Gypsy. I think you will see that there is no fin rot on her tail.
But she is an unusual color and pattern! Im so glad she is happy in that tank..

armadillo

She's looking extremely cool. She looks like she has a right attitude on here.

Well done on getting your great-niece hooked, btw, Capekate.

capekate

Thanks armadilo
gypsygirl is hooked!! an has had a smile on her face since I gave her the tank and she cant wait to go with her mother to pick out a female. She will do good, a smart girl. If it was my grandson who is the same age, I would have told him no, but gypsygirl is much more mature and I know she will do right by the betta that she gets and thats the most important thing to me.

armadillo

That's really cool. I hope all our grand-sons and nieces come to this site one day!

capekate

Hi Natalie, I posted new photo of gypsy and as I mentioned, I dont believe she has fin rot but its a good idea to stock some vitachem and I will do that next time Im at the LFS.

capekate

I agree... lol BUT I had to monitor her posts for awhile. I dont want her to be a pest either! lmao...

capekate

Good morning Val
I agree... there is something about an 'empty' tank that just isnt right! lol.. Now that precious is in her own ten gal, I have thoughts on another one. I saw a beauty that was all white that I really loved. But I wont be going to the LFS for awhile, as its about a 45 mile trip for me. I had to run down there yesterday just for a divider for the 55g since my two new discus were being bothered by one of the original discus in the tank.

Tazmiche

Oh Capekate she is gorgeous!! I can see the pink in her tail too! I can't wait to see how she turns out!


Val, keep working on him!!!

And Arma your hubby would fall in love with the little girl!! But i know what you mean, i want a boy of my own now coz mum has Flame!! I'm off to the stores today for their food etc so will not have to look into any of their eyes that i come across!!! That is definately where their power lies!!

capekate

Thanks Taz~
I think she is going to change in color alot! Sometimes in the right light she looks so blue and other times, the green like in her photo. She really is a gypsy with all these colors!