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To know whether the Betta fish are your pet or you are their, you have to go through the following checklist.

You are a betta's pet when

1. You permit your water age for 1 hour, 1 day or even quite a few, only to be confident although you already know that the water is harmless seconds after adding your dechlorinator.

2. You are persistently thinking of fresh things that would be suitable for your betta bowl for the reason that your betta wants new toys.

3. You can't avoid checking out the collection of bettas in each pet store, even if you have sufficient.

4. You stare at your betta at work when you should be carrying out your other important works, and support your co-workers to come closer and see "the adorable thing he's doing".

5. You discover yourself searching for female bettas that would produce attractive babies with your pet male betas.

6. You're constantly going through your much loved old novels to get some of the very best names for your new betta fish.

7. You can't defend against overfeeding your betta fish as it enjoys his food very much.

8. Your family begins speculating when you feel you will have sufficient betas.

9. At the slightest sign of fin rot, you straight away getaway the aquarium salt, bettafix, tetracycline, pH adjuster and fungicide, to mix up an emergency medicinal cocktail.

Therefore, how many of these are correct in your case?

1-3 checked - Unwary Betta Victim
You noticeably are still green to this betta game.

4-6 checked - Betta pet
You are a usual betta pet owner. You beautify your new betta bowls to go with your fish. People have discovered you dance around in joy at your initial real bubble nest.

7-8 checked - Betta Fan
You test out the Fish Forum daily morning, at lunch, and prior to bedtime, for your betta fix. You are dreaming of growing brine shrimp as extravagance for your much loved bettas and have influenced everybody in your direct personal circle to possess a betta of their own.

All 9 checked - Discouraging Case
You are aware of your trouble. You keep betta pictures in your money purse and your own kids are envious. Although you are conscious of your condition, you turn down cure.

chickadee

I have been a "Discouraging Case" since the beginning. There is not any other word for it.

Fun Test.

Rose

COBettaCouple

LOL.. I think with some minor changes to that list, we'd score 9 easily.

Allie

8/9 for me.

luna

1. You permit your water age for 1 hour, 1 day or even quite a few, only to be confident although you already know that the water is harmless seconds after adding your dechlorinator. I don't feel the NEED to age my water, it just does it as a result of how I set up my water. I have a one-gallon water jug that I keep filled with conditioned water for when I want to change out some water or top off the tank.

2. You are persistently thinking of fresh things that would be suitable for your betta bowl for the reason that your betta wants new toys. This is worded improperly, so I will not agree to it as written. Replace that awful highlighted word with "tank", and I'll agree. I have a bag full of fake plants that I've added and removed from Kappa's tank in an effort to make it prettier and more interesting.

3. You can't avoid checking out the collection of bettas in each pet store, even if you have sufficient. I've stopped doing this one for the most part, but only because bettas are kept in such infuriatingly, maddeningly poor conditions.

4. You stare at your betta at work when you should be carrying out your other important works, and support your co-workers to come closer and see "the adorable thing he's doing". Well, I don't "work", per se, but Kappa is in my room and visible from my desk, and will be coming with me to college, so I guess that will suffice as a yes.

5. You discover yourself searching for female bettas that would produce attractive babies with your pet male betas. No, for 2 reasons. One, Kappa's a girl. Two, I know how expensive, time consuming, and hazardous it would be to try to breed bettas. I DO, however, notice pretty boys that would be cute with Kappa.

6. You're constantly going through your much loved old novels to get some of the very best names for your new betta fish. I thought about character names I like, but I didn't spend too much time on it, as I wanted her to have a name of her own rather than a reference to something random.

7. You can't defend against overfeeding your betta fish as it enjoys his food very much. Oh, she's a little piggie-fish, but I'm very careful to not overfeed her.

8. Your family begins speculating when you feel you will have sufficient betas. I only have one, as I don't have the space or resources to maintain multiple tanks, and I don't want to even THINK about moving more than one tank to and from school.

9. At the slightest sign of fin rot, you straight away getaway the aquarium salt, bettafix, tetracycline, pH adjuster and fungicide, to mix up an emergency medicinal cocktail. Never had a problem with fin rot, and I would never use Bettafix, as it's a watered-down version of Melafix, which is hazardous to labyrinth fish. I'm not a big fan of the idea of most of those other medications, either, though I would hurry with fungicide if I noticed fin rot...but mostly because the earlier you catch any disease, the easier it to treat, and the better it is for the fish.