Well, my 5 gal finished cycling (as confirmed by the shiny new
API test kit I bought this morning), and it was fully intended to be used as a quarantine/hospital tank. I went to the
LFS to get some more stress coat, and of course, had to pass by the
betta wall... And following me the whole time from his was a gorgeous veil tail, who ignored all the other customers.
Hook, line and sinker- I found myself coming home with a pretty new boy. He was showing stress stripes, but rather than gray, they were navy. While acclimating him, even while freaked out, he still followed me- but instead of calmly following me he was flaring at me. Silly little boy.
After we put him in, we tried a couple pellets, just to see if he was at all interested. Down the hatch in seconds- and within ten minutes of going in to the tank; he made himself at home that quickly. In the last hour he's picked out a favorite corner behind his plastic log cave. He's also discovered a great game to make me pull my hair out- he's toying at how close he can get to the filter inlet before it starts to affect his tail. He'll swim by it, stop, a little closer, stop, a little closer, etc...
His main body is a kind of muddy red (well, more so red with navy ridges on the scales), but his fins are brilliant blue and green bleeding in to pale red with darker red spots, and the borders of his fins are blue and green as well. And his eyes are Caribbean blue. Combine his rainbow-riffic colors with his *cough* attitude, and his name was no question.
I'll have pictures when I figure out where the stupid camera went.
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