FLBettaCouple

When do you ever sleep ???? I love u

 

Ever since that vampire betta bit me, I don't seem to need sleep.. I just crave bloodworms twice a day for some reason..

LOL.. I guess some days I go to bed later and others I get up early so it seems like i'm up a lot.

 

WOW

I'm on and FLBC isn't. Fact, I think I'm the only one in the forums right now...
My TV is out.

 

WOW

I'm on and FLBC isn't. 

Lol. Yeah, I know. It's amazing, I've never seen FLBettaCouple not on.

 

LOL. well, had to get some sleep for the betta show today. I even was asleep before the end of the game.

 

LOL. well, had to get some sleep for the betta show today.   I even was asleep before the end of the game. 

Have fun at the show and be sure to tell us all about it. ;D Can you take your camera along to take photos of some of the gorgeous fish you will see?

 

LOL. well, had to get some sleep for the betta show today. I even was asleep before the end of the game.

Have fun at the show and be sure to tell us all about it. ;D Can you take your camera along to take photos of some of the gorgeous fish you will see?

Yes, I asked the event coordinator and she said it would be ok and i'd just need to get permission from owners to take photos of individual Bettas.

 

LOL. well, had to get some sleep for the betta show today.   I even was asleep before the end of the game. 

Have fun at the show and be sure to tell us all about it.  ;D  Can you take your camera along to take photos of some of the gorgeous fish you will see?

Yes, I asked the event coordinator and she said it would be ok and i'd just need to get permission from owners to take photos of individual Bettas.

fantastic!! ;D Cant wait for photos!
On another note... I went to my LFS for a scrapper and of course, had to check out the bettas. Wellllll... its like looking at a kennel full of puppies eyes on you. <sigh>. Soooo.. I came home with a new betta. I just couldnt help myself! lol. I will post photos when the charger has charged my batteries. He is a beautiful boy. ;D

 

fantastic!! ;D Cant wait for photos!
On another note... I went to my LFS for a scrapper and of course, had to check out the bettas. Wellllll... its like looking at a kennel full of puppies eyes on you. <sigh>. Soooo.. I came home with a new betta. I just couldnt help myself! lol. I will post photos when the charger has charged my batteries. He is a beautiful boy. ;D

lol.. you may want to join our "are we crazy" thread.. I know how you mean, I look at them and want to take them all home.. these 3 we got to find good homes for at the show - not even 24 hours and I know it'll be hard to give them up.

 

fantastic!!  ;D Cant wait for photos!
On another note... I went to my LFS for a scrapper and of course, had to check out the bettas. Wellllll... its like looking at a kennel full of puppies eyes on you. <sigh>. Soooo.. I came home with a new betta. I just couldnt help myself! lol.  I will post photos when the charger has charged my batteries. He is a beautiful boy.  ;D

lol.. you may want to join our "are we crazy" thread..   I know how you mean, I look at them and want to take them all home.. these 3 we got to find good homes for at the show - not even 24 hours and I know it'll be hard to give them up.

Good luck with the adoption.. that is a real nice thing you are doing for them! ;D the 'are we crazy' thread.. sounds like the place! .. That is exactly what I was saying as I walked down the aisle with the new betta. ARRRe YOU crazy??? my husband is going to kill meeeee. hahaha.. Well, I really was nervous to his reaction. But when he got home from work yesterday he said.. ok.. what new fish did you get? lol. He knows I can't go in that store without bringing home a fish or two. gawd....
But when he saw the new betta, he said. your right he is beautiful!
Have a great time at the show!!! ~ kate

 

fantastic!! ;D Cant wait for photos!
On another note... I went to my LFS for a scrapper and of course, had to check out the bettas. Wellllll... its like looking at a kennel full of puppies eyes on you. <sigh>. Soooo.. I came home with a new betta. I just couldnt help myself! lol. I will post photos when the charger has charged my batteries. He is a beautiful boy. ;D

lol.. you may want to join our "are we crazy" thread.. I know how you mean, I look at them and want to take them all home.. these 3 we got to find good homes for at the show - not even 24 hours and I know it'll be hard to give them up.

Good luck with the adoption.. that is a real nice thing you are doing for them! ;D the 'are we crazy' thread.. sounds like the place! .. That is exactly what I was saying as I walked down the aisle with the new betta. ARRRe YOU crazy??? my husband is going to kill meeeee. hahaha.. Well, I really was nervous to his reaction. But when he got home from work yesterday he said.. ok.. what new fish did you get? lol. He knows I can't go in that store without bringing home a fish or two. gawd....
But when he saw the new betta, he said. your right he is beautiful!
Have a great time at the show!!! ~ kate

LOL.. he's at the acceptance stage now.. so that means MORE BETTAS! thanks. we're excited to see what a show is like.

 

fantastic!!  ;D Cant wait for photos!
On another note... I went to my LFS for a scrapper and of course, had to check out the bettas. Wellllll... its like looking at a kennel full of puppies eyes on you. <sigh>. Soooo.. I came home with a new betta. I just couldnt help myself! lol.  I will post photos when the charger has charged my batteries. He is a beautiful boy.  ;D

lol.. you may want to join our "are we crazy" thread..   I know how you mean, I look at them and want to take them all home.. these 3 we got to find good homes for at the show - not even 24 hours and I know it'll be hard to give them up.

Good luck with the adoption..  that is a real nice thing you are doing for them!  ;D  the 'are we crazy' thread.. sounds like the place! .. That is exactly what I was saying as I walked down the aisle with the new betta. ARRRe YOU crazy??? my husband is going to kill meeeee. hahaha.. Well, I really was nervous to his reaction. But when he got home from work yesterday he said.. ok.. what new fish did you get? lol. He knows I can't go in that store without bringing home a fish or two. gawd....
  But when he saw the new betta, he said. your right he is beautiful! 
Have a great time at the show!!! ~ kate

LOL.. he's at the acceptance stage now.. so that means MORE BETTAS!    thanks. we're excited to see what a show is like.

LOL... Hes thrown up his hands and admits defeat!!! hahahah...

 

LOL... Hes thrown up his hands and admits defeat!!! hahahah...

Behold! The power of the Bettas!!! :

 

he he he. Half my posts to BettaCouple start with: Do you EVER sleep? The guys' a hero! (presuming it's not the better half of the BettaCouple on-line!)

 

Yesterday I was my LFS and saw some more black calico platys as well as some blue ones, I bought 1 blue calico in hopes she would mate with my black calico and have lots of baby calicos. She is very beautiful, I will try and have some pics asap.
Tom

 

he he he. Half my posts to BettaCouple start with: Do you EVER sleep? The guys' a hero! (presuming it's not the better half of the BettaCouple on-line!)

LOL, so what do you guys do for a living?

 

he he he. Half my posts to BettaCouple start with: Do you EVER sleep? The guys' a hero! (presuming it's not the better half of the BettaCouple on-line!)

LOL.. well Stacy's not a big computer fan so I do most of the posting, although a lot of times we'll talk about posts and what to reply. I don't sleep thanks to my vampire betta.

I do video production and stacy's a cake decorator.

 

Yesterday I was my LFS and saw some more black calico platys as well as some blue ones, I bought 1 blue calico in hopes she would mate with my black calico and have lots of baby calicos. She is very beautiful, I will try and have some pics asap.
Tom

Black calico platys? very cool.

 

No, blue calico platys.
Tom

 

No, blue calico platys.
Tom

I want some of THOSE too! so many platys.. I need a 55 gallon just for platys.

 

Oooooh, creative people!

 

Oh really? Now don't shoot me down, guys, but platies kind of leave me cold. Don't know why. It's a good job too, or I'd need an extension to my house to house all the fish I love! Right now, am more of a molly-pleco-betta girl. Would love to own a betta but not yet. Anyway, sorry to butt in.

 

Oooooh, creative people!

thanks. sometimes I think it'd be more fun to end up running a betta shop, but who knows what's down the road.

 

See I often day dream about a fish store, but I reckon there's a reason they're all so uncaring. I think it would simply not be cost-effective to care for the fish the way they should be cared for in a commercial environment.

 

Oh really? Now don't shoot me down, guys, but platies kind of leave me cold. Don't know why. It's a good job too, or I'd need an extension to my house to house all the fish I love! Right now, am more of a molly-pleco-betta girl. Would love to own a betta but not yet. Anyway, sorry to butt in.

lol.. platys are such funny little fish and the color/pattern variety is amazing. I wonder what a breeding with a blue calico and a blue mickey mouse platy would yield? maybe 2 or 3 pairings could yield blue calico mickey mouse platys to breed and establish lines of.

 

I think it would be possible to at least run a store in a more humane fashion.. say for instance, the betta 'cups'.. how about using beanie baby containers instead? you can still fit a number of bettas on a shelf, but at least they have a little room to move.. it wouldn't be an easy go, but it's doable I think.

 

I think so too. I think no matter what, you can be inventive and improve from the usual store practices. Buuuut, would you be picky about they new owners? Would you often refuse to sell them because you would just know they wouldn't take good care of them?

 

I know what you mean. I can see that some are really pretty and have the deepest haze of red, for example, but emotionally, they just don't really do it for me. I couldn't imagine getting very attached to one. Don't know why. Maybe childhood trauma? ;D

 

Now I know why, you purchased them NVG yourself.

 

What's an NVG? New vendor gill?

 

Night vision goggles .

 

Me no getty.

 

I think you need them too.Armadillo Read this poll. Fish more active during the day or at night...

 

Oooooh, creative people!

thanks. sometimes I think it'd be more fun to end up running a betta shop, but who knows what's down the road.

Yes creative people. You could run a betta shop out of your house, it would be the most economical way, get a custom built shallow tank with opaque dividers to house all your bettas together and use one heater and filter.

I think it would be possible to at least run a store in a more humane fashion.. say for instance, the betta 'cups'.. how about using beanie baby containers instead?  you can still fit a number of bettas on a shelf, but at least they have a little room to move.. it wouldn't be an easy go, but it's doable I think.

The best I say was male betta's in little betta barracks in regular tanks with other tanks. They actually only had one betta per tank and at least it was heated and filtered water.

I think so too. I think no matter what, you can be inventive and improve from the usual store practices. Buuuut, would you be picky about they new owners? Would you often refuse to sell them because you would just know they wouldn't take good care of them?

Sure why not refuse to sell, it's YOUR buisness. It might be better to go into the buisness with a partner so if it fails you won't be hit as bad but of course a main part if your buisness would work or not is LOCATION. It would be smart to open up a shop where there's some large fish clubs around and not too many other stores. It would be best not to open a strictly fish store either, you could specialize in it but you need at least dog and cat supplies. I've given it a lot of thought and that's my goal. Once I'm done with college either live with my parents for a time or get a small house/apartment, get a job, I'm thinking of being a teacher (nice hours, at least around here, and get summer off) save up for a pet store and go to a club and find a friend and open a shop with him/her or more than one person. If it's a success open another.

 

Am sure all fish store owners actually started loving fish, and then most kind of get blase'd about it, or when the thin margins start making themselves felt.

 

I'm trying to get my gf to think about this. I have more than a few ideas for the tank(s) necessary. Also, you can build them yourself very cheap, as long as you have the necessary tools.

And..selling isn't really an issue, since you can sell them on aquabid.

 

I think you need them too.Armadillo Read this poll. Fish more active during the day or at night...

Ooooo, and the coin finally drops! Only took 1 day + explanations! What poll? Do you have the link?

 

yea, it's one of those back burner ideas that we think about and plan here & there.. hopefully down the line, we'll have things go the way so that we can start a business with a realistic chance of making it.

 

I know what you mean. I can see that some are really pretty and have the deepest haze of red, for example, but emotionally, they just don't really do it for me. I couldn't imagine getting very attached to one. Don't know why. Maybe childhood trauma? ;D

I was sad to lose our gold twinbar Daisy, she was my favorite and I really liked to watch her.. but I don't feel as attached to them as Bettas - but the Bettas interact so much with us, I think that makes sense.

 

That's why I really want to read up on bettas and take the step. I get the feeling they have more of a relationship with their human.