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This post is mostly curious how bettas from Thailand are sent, and who are concerned about the health of those bettas. As most of you know, when you buy a betta from Thailand the seller(s) sends them to a transhipper who imports them into the country and then reships them to the buyer. Well I received three bettas today. This isn't really going to show them at their greatest because I was using a camera phone, and the bettas come out of the bags stressed without all their color. It is to show how, in this case anyway, how healthy they are right out of the box.
Inside the cardboard box is what looks like a baby styrofoam ice chest, without the ice of course. Inside are the little bags water, air, and betta. No breather bags obviously because bettas need actual air in the bag. I tried taking pictures of the bettas in the bags, but I couldn't get those pictures to come out.
Picture of me drip acclimating one of the bettas. All you need is a piece of airline tubing with a knot to control the rate of drops. Bucket is to protect against jumpers.
Betta #1 - The pictures of these bettas were taken within the first minute upon release into the tank. Betta #1 started off swimming all around and hasn't stopped exploring the tank corner to corner, top to bottom since he was released, I think I gave the largest tank to the right boy.
Betta #2 - He's not as active and has spent most of the first two hours in the corner of the tank, but he is healthy, about once every five minutes he swims around and then returns to the corner.
Betta #3 - This is the girl, she is in the community tank, and the GBR's in the tank came up and took a look and then swam away. A good sign, if they were prone to attack her, one would think they would do so immediately, but we will wait and see and watch with vigilance. She is been swimming around the tank, but avoiding the other fish, this is to be expected.
As you see, these bettas appear to come out of their four day trip just as healthy and active as ones you brought straight from Petco. Actually more so because the Petco bettas have spent a long time in poor conditions, and the Thailand bettas are better stock. They all ate a small amount of food about an hour after being in the tank, I didn't try to give them much, I don't want to upset their little tummies after fasting for several days.
Once they are completely settled in and have all their color back, I will properly introduce them with better pictures. Already had a bit of a surprise. When I was looking at the auction pictures of Betta #1 I thought he was red, blue, and white, but he distinctively has lavender as well, mostly on the fringes of his fins, but maybe on his body as well, once he gets all his color, much more than appears on the listing.
Inside the cardboard box is what looks like a baby styrofoam ice chest, without the ice of course. Inside are the little bags water, air, and betta. No breather bags obviously because bettas need actual air in the bag. I tried taking pictures of the bettas in the bags, but I couldn't get those pictures to come out.
Picture of me drip acclimating one of the bettas. All you need is a piece of airline tubing with a knot to control the rate of drops. Bucket is to protect against jumpers.
Betta #1 - The pictures of these bettas were taken within the first minute upon release into the tank. Betta #1 started off swimming all around and hasn't stopped exploring the tank corner to corner, top to bottom since he was released, I think I gave the largest tank to the right boy.
Betta #2 - He's not as active and has spent most of the first two hours in the corner of the tank, but he is healthy, about once every five minutes he swims around and then returns to the corner.
Betta #3 - This is the girl, she is in the community tank, and the GBR's in the tank came up and took a look and then swam away. A good sign, if they were prone to attack her, one would think they would do so immediately, but we will wait and see and watch with vigilance. She is been swimming around the tank, but avoiding the other fish, this is to be expected.
As you see, these bettas appear to come out of their four day trip just as healthy and active as ones you brought straight from Petco. Actually more so because the Petco bettas have spent a long time in poor conditions, and the Thailand bettas are better stock. They all ate a small amount of food about an hour after being in the tank, I didn't try to give them much, I don't want to upset their little tummies after fasting for several days.
Once they are completely settled in and have all their color back, I will properly introduce them with better pictures. Already had a bit of a surprise. When I was looking at the auction pictures of Betta #1 I thought he was red, blue, and white, but he distinctively has lavender as well, mostly on the fringes of his fins, but maybe on his body as well, once he gets all his color, much more than appears on the listing.