And I'm gonna call him Pudge.

I miss having a Betta Fish

I just bought a big tank for my desk and I'm going out shopping for all the supplies tomorrow

yayyyyy

that's just 1 fish?

So Oregon!

Mhms!

Just one betta fish

Uh, I mean 'so pretty', not sure why my phone would think Oregon...

LOL

HI PUDGE!

and my friend had a fish like that for a while... she rescued him off the street.... and seriously, off the street

......how

o.o

he was in a tied off plastic bag left out by some garbage cans for, like, a few hours.... so she just decided to take him home

Awwwww, that was so nice of her

What a douchey thing to do tho, leaving a fish randomly out like that

indeed

just don't ever try to mix them with goldfish... it doesn;t end well

Nah, he'll be on his own with maybe a snail or something. They're kinda mean fish.

they are... one of her friends put Chancey (the Betta) in his goldfish bowl while caring for him and clearing his tank... Chancey killed the goldfish.....

Oh

yeah, they don't get along well with others

really wants to get a snail or some shrimp but my betta is waaaaay too aggressive.

The really aggressive ones can rip the antennae off snails. So I'd suggest get the fish first, check his temperament (does he flare often, does he rip apart his food), then try the snail.

But yes get him he's so freaking pretty I love rosetails.

As he ages he may have some trouble swimming (hence the controversy with the breed) but I have friends with rosetails and they never had trouble with them biting their fins. So it just depends.

I had one like this once upon a time.

Brassclockwork: good to know!

this is like the drag queen of fishes

you needs one named moose! So you can say you have a moose!

I want one too, Mike keeps telling me no I used to have one and he was so cool. He knew the schedule and if you didn't feed him on time

He would follow you around in His bowl until you fed him lol

what a beauty! Love halfmoons I used to keep one quite happily in a 30 litre tank with a few guppies and a few tetras and a couple of little catfish and a couple of female Betta

they can happily co-exist with non-agressive species, just not with other males. He was very happy until someone unplugged the tank's filter and the ammonia spiked and killed everything. Broke my heart

His name was Pixel and he was a red/blue halfmoon like that one in the OP, he would hang out in his plant and rush/flare anything that came too close, but he never attacked the other fish.

I can't keep Bettas anymore, I get too sad if they die

I lost three in a year. It's heartbreaking when they go.

I've been plotting to surprise my youngest kiddo with one, I had them growing up and loved them and she's been begging for fish for over a year now, lol.

Also, YAY on the name!