Beano Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Today, I bought a new fluoro bulb for my small tank with the built in light. I got it from BigW in September and it had served me well so far. But the light blew a few days ago, and when I put the new one in and tested it, the lid made this popping sound and a bunch of stinky plasticy electrical smoke came out of it! Anyway, since it had a 1 year warranty I took it back and they gave me a new one. The bonus was, when I bought the tank last year, it was the last one left, and it was missing the "in-lid" filter pump. Big W refused to ring another store and open another one for me, and I refused to bring it back to the shop for a refund then drive across the other side of town and get another one. So they gave me an internal power filter instead. Anyway, the cool thing was, my replacement tank today had the filter pump I needed. So anyway, since I was at Stafford, I decided to take a look in Aquarama, and low and behold a new shipment of betta had come out of quarantine and I came home with this guy: I also bought a 2ft tank and stand with many accessories from Leela today. Since both of my spawns are virtually the same size bar a few largish fry, I put them all in the new tank and suddenly my old broken/replaced 20L tank and the other 20L are available. So Bling and his girl are back in the spawn tank for a 2nd round and I've set up the 20L Big W replacement tank - I was originally going to put the girls in here, but since I only have 3 and one is tied up in a spawn tank, I couldn't really put the remaining two together. So the small tank has Bob the chewing copper I got from Leela last time I was out there. Here's a pic of the tank all planted and nice, Bob's in the top right corner: And here is the albino bristlenose I got from Leela today: A rather productive day! I smell like fish water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 I love him!! He is stunning. I love opaques Your tank looks awesome too. Just keep an eye on the purple waffle, it doesn't last long :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beano Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Darn I knew i shouldn't have got that purple one. I've had it before and it died quick, you'd think I would learn a lesson... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Pretty, but they are not true aquatic plants. Get some swords or anubis They won't die, ever :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady0421 Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 OMG I LOVE HIM!!! I was planning to go there today too (well, it's past 12am, so literately speaking... planned to go there yesterday) but it was too far from where I live and the auction is down the coast. I love that color... wish I can find a CT like that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najrick Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Wow what a find. Its not often you find such a clean opaques colour. He's beautiful. The bristlenose is a bit of a cutie as well. Najina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splendidbetta Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Nice opaque I think someone was after an opaque ct m a while ago - marc? Were there any more where you got him from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beano Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 There were some more of them, but now I truly know the meaning of topline irregularities - one of them had a HUGE dent on the back of it. The others just looked raggedly on the scales. This ones not that perfect, plus the camera flash is making him look superwhite, he's really not that white. Plus he has some black on one ray tip, so he's probably a marble. They also had this yellow bodied blue/green finned double tail (is that mustard gas?) which look really nice, couldn't get him to flare but he had a really long dorsal and it was as far up the back of the fish as the anal fin was. He was $60 though and I didn't want him that badly. Maybe if he flared for me I would have got him. I don't really like double tails and if I did get him it would have been for the dorsal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 MG is what dark bodied bicolours are described as, so I'd say that the DT was something else. Sounds interesting. Robbie was trying to breed an ANZAC fish not long ago - he would have loved that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbies Betta Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 that sure is a nice opaque there and a massive tank for the lucky copper dude to I would've loved to have seen a fish with yellow body and blue/green fins, would'e been perfect to start an Anzac line like I wanted to :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beano Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 He's probably still there! Hrmmmm... maybe I should go tomorrow on my day off and get him and breed some babies for you... somehow I don't think it would quite work out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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