my red HM betta (bobo)

[Raie]

hi all, new to the forums so thought i'd post some photos of my betta set up. have posted it on other forums too so some people may have already seen it.

i got him from fishchicks and am very happy with him. he shares his 30cm cube with 20 odd red cherry shrimp. am not looking to breed him so have not bought a matching female for him.

[Neffy]

omg the shrimps they are so cute ! he doesnt try to eat them ? i love how they match each other XD the tank is sooo beautiful as well !

[Force Fed]

As I said in your intro thread, beautiful tank! that really does look awesome!!

[delyall]

Wow! Fantastic setup you have there :D

[Raie]

thanks all for the comments. he is a cute little guy with lots of personality (a first for me in terms of fish keeping, as much as i like scaping my tanks i have never previously grown an attachment to a fish)

omg the shrimps they are so cute ! he doesnt try to eat them ? i love how they match each other XD the tank is sooo beautiful as well !

yes the shrimp are incredibly cute! i have a tank for crystal red shrimp as well and they are extremely fun to watch (fight over food etc). and yes he TRIES (keyword here!) but never succeeds! he's too slow, dopey and big - his fins and tail is his enemy here.. he gets slowed down amongst the plants and even in the open the shrimp jump away REALLY fast, faster than he can open his mouth. now he sort of just looks at them swims up to them and swims away, as for the shrimp, they sometimes crawl on him to over take him cause he's in the shrimp's way.

[Force Fed]

LOL @ that pic!

I am inlove with your tank.

kinda want it!!!!

[Neffy]

haha the shrimp get a piggy back ride XD id love to see photos of that, the stare off is fantastic !

[Force Fed]

I should really stop clicking this thread, It's making me want a tank of Cherry or Fire Shrimp :D

[Raie]

lol thanks guys. shrimp are definitely very fun to watch, their little feet move so fast and it's really cute when they are cleaning/eating stuff.

here are some links to my CRS tank:

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2290/shrimpies02.jpg

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/9131/shrimpies01.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2945/shrimp02.jpg

[delyall]

Naww~ They so adorable and so tempting .. hmm

I really love your CRS tank setup! The 'tree' looks amazing :D

[Goody3714]

Very nice Tanks raie

Loved the pics some really nice tanks

the shrimp are really nice too :D

[tlc33]

Now that is a photo worthy of a caption contest! Just gorgeous and I should probably start..... Got to get girls to bed, but I'll be thinking of a good one.

Oh just quickly, how about... eh em.... Ya want to piece o' me????

[Raie]

lol captions are always fun. some reason the expression on bobo reminds me more of a bored look more like "psshh shrimps"

[delyall]

Or 'the never ending staring contest' :D

[Neffy]

lovely tank CRS are my fav shrimpies

[gulp]

The quality of the photos are just brilliant! The tank setups are out of this world. Well done. I am in awe

Look forward to more pics you may post

[thomasellaby]

how did you do the tree thingy in the shrimp tank it looks awesome.....

[Raie]

hey all, thanks for the lovely comments as usual.

the tree thing is pretty simple to do, i found a tiny piece of wood that would work as the trunk, then i just tied some artificial branches to it (stainless steel wire from bunnings) and then tied the moss to some plastic fly screen and hooked the wire through one point in the mesh to prevent it from falling off and floating around.

here's a picture from when i first put it together, you can see how much moss has grown out in a month or so

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1143/treev.jpg

[fishish]

Love your betta/shrimp faceoff pic, totally classic! I never seem to have my camera on me at such moments in life so good job By the looks of things you've probably heard that enough by now.... lol

[Force Fed]

what kind of wire is it? I've been told wire affects the water due to being bare metal/metalic