Letters of a Betta Addict

Well I have a bit of depressing news. After a long week I got home to my apartment to find that I lost two of my Bettas. Mama, one of my pet VT girls, and my remaining HM female, Darlin’. When I left I suspected that something was a bit off with her but I decided that it would be easier on her to leave her at home rather then submitting her to the stress of a car ride and a change in water to take her home to the farm with me. However with her loss I’m left with 1 of my original 8 HM’s. Not really a positive place to be.

And now I’m not sure what to do. Importing new stock would be the thing to do however until things settle down here again (and I’m gainfully employed) I don’t have the time, or cash to do so. So as it stands I have Bran, who is turning out to be my champion. Now the way I see it there are a couple of options available to me. First obviously there is going to be a delay in any spawn. Mid June now at the earliest I suspect. I’ll put some feelers out to see if there are any BBC members with stock available. If not I think I’ll take a “holiday” and check around the local stores here and see what they have for females. I might be able to find a suitable VT female and while it will hurt a bit I should be able to get the HM’s back again hopefully without having done too much damage to the HM form.

I’m not out yet but the innings are counting down…

Sincrely,

A Betta Addict

Well due to weather conditions and current un-employment my spawning plans have been pushed back a little bit. Dad is over run with Mud at home some I went home on Wednesday to help. I’m back in the city today to do water changes and check the fish then I’m gone again till Thursday.

Speaking of water changes there’s a few more then usual today. I hadn’t gotten around to taking apart various now empty tanks. The QT set-up has been dismantled, as has Draco’s tub home. Rose’s 3 gallon will be taken down as well (I may try to sell it on kijiji later), and the 10 gallon QT tank that I moved her to for easier medicating is coming down as well. While I’m at it I’m “organizing” a bunch of my fish stuff since I’ll be honest since the move it’s just been a mish-mash of things all over the place. Hopefully I’ll finish the tear-downs and the rest of the water changes shortly and can get to cleaning the rest of the apartment as well.

In other news there’s a BBC meeting tonight at 8pm that I’m definitely looking forward to. Hopefully there’s a good turn-out for it :).

Well I guess the break is over time now to get back to work,

A (wet) Betta Addict :p