Betta The Betta

Betta the Betta, obviously, was J. Tiff's BFFF (Best Fish Friend Forever) and is a Veil-tail pet-store variety Betta splendens or Siamese Fighting Fish. He was J. Tiff's first betta and is much loved by J. Tiff (because she loves fish). Although J. Tiff gave him lots of TLC (tender love & care) unfortunately, Betta has tail rot and ich (a betta disease. Well, we DON'T have ANOTHER place for a decent-size minimum-betta 2.5 gal tank. After all, DON'T blame my one-floor 600-square feet apartment!) so unfortunately he died on 2 September, 2015.

Betta is very energetic and flares at everything except me, J. Tiff and my belongings. He is very,very,veryveryevryveryvery smart because he knows how to keep still in photos and can JUMP sometimes. He enjoys chatting in Bubbletalk to the penseels and is a veryveryveryveryvery good companion.

Betta used to love the song It's Raining Tacos (go figure :p) and whenever I played it, he will swim to the front of his tank and stare, stare and stare, pressing his nose against the glass and staring at the moving colors, fascinated...HOW CUTE!!!!! And I remember, when it went to the part where it said, "Yum yum yummedi yum, it's like a dream", I could've SWORN his eyes got bigger and he seemed to move a bit and stare at the bottle of food next to him...COINCIDENCE OR WHAT? :D

I sure hope the tail rot will NOT kill him, and if it does I swear I will be silent for five minutes and eat VERY VERY VERY (or none at all) little portions of dinner. Oh and BTW he's 1 year and 4 months old, and his birthday is on the 27th of Febuary.

The penseels all looooove Betta, and he's even in one of superstar Katnip Hiwaver's albums,'Flare' (awesome name). When his tail was torn in half by an 'evil' filter, everyone kept silent for two hours while Darcy, a superstar country style singer who's known for her devotion to nature, tried to heal him with some meds from the LFS (local fish store).

P.S. I have learned a LOTTTTT about bettas from my favorite online person Faith of bettatalk.com. She explained really clearly in her website about caring for bettas and I have read every single one of her web pages (except the linking URLs--that was kinda boring 'cause I'M STICKING TO BETTAS HERE!). And I mean EVERY PAGE, even the "boring" (as some people would say) pages on betta anatomy and history, 'cause Faith made it so flipping funny LOL. If anyone could email her (as I CAN'T, because I can't send stuff to people my parents haven't seen with their own eyes) tell Faith I said Hi! From J. Tiff.