Both you bettas are beautiful!!!
May I suggest some silk plants for your tank to replace the ones you took out? I have some in my tank, and my betta King loved to sit on the big leaves before he died. He also swam through and around the leaves and flowers, and through the hole in the bottom of the teracotta pot (it's a big pot so the hole is pretty large. Bought it that way because I knew he'd try to go through).
Marley reminds me of King - same colouring.