I'm always eager to go to work on Tuesdays to view the new shipment of fish. Yesterday's shipment was especially good.
First I saw the oscars. There were two beautiful white and black stripped guys. I've never wanted an oscar more than at that moment.
Second I saw a purely albino African cichlid. Even had the bright pink eyes, and purely snow-white body, not a speck of color on it. Very pretty.

Then I saw what made me go absolutely nuts about: A crowntail, my favorite type of betta. This is a Wal Mart, a store that gets the rejects from the breeding process. They must have slipped or something and accidently threw a crowntail into the shipment.

Needless to say, I hid the guy, called my boyfriend and told him to get his butt up here on my lunch. I spent my entire lunch period revolved around this little guy!
There goes my plan of buying nothing more, period, until next pay day.

He's actually pretty small, so I think he's less than 6 months old, and very pretty. I can watch him flare up all day. His caudal fin is especially pretty.
I'm guessing he's a marble coloration. Did I get that right?





(Please forgive the extreme HUGENESS of the pictures. This is a new computer and I have not installed Photoshop yet and was not able to crop or resize them.)

He is gorgeous. What are you going to name him? Plakats and crowntails are my favorite. I maybe wrong about his color, but I am thinking he is a pastel

Congratulations Nakita! I think that is a very pretty Betta indeed, no wonder you were drawn to him. I'm not sure what the colouration is - but it's certainly very nice! Good luck with him!

I would say pastel marble because of the red on his tail. Looks like he has BF too.

Congrats on your

Wow Nakita! Absolutely beautiful! I wish I could find a crowntail here...

Lucky you!!! What a beautiful find,and one very lucky Betta.Congrats.

That betta is stunning thats for sure! I love his coloring and he has beautiful fins. What a wonderful find at the pet store.

Thanks for the compliments, everyone.
My department manager just laughed at me because I pretty much forced him over to show him and he got to see me freaking out about it. He suggested I hide it, or write "SOLD" on top, and I did hide it behind a bunch of others until my lunch could come around.
No way I was going to let some 6 year old kid buy him, put him in a 1-quart bowl with tap water, then ignore him. I've seen and heard this happen way too often. It's downright depressing what bettas go through.

Pastel was my second thought about what he could be, because he has light colorations, mainly baby-blue, but he will shine pinkish on his body with light reflections.
And butterfly too?!
Wow, and here I was just freaking out about his fin-type. Now he's got a pretty impressive color-type as well!
I think I completely lucked out.

He is currently unnamed. I wanted it to be something cool, but not over-the-top, and everything I can think of just seems so... blah. So far the name Cosmos sounds the best that I could come up with.
He's skittish around people, but downright aggressive when he sees other fish. He's currently in a tank next to Darth's, but I'm not too sure if he'll be there very long, as he flares so much and Darth actually seems to be getting nervous. My theory that Darth is a hippie is confirmed.
Till then I'll be putting some paper or something between them. He's definitely getting his own private tank, though. Even if he was less aggressive, I wouldn't want to risk anything damaging his beautiful fins!

Yes he is gorgous . yup a pastel crowntail. Not a butterfly though they look more like this

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