Gift For My Dad

  I've started my 3rd semester around 2 months ago and I'm back for a few days. This time I brought home a lil something for my dad. Something fishy. Literally. Say hello to Bill Junior or Junior for short.

Junior

  Spotted him whilst at a mall. The same shop that I bought Bill from. This guy however is platinum  white with just a bit of a rosy tinge on the tail. His two fins are also white with black veins running across it. Cost me quite a bit, RM50. Bill was RM35. Hes still an adolescent and though my dad really likes him, he hasn't the vivaciousness that good ol Bill had,though I guess he is a rather feisty lil tyke. When I brought him back home from uni, he tried to eat all my wild guppies. So we had to get him his own tank. 1.2 gallon is rather small but my dad being a busy guy, I guess he won't really have time to clean a huge tank anyway.To show you what Junior is really like,heres a video.

  Once again,sorry for the terrible video quality.I don't have a cam,just a Nokia C7.Can't complain.At least thats something eh?
  Anyway,the vid is just to show you how he shimmers in the light.I just hope he stays that color.Most Bettas tend to change colors a lil bit as they age,growing darker or speckled.
  I brought back Junior and my other Betta, Midget for the hols. I placed Midget in my 6+ gallon tank with a plastic divider to separate him from an older fighting fish. We had bought the older guy because my dad had wanted to breed a pure white fish.I didn't really like him because he seemed kind of soulless.Haha..by soulless I mean that I didn't really bond with the guy and he wasn't really white.Speckled a lil black.It may sound a lil silly but I only buy fish that I feel some attachment to or who react to me somehow or if they look as if they don't have any chance of getting bought.Feel bad for them,which is why I sometimes buy females.No one wants females especially since they are usually dull looking and not very beautiful.
  The older  fish somehow jumped or went under the plastic divider and the next morning I was horrified to see Midget and the old guy in the same section of the tank.Midget had his tail and fins in shreds.I feel really bad for him.I bought him and his sister because he was never gona get sold.The kind of fish that are at the dank bottom tanks,marked RM1.50 each.They had mistaken him for a female and frankly I thought so too until he started to blow bubble nests and show aggression towards other males.He didn't even look like a male.I thought his dark coloration was because Midget was female but I'm starting to think it's because he's actually a descendant of an F1 betta.The kind you find in the wild.I kept wild bettas years ago and I guess the level of aggression and markings he has is quite consistent to those of wild bettas.

Midget

  Thats Midget,a pic taken after the poor guy got roughed up and had his tail and fins bitten to shreds.I put him alone in the big tank and put the older fish in a big basin as punishment.I always treat my fish well and make sure they are treated equally but since the other fish nearly killed Midget,he can stay in a basin for a few days till I get back to uni.Poor Midget,he wouldn't eat at all today and hes traumatized.Hes even gone all pale.

  Thats the big bully that shredded Midget like a piece of paper. Grumpy old man. He'll die a lonely old fish if he keeps trying to kill everything in sight. I just hope Midget gets better soon. Maybe I can tempt him to eat with some worms or brine shrimp. Go Midget!