Well, it's been said that God loves a trier so He must really love me because I got another new Betta splendens today to replace the one that died accidentally the other week. For those of you unfamiliar with my saga, I had Betta #1 (Cuchulainn) for about four months - he was neon blue and died of a mysterious tumour; #2 (Finn) was a rescued fin-nipped rainbow coloured specimen but only lasted two days. I looked for six months before settling on #3 (Finn II), a teal half-moon variety and he died accidentally last week.

So today, on my way back from taking Matthew to his swimming lesson, I called into this garden centre that I've often visited but have never bought fish from to find a beautiful rainbow Betta that was very similar to Finn II. So I've taken a chance and brought him home and I'll post photos soon. As the name Finn hasn't brought much luck to my two previous fish and Cuchulainn was a bit of a mouthful, I've named this one Naoise (Nee-sha) after the mythical Celtic warrior. Fingers crossed that he will survive.

Oh I hope so Mary, look forward to seeing a pic too when he's settled :lol:

Yes, I figured I'd give him 24 hours at least before I started attacking him with the camera.

Good luck Mary, I hope he lives a long and Healthy life!

How did your betta 'accidentally' die Mary? I hope you have some good luck with this one

I found it dead at the bottom of the tank Fishfan near the rock decor. He was perfectly healthy without a mark on his body so I can only conclude that it must've knocked itself out on the decor.

Can fish do that? I never thought about things like that happening!

Oh they can. I read on another forum of a fish jumping, bashing its head off the lid of the tank and dying - a suicidal fish, I guess.

Someone I know... their fish dive bombed soooo fast it ½ buried itself in the sand. They had to rescue it, lol

God, it must have been a kamikaze fish!

And of course then there's the fish that leap out of tanks/fish nets as happened with one of my zebra loaches. It fell about three feet, went splat! onto the ground but survived and is still doing fine...

Well, I finally got a chance to take a few photos so here's Naoise.


This is a rear view showing his lovely multi-coloured finnage.


This one isn't great quality but shows the Betta checking out one of the shrimp.

Lovely looking fish Mary .

oh that's a nice loooking fish Mary, love the evil look he's giving that shrimp!

Thanks guys. He is a handsome devil, alright!

Diana wrote:

oh that's a nice loooking fish Mary, love the evil look he's giving that shrimp!

Well, it was hilarious to watch him, Diana - he pushed his mouth thisclose to the shrimp, then suddenly lost his nerve and swam away, the big wuss! :lol: