Pretty  And he looks to tiny. Glad to hear he is lively and eating.

He's a stunning fish! I love the colors on him

All fish get used to a certain feeding pattern, it's scientifically proven That even if it's dark in the room, the fish know for sure that now it's feeding time just by following their internal clock Quite amazing creatures!

hai hanna, that's a beautiful betta. I love betta, the color and the fins pattern, but i dont like to keep them since only one betta in tanks. If betta is a peacefull fish like goldfish..

i'm curious, If we put betta and goldfish in one tank, is it ok or bad for goldfish?

Andiy: It's mostly like Andrea said, but the thing about bettas is that they mainly attack fish with similar colors as they do, so I think that if you don't have a strongly red fish, they might be alright with eachother. But the biggest problem is the difference in their environmental needs, where the betta wants soft, acidic water, the goldfish prefers hard and alkaline water. In conclusion, it's liek Andrea said, it's not a good idea to keep them together.

Hanna: I guess they're busy! I've been a bit busy from time to time lately too

Hi everybody 
Andiy, I agree with Andrea and Nossie. Bettas are not compatible with Goldfish for the above mentioned reasons. But they can be kept in a community tank with other tropical fish like tetras and catfish. As you already read in my other posts, this weekend we'll get some Corys and Neon Tetras for him as companions.

Yes, Nossie everybody is busy from time to time, just hoping all is ok

Andrea, I didn't know that colour thing either. Isn't it amazing how we learn each day sth interesting on here

Thanks Mindemae so much
Missed you on here, have you been on holidays? Hope you had a gorgeous time 

This sounds good, so you had time to unwind and just enjoy things 

he is so pretty

UPDATE:

Barbarossa now comes to the front when I feed him and almost jumps at my fingers to get the granules as I seem to be too slow in feeding him, LOL

And while I feed him one granule after the other ( counting ) our tetras start a frenzy all together at the front too, waiting for their flakes to come down like snowflakes. And Cory and Dora joining them... it's a circus, haha 

cool

Hi everybody,
as you sure noticed, my activity during the last 3-4 days wasn't that "high" on this forum.
I already mentioned in another post, that I had the biggest fright in my fishlife a few days ago with Barbarossa, I just managed to save his life.

I cannot imagine what happened... because all was just perfect in his tank, everybody seemed to be happy.
One morning, well, 3 days ago, getting ready for work I looked into the tanks to say "goodbye" to the fishies as I do it every morning... and I seen Yoyo nipping at Barbarossas beautiful long tail... which wasn't beautiful anymore and poor Barbie didn't defend himself, he let everything happen floating in a 45 degree angle. I screemed, Brian came running and only had a glance at him, we netted the new platies out of the quarantine tank, really "chucked" them into the big tank and I could fish Barbarossa out with my hand to put the poor thing into that other tank.
He was pale, not moving but breathing. I put Melafix in his water, we got Bettafix asap to treat. He didn't eat, spat his pellets out.
Aparently the quick move saved him, he was still shocked in the evening he only ate 2 bloodworms which I handfed him. At least it was some improvement. Next morning he ate 1 pellet and a few bloodworms, started to swim a bit. I luckily had my RDO that day, so we went to buy some more plants and a planted driftwood ( like he had in the other tank ) to make his new home familiar to him. We also bought some live blackworms and I handfed him again and spent quite some time next to him, talking to him too.

I am happy he recovers pretty quick now, he eats much better again, his blue vibrant colour is back, but his finns will need some time to grow, I think a few weeks. He will stay in this tank, we will get him some small and peaceful company soon, as he never was alone.

Geez, it is incredible how attached one can get to a little fishie, hubby and me would have cried our eyes out if we would have lost him... or every other sweet fishie we've got.

Barbie ( Barbarossa ) is cheer leading again with his little pectoral finns 

Oh dear! That sounds terrible! But I'm glad to hearthat he's fine I wonder what might have happened to him :/

After brainstorming about what happened and why it happend I may have an explanation;

The evo before I fed bloodworms. Maybe one of them got caught in Barbarossas tail and Yoyo ate him and thought from now on that Barbies tail is edible....
Poor Barbarossa... imagining what he went through that night gived me such big pains.
Lucky I realized it before heading off to work... I think if I wouldn't have there wouldn't be a Barbarossa anymore.

Must maintain his new tank today, also got him 6 Rasboras, small and very very peaceful fishies and a Panda Cory.

Yes, he is, just fed him a couple of pellets before saying Good Nite to him and all the other fisheeees