Hi guys! Some of you might remember me posting about a tiny baby betta fish I got a while back. Thought it was a female as it was super tiny and didn't have much color or fanciness. I bought 'her' because 'she' was so sad-looking. Fast-forward quite a few months and 'she' is not a 'she'. He is a very large, healthy, energetic boy! He's a pretty cobalt blue mixed with turquoise. His name is still Paca, because it kind of stuck and it's rather generic-sounding anyway I think.

Anyway, he's grown so big that I didn't think the 1 gallon I had him in was near big enough anymore, so today I upgraded him to a 2.5 gallon and he is so happy lol. I also bought two golden snails to help with the algae (and they came with a super tiny snail of some other kind too, so his name is Bonus, lmao). Haven't named the other snails yet. Paca is absolutely fascinated with the snails though. It is so funny to watch. Once he got over the shock of being plopped into his new house, he started exploring and he kept booping them with his nose and swimming around them. So cute. You wouldn't expect a fish to have such personality, but Paca sure does.

Here's Paca swimming by his new tank buddy. The two Golden Snails. Crappy shot of Bonus the teeny snail, because my phone wouldn't focus.

Ooh, pretty betta.

Thank you. That picture doesn't do him justice though. When he's really happy, his fins flare so he looks much bigger, almost round in shape. His colors are brighter than the picture too, although his face is mostly black. I'm a proud fish mom, lol.

The Bonus snail is probably a golden.

Maybe...he's so tiny though, a completely different color, and the shell is pointier. Maybe I adopted a whole snail family though, lol.

Baby snails have no colour. We have baby snails in our tanks at work all the time.

Ooh, I'd be so happy to watch the little guy grow up. ^_^

We have this one customer who always buys the baby snails for his fish because the fish loves it. But the bigger baby snails we generally keep, but there's this one employee who likes to kill them. I can never do it because it's not cool seeing a blood cloud explode around a snail.

That employee ought not to work around living things, imo. Does your boss know they do that? I know it's "only a snail", but it's still a living thing and that is so not right!

Yes, my boss knows. My boss has told us all to kill the baby snails and to throw out bird eggs.