#Te Fiti Ammy

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Te Fiti Ammy dances across her tank

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Hey guys. So I took a little break from tumblr because of Hinabee. I wasn’t intending on getting another betta so soon but I made the mistake of going in a store. Meet Atlas and Te Fiti Ammy! I normally get females. I prefer females. But I saw this sad little dragonscale (who in the store looked so ugly but looks much more colorful and pretty already), with his one eye almost covered by scales and the other one starting to be, and my heart went out to him. He’s very nervous (understandably so), but I hope to have him out of the temporary 2.5g before his sight goes so he can acclimate to the new tank. I want to get a 5g on Black Friday when I get the lotls their 40b. (There’s a whole end of the year move for half my fish that’s going to happen.) So far he just likes to stretch his fins out, and cautiously explore. I expect he’ll be completely blind by Easter, if not sooner. @finsandattitude has given me great advice for caring for a blind betta thanks to their experience with their own blind betta Apollo. Te Fiti Ammy caught my eye because I’d never seen a metallic/possibly dragonscale female in the store before. And in the right light, she looked a LOT like @bettabbys’s Ammy. She has a green tint in person which is what prompted me to call her Te Fiti, but every time I saw her I called her “the one who looks like Ammy.” She wore me down and came home with me and I gave her the original name I had for her and Ammy’s name. She’s a zoomy little fish, but has not learned to take food from the tongs yet.

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Sometimes she’s silver. Sometimes she’s peach. But she always wears her Rosy Red Fins!

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The camera always refuses to focus on my silver girl

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Natural Light Series, No. 3. Te Fiti Ammy.

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Santa didn’t forget the gilldren! He changed their water, gave Aggra a big anubias, and left them blackworms for dinner!

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Te Fiti Ammy. This girl always looks pale peach in photos but I swear she is silver with a green sheen. I don’t get it.

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Te Fiti Ammy spam

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Apollo loves being surrounded by his fishy siblings.

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My girls

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Te Fiti Ammy... I swear every time I look at her, this girl is a different color

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My shiny glowy girl

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Grumpy face

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My babies are all gone. I know they’ll be well taken care of. I know they’ll be safe. I know they’ll be loved. But I am distraught. I didn’t want to rehome them. I am not incapable of caring for them. My father forced them out. My kuhlis, and Ferdinand, Atlas, Freida, Cleo, Te Fiti Ammy, Mesprit, Zoya, and my heart fish Honeybelle, I love you more than words can say. I love you I love you I love you. I love you. Please know that mama loves you so, so much, and that’s why she had to let you go. I love you.

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I love my tiny girl. I don’t think she’ll ever be as big as Aggra (my biggest female) but she’s smaller even than Te Fiti Ammy (my second smallest). She reminds me of Magikarp.

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All my tanks! In order, Ferdinand and Freida, Keiko and Aggra, Atlas and Cleo, Magikarp and Te Fiti Ammy, the kuhli tank, and Poe and Queenie. The lotls also live next door to Bernie the hamster.