A woman who’s spent 15 years raising beautiful betta fish shared a heartwarming story about her latest family member: Stevie, who she found as a dull and depressed white color in a pet shop cup of water.
Taking him home and nursing him back to health, he rewarded her by flushing an incredible electric blue.
Adriana recently ceased her Instagram activity; she had been posting for many years about the care and activity of raising half-a-dozen betta fish on a channel called @thebettaboys.
Before announcing the end to her channel’s activity, she shared one more viral video: the life story of Stevie, whose white coloration and frail fins indicated how poorly he was living inside what Adriana described as a “cup.”
“There is some kind of myth that a fish is the easiest pet to get a child. I actually got my first betta when I was 11, and I always feel some guilt for that because he didn’t thrive,” she says in a video narration from the Dodo.
Stevie, whom Adriana described as looking “a little goth” with black lips and rings around his eyes, was kept in a cup with no filtration or heating. After some weeks in a proper tank with new vegetation, objects, and good nutrition, the bone-colored Stevie began to get these orange spots, which were quickly overtaken by blue ones.
Like a Pokémon evolving, his long lace-like fins doubled in length and size, and the blue spots eventually expanded to cover his whole body.
“Even though he’s changed blue, he still has his signature moustache,” she said.
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Betta fish are native to Southeast Asia and are prized aquarium species for their long fins and varied colors.
The Betta Boys, who Adriana raised with love and care for 15 years, were black, red, shades of blue, orange, and white, with no two looking even remotely the same.
She says the fish a really smart, and enjoy so much when she changed the vegetation or objects in their aquariums.
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