Hello all! 

Wow! I am really surprised by how long I forgot to post anything on my website! Time really flies when you're having fun. I'm so excited and happy to be done with my credential program at San Francisco State University, and further, I am proud to announce that I will be joining my dream high school this Fall! (Teaching Biology and, of all things, MARINE Biology!)

I have been posting (somewhat) regularly on my YouTube channel Inglorious Bettas. I encourage all of you that look here for updates to subscribe to my channel there, so you can get instant notifications whenever I post. I find it ironic that although my initial efforts were focused on my website with YouTube as a supplemental video platform, my online presence has now shifted primarily over to my YouTube channel with my website as a permanent and handy reference!

I will endeavor to try and remember to write blog posts when I post videos. Even though It is much easier to just hop onto YouTube and livestream on a whim, or to upload a video and post it on FaceBook, there is great value in organizing my thoughts via a blog post (and I can also include more "back story" and pictures over here!)

I have a TON of footage that I haven't edited yet (some from quite a long time ago >.< ) that got put on the back burner with the rush of finishing my credential program, finishing up student teaching, going to the American Killifish Association Convention and judging the California Betta Society show, and then starting my summer research program at Sacramento State! I will be editing and posting footage soon. Have a Betta Day!

Phew! End of the challenge. I had to stop a couple of days early because I just had so much going on in the rest of my life that I had to stop. It was a wonderful month sharing my fish adventures with everyone! I may have to try doing it again one of these days!

I decided that for the month of February (*cough* notice it is the shortest month *cough*) I want to challenge myself to do a daily vlog challenge! I also threw the gauntlet down to my fellow fish YouTubers :D We will see how many of us get to making content on the daily! I mainly did this because I wanted to keep myself accountable and make sure that I properly record the explosive growth of all my fry this month!

​Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel at Inglorious Bettas so that you won't miss an update on the Daily Vlog Challenge playlist!

Hello everyone! Wow, I can't believe I missed a month! I think I've only done that twice in the past two years.

Moving an entire fish room is a crazy endeavor and I was so blessed to have my AMAZING friends to help out! And a special thank you to my wonderful boyfriend, who let me fill his apartment with tons of living things. The fish room is a constant work in progress, but working on it little by little in between my summer job and now the Fall semester of my credential classes has been very rewarding. I LOVE my new little fish room (technically half of it is my boyfriend's computer room as well!) and it's turned into my little haven to get away from the world.

​Cheers and I hope you enjoy! I'll be making a new fish room tour very soon :) 

I have big news guys! I'M MOVING!!!! D: Ahhh!!!!

I'm really excited to be moving in with my boyfriend! Stay tuned for updates on my new fish room! Unfortunately it won't have nearly as much light, so my carnivorous plants will have to find a new place to stay (going to try the living room). However, there is enough room in the new apartment for me to get a large rack system, so I can play around with figuring out how to work with a giant air pump, LED light system, and um...just a couple...more...tanks...if...they...fit... :D I will also learn what the agony of not having a big wash basin right next to my room will feel like hahahaha. I'll make it work though ;)

​Have a betta day!!!

I'm SO excited to give a talk at the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society on Tuesday,  January 12! Kathy Olson has been an amazing contact for the society and I feel so well taken cared of. I am really looking forward to meeting the society members. I will be giving a introductory talk on Bettas ("The Wonderful World of Bettas") and will be covering everything from general husbandry, the local and international organizations and standards for the shows, and my experience with rubra and burdigala. I'm going with the shotgun approach and hoping that it's not too much info!

Exciting news!! The September/October issue of AMAZONAS is going to be a special on bettas!! I cannot wait to get my hands on this issue :) Here is the AMAZONAS preview.

Here also is a video special on Betta macrostoma. I WILL have this species one day!!!

Check out the convention show report in the show reports section! We also have the hashtag #IBCConvention on both Facebook and Twitter!

Come join us on Saturday, May 23rd for the IBC International Show hosted by California Betta Society at the Embassy Suites in Santa Clara - Silicon Valley! If you're in the area, we would love to see you, and if not, we would love to see your fish in the show! For help sending your fish to the show, check out the How to send bettas to a show page.

- 8am-noon: Judging (judges and volunteers only)

- noon-2:30pm: Show room open to the public

- 4pm-6pm: Auction and Raffle (including the Breeder's Cup Fish!)

A video of each show fish* will be shown at the same time it's up for auction!! 
*as long as they’ll pose while filming ;D

Show info can be found at http://www.cbsbettas.org/shows.html

Come one, come all, to the first ever online betta show! Hosted by California Betta Society, this is a rare opportunity to receive feedback from judges all over the world! Please refer to the show information in the flyer, and remember to take the BEST video/pictures that you can. Videos or pictures that are blurry, hard to see, or have fish that are not flaring will be extremely difficult for judges to critique. Note: We will be using the IBC standard for this show, since CBS is an IBC-associated club, but this show is not affiliated with or sanctioned by the IBC.

For videos, please say you have videos in your email and send them to me via GoogleDrive (preferred!!), Box (second preferred!) or dropbox.

We hope to see your fish at the online show! I would love to see any bettas from my followers here :)