About "saving" them from a cup... I don't LIKE to do this because if nobody bought them from cups... They wouldn't put them in cups.
Kinda like puppies in superpet. They are put in a 2x2 cage for at least a month of their life, forced to poop where they sleep, but people walk in and either go "aweeee, what a cute puppy" or feel sorry for it and buy it. That's exactly how we got our old dog (an 28 pound inbred shitzu with one brown eye, one blue eye, half deaf, and developed cateracts (cloudy eyes) by the time she was 6) My mom felt sorry for her, figured nobody would buy her and she'd be put down.
I think i may TRY the betta in my tank with gourami. My gourami has never showed ANY interest in any other fish. He tends to school with my clown loach, and he's buddies with my boesaumi rainbow (about the same size as him)
Since the male betta is smaller than him, i don't think he'll feel threatened, and i have alot of hiding spaces too.
I also have a 2.5 gallon quarentine tank that i can set up in a hurry, and the guys at big al's know me well, they'll take the fish back and give me 100% credit (minus tax)
SOrry for taking over this thread! Any final opinions?
(Does it seem like an acceptable risk?)