New Addition

How very handsome he is, Trish - thanks for letting us see his pic. 

As for the food, another alternative to a plastic pipette is a small plastic spoon like the ones that come with cinema ice-cream tubs or even a kiwi scoop (like this http://www.aotearoa.co.nz/shop/new+gifts/Kiwi+scoop+Kiwi+scoops%3Fsku=Aotearoa_kiwiscoops.html) - unsure where I got hold of mine from but it's useful for feeding fish.

It's that long since I had Atisons pellets that I can't remember how big they are compared to Hikari betta pellets    My betta is older than yours (I've had him ~18 months) and he gets 5 Hikari pellets at lunchtime and 5 at dinner time. He is so well conditioned that when he sees us bringing our dirty plates back into the kitchen he sits on a leaf at the front of the tank and waits for his food.
With your betta being young/small, stick with the 6 pellets a day until he grows, then try increasing by one or two. But be careful, bettas are pigs and will stuff themselves to bursting point if you let them. They also quickly learn to beg for food, which you must resist - be stern with him

He's lovely. Such a cutie. 

I've used Indian almond leaves rather than the extract in the past. Some of my previous bettas suffered from tatty fin edges and these seemed to help. My current betta has not had these problems so I haven't used them with him. Using extract would work just as well, it wouldn't hurt to get some in and use it at a lower dose than they recommend as a preventative.

Amano shrimps should be fine, especially if you have a lot of hiding places for them. I've kept amanos with honey gouramis and even apistogrammas.

Not having had lemon tetras, I can't say from experience whether they would be OK with the gouramis - those long feeler fins could be too tempting. Other members should be able to comment on lemon tetras 

My goldfish had me completely wrapped round his fins - very difficult not to give into the temptation - and I do miss the interactive aspect in particular. You might be able to treat him in other ways besides food, though eg I've seen a sleeping hammock advertised for a betta.

Fish don't read books, or on-line shops. Bettas are supposed to like 'sleeping' on something flattish near the surface. Mine used to sleep on top of the small internal filter until I got so sick of having to stick it back onto the tank wall that I changed it for an air pump powered sponge filter. Now he either rests suspended on a stem of floating hornwort or underneath a piece of wood 

Mine sleeps on top of the internal filter.
I had to apologise to him last night. After I commented on how cute Trish's new betta is, I looked up to find my betta on the substrate at the closest end of the tank. Almost as if he'd seen the picture, and my comment, and was monitoring my computer activity. Oops. 

I've only had mine a few months. I went to MA one Saturday morning to get something, and got so distracted that I forgot what I had gone there for.
I feed him mainly on betta flakes (JBL Novo Betta) with occassional frozen or live bloodworms. He was in my 24L starter tank when I first got him. Since then he has upgraded to a nice 34L, 50cm wide tank, and has a small group of panda cory in with him. It is the tank next to the arm chair I normally sit in, so he is the one I can interact with, without even moving. I chat to him, telling him how handsome he is, and he waggles his fins and has a bit of a shimmy.
Same as you, good job I live on my own. 

I chat to him, telling him how handsome he is, and he waggles his fins and has a bit of a shimmy. Same as you, good job I live on my own. 

I don't live on my own but Mr FCMF became well-used to me having conversations with my goldfish in the past (at least it was two-sided as my goldfish interacted back by shimmying during pauses in the conversation), and is becoming accustomed to the monologues I have with the tropicals (who generally now come forward to the front of the tank and listen/stare but don't interact in the way goldfish, bettas and dwarf puffers do) - he came home from work one day and thought there were visitors but it was just me having an animated monologue with the fish in a failed attempt to get them to interact.

@Trish, it might be worth applying the same logic as I've done on a few occasions in the past eg if I've bought something at full price, then discovered it's at half price some time down the line, and feel a bit aggrieved (especially if I've never actually worn/used it yet), so I then decide to buy another one so that it lessens the sting a little to have two at an "in between" price. What you could do - and sorry if I'm encouraging you to spend more money - is to look out for a really good bargain, second-hand tank on Aquarist Classifieds, Gumtree or even Freegle, then you could have the bigger tank and convert the current one to a hospital tank.