Funny...maybe vain Betta!

[PJGirl112]

Let me just say that I have always felt really sorry for those bettas at the pet store stuck in those 4" containers for God knows how long...I wonder if they are even really fed while at the LFS??? AND this weekend I just overheard an employee tell a young couple that a male and female can co-exist peacefully together...yikes!

My new male constantly stares at his own reflection on the darker side of the tank and is flaring at himself! Has even really noticed yet that he has tankmates! LOL While I love the display should he stay puffed up all the time??? I am assuming that he will calm down in a few more days??? OR he could think he's the Fabio of the fish world...flexing those fins in front of the mirror...

Does anyone know if these fish have even been in bigger tanks when they are being raised? I am wondering if he just doesn't know about being in a tank yet??

 

[Swimfins]

As far as I've read (on the net), the little fry at fish farms, are separated and sexed as soon as possible. Stores, such as walmart, receive them already in little plastic holding cups which is done at the fish farms for mass distribution.
My lfs recieves them in boxes. Each fish is bagged and packed inside a large box together. The fish are expedited from fish farms in the US or Thailand, usualy overnight shipping.
At the store, they recieve a box of 50 or so bettas and proceed to put them into paper coffee cups and small glass bowls to display for sale in a large heated display case.
After this quarantine, some are put into tanks of small fish, like tetras for display until sold. Females are not all that common and when I see them they are usually pricier than the males.......dunno why.
I saw a blue betta in with about a hundred cardinal tetras that was really pretty.
The bettas are fed hikari
'betta gold' every day until they are sold. (This is at my lfs, others might be different)


Oh ya, don't mind the flaring if its not excessive. My betta spends some time every morning flaring and chasing the pesky whiteclouds around. Until he gets bored with the game. Of course the little clouds can run circles around him. Bettas always want to be 'head fish' in the tank even to the point of flaring at that other guy in the mirror.

 

[SnakeIce]

last time I put a mirror up to my tank, my angelfish got spooked by his own reflection and my betta looked over the top of the mirror to look at me. He totally ignored his own reflection.

 

[Mocular]

I have kept male and female bettas together in my community tank before without much problem. its amazing to look at the size of the little packages the bettas come to the stores in i would say they are about a two inch square filled mostly with air and about two tablespoons of water.

 

[WinterWind]

I notice that my betta sometimes flares at his own reflection on the glass.

I sometimes put a mirror in front of the aquarium, and the betta kinda gets crazy at his own relfection! He just thinks that another betta is there and wants to defend his territory.

 

[jenny cookie]

I have a 10 gal that is seperated into 4, with a male betta in each one. They can see eachother through the dividers, and all the activity make them really fun to watch