got my new fish

[roberthellen]

hello everyone

just to let you all know that i have got my first fish in the tank. I have got 6 neon tetras and 1 siamese fighter the neons are all the same but the fighter is diffrent it is the first one that i have ever seen like this the mane body of the fish is white the base of the caudal fin is purple a very deep purple and the rest of the fin is white to translusent this is the same for all the fins on the fish pelvic, dorsal, anal and pectoral there is also a very deep shade of purple around the gills of the fish I will post pics as soojn as i can i just thought that you would find this intresting.

i allso have a few questions i have hade the fish for 1 day now and when it came to feeding the siamese would not eat but the neons did very happaly?

there is one other thing that is that the siamese dose not swin around the tank when any one is about i just seams to hide from me?

it dose seem to come out of hideing when the lights are off and it thinks that no one is looking at it.?

i wonder if it is just geting settled in I hope so as it is the coolest looking fish that i have ever seen.?

can any one explane the colourisation of this fish to me?

thank you for your help inm this matter Rob.

pic comeing asap

 

[dwayne]

He sounds like a beauty, I can't wait to see the pictures!

What type of food are you feeding? Bettas will eat just about anything (at least all my bettas have all been piggies), but some are pickier than others and will only eat foods that are floating right near their mouths... since it's only been a day, I wouldn't worry, he's probably just getting used to his new home. Give him a couple more days and if he doesn't eat then be worried.

I've only kept one betta in a community tank, and he stayed in the same spot - top front right corner of the tank - all the time, once in a blue moon he'd swim around. Again, he's still getting used to his new home, I wouldn't worry too much!

Bettas come in a rainbow of colors. Some are prettier colored than others!! I can't wait to see yours!

~Tara

 

[roberthellen]

pics

here is one pic of my fighter sorry about the quality

and i am feeded flake food at the mo but will feed what ever needs to be feed to keep my fish happy lol

Rob

 

[MSmith]

Flake food is fine. I've heard some bettas don't like it, but all of mine have eaten it. However, it shouldn't be the only thing you feed your fish. It's better to have a variety. My bettas love freeze dried blood worms. I also feed betta pellets, freeze dried brine shrimp, freeze dried daphnia, and flakes. They get the pellets most often, but I occasionally offer the other foods. I imagine they also eat frozen and live foods, but I've never offered mine any. Sometimes my bettas won't eat for the first day or two while they settle in, so I wouldn't worry.

Melissa

 

[sdb]

My betta loves frozen blood worms, and his favorite pellets by far are Hikari Bio-Gold Betta Pellets. I also have tried freeze-dried grubs (no go) and flakes (he spits it out). I have other betta pellets, but he much prefers the Hikari, so I feed that daily, with the bloodworms every couple days. I also feed a frozen pea cooked and shelled and mashed up once a week, fasting first the day before. He loves his peas almost as much as the Hikari pellets, and the pea cleans out his system and helps keep any constipation at bay.

 

[Neo Sithlord]

I have a betta in a comuntiy tank (29 gallon my only tank but any ways). When I introduced him into the tank I only had afew neons and a week later replaced them (READ: most died 3 lived) with 2 white clouds. Any ways. At first he didn't eat anything I put in the tank no matter what I bought. Then I tried holding afew freeze dried blood worms between my pointer finger and thumb until he came to check them out just so I knew he was eating. I slowwly stopped doing that untill he got hungery enough to eat the flake food his tank mates were. In a tank my size the pellets don't work as he now goes after the flakes first and eats more then his share. If I add the pellets he just ignores them... well I think just doesn't see them.
The thing I noticed and also think I can explain is he was very timid at first. He hung out in his corner so to speak and rarely went down to far in the water. I had afew loose peices of my fake plants that floated in the surface and he just hung out there in the corner they got stuck in. After a while he started diving down to the bottom and moving more freely. For example he was swimming through my cave like fake drift wood and such but always returned back to his space to breath at the surface. I let him keep at it and removed the floaty bits after a time. Then I thinned out the fake plants some as everyone got comfortable in the tank. Now he's every where and has afew favorite spots that he can rest on near the surface where he can surface every so often without much of a swim. Pretty much the heater and on the tops of the taller plants.
Now as to why I think he stayed so timid at first. Most bettas are raised in what could best be described as canning jars. Well about that much space anyways (less than a pint or a liter). So when you take them and put them in anything larger they need to adjust to actually having free space to swim! Also since they have the ability to breath at the surface I think they just get used to using their gills less in the smaller spaces. Give him time I'm sure he'll come arround to his new larger space. I have to say he sounds like a nice looking betta to bad the picture you had doesn't seem to do him justice.
Hope I helped you some. Also I think the space can stress the betta the first few weeks so keep an eye out for illness and treat as you can. I had to treat my betta for ich with neons in the tank and the neons couldn't survive the full dose. The betta survived just fine but I did loose afew neons. Give him time I'm sure he'll be ok.
-Neo Sithlord