My new Beta thinks he is an Eel

[Yoemen]

I have a midnight blue betta with blood red fins that I put in my 10 gallon yesterday. I have lots of river rocks on the bottom of one section making caves and holes and such. The main cave is just a flat piece of stone sitting on two other rocks with about 2 inches of clearance under it with other stones on top of it and such.

Well, my betta likes to swim up under it and just poke the first part of his head out of one of the opening in the rocks above. He just sits there for a bit watching me and looking just like a minature eel. It is fun to see him zipping in and out of those caves with his fins trailing behind. I am planning on getting some cory's and maybe something else to keep him company eventually.

 

[julianbc]

My girlfriends betta does the same. We have medium sized rocks for a substrate and he likes to burrow in them. When we first got his tank there was an undergravel filter in it, the kind w/ the hole in the center that the bubbles can come up through a tube if you want. We didnt have it plugged in and one day I couldnt find him, he just disapeared. I took apart the tank and he was under the undergravel filter bottom layer. Got him out a ok, jusst kinda weird.

 

[phanmc]

My betta thought he was a salmon for awhile and kept swimming "upstream" into the filter outlet in my Eclipse system.

 

[FreddytheFish]

I know a good psychiatrist... :shark:

 

[patoloco]

I have this corycat that likes to swim down the air bubbles column that is produce by a buried airstone.

You see him swimming fast at surface level just to reach the bubles and start his/her frantic swimming. The worst part is that I recently added 2 more cories, and are doing the same...

 

[Intermision]

I have this corycat that likes to swim down the air bubbles column that is produce by a buried airstone.

You see him swimming fast at surface level just to reach the bubles and start his/her frantic swimming. The worst part is that I recently added 2 more cories, and are doing the same...

ine do that to, it's fun to watch,