Annoying Things Bettas Love To Do

[Jaded12]

1. Cluster around the end of the siphoning tube when you're trying to clean the fry tank.

2. Turn their backs to you every time you take a photograph.

3. Flare perfectly while you're looking the other way or when your camera jams.

4. Refuse to eat the food you paid top dollar for and that you know is good for them.

5. Refuse to eat brine shrimp once in a while just on principle, to remind you who's boss.

6. Give you dirty looks when you try to feed them a new food.

7. Hide in the front edge of the spawning aquarium where you can't see them.

8. Change from brilliantly beautiful in the store to flat and colorless when you get them home.

9. Decide to become celibate when you want them to spawn like crazy.

10. Decide they like the taste of betta eggs.

11. Ditto for betta fry.

12. Swim around excitedly, flare, and show off for you then turn listless and dull as soon as you invite someone over to look at them.

 

[Amunet]

Well.. not really annoying.. just worrying..

My bettas (well cept for afia since the heater isn't on her side) LOVE hanging out by the heater and it worrys me to death.
I've touched the tank heaters before and they get VERY hot.. so it about stops my heart every time I see Raj or Caine swimming behind and pausing behind their heaters.

 

[FBTgirl]

Not stand still for a picture so you spend an hour trying to get the perfect pic and then its not even perfect!

 

[girl4God81]

Ha, yep i just spent close to an hour trying to take pics of my 2 (girl and boy) flirting like crazy. She's got her vertical stripes and he's falring and going crazy like I've never seen him do and they are nose to nose in side by side aquariums. But as soon as I snap the picture, he's behind the plant, and she's turning so I get a back fin shot. Or she swims by and her face looks HUGE in the picture, but he's in the background looking like a black circle b/c he's flaring so much, but you can't SEE it b/c she's blocking him..rrr, yes I can relate!

Oh and another annoyance..

(as I have posted in another topic), he huffs and puffs like he's about to sink to the bottom and die, why? Because he sees Zoe and can't stand the excitement, so he stops and breathes for a second (at least I'm hoping that's it, he was fine right before)...

 

[FishRfine]

How about the fact that the males KILL eachother? I can't believe that u managed to forget that!

 

[dthoffsett]

Mine like to "check out" the gravel vac, when I'm trying to clean the tank. I've almost sucked them up several times, sometimes I even have to hold them off with one hand, and clean with the other.

 

[liz2]

Killing each other has been mentioned...if they didn't you could have a shoal of them in a tank stretching all along one wall and they would be breath taking
I hate it when they doze off or hide so well you peer frantically in the tank and then take the lid off and they swim up to you wiggling their butt as if it is a game!

 

[stang1]

Killing each other has been mentioned...if they didn't you could have a shoal of them in a tank stretching all along one wall and they would be breath taking
I hate it when they doze off or hide so well you peer frantically in the tank and then take the lid off and they swim up to you wiggling their butt as if it is a game!

Lost count the amount of times I've gone frantic looking for my boys only to finally pop their head out! I swear they do it on purpose.

 

[girl4God81]

They really do seem to *poof* into nothingness sometimes! I will sit there and stare all over my 2.5 gallon looking for blueberry fishkins, telling my husband "I promise he's NOT there!" and as soon as I take the lid off he's like "hey there!" and swims up like it's nothing. And he's a very bright blue, so he should be obvious....

 

[puppyduck]

Steve likes to swim through the filter outlet to the inside of the filter when Richie is sorting out sponges and things. You have to stick your finger out of the hole from the inside and wiggle it until he goes away. A few times he's swum in. We've all panicked like crazy and gone to grab the net and he's just swum out again and cleared off.

 

[1ncubu5]

My betta has an obsession with the back left corner, which has the outflow head pointed towards it so its the only part of the tank with current, but its strong current... he'll keep swimming at it repeatedly even though he knows he'll get thrusted to the bottom of the tank and get a scare lol

he's also got a habit of making giant bubble nests on the day i'm away to change the water, so i feel bad destroying his pride and joy

 

[mastergara]

MZ likes to hide in his 6.5gal tank where I cant see him. Since moving things around to give better hiding spots to the Otto Cats in the tank with him, they all have places to hide that I cant see any of them. Color me worried...
Caspian likes to build huge bubble nests on the top right side of his tank, as well as show off WAY to much at the front of the tank.
Pixie tends to give me funny looks when I pass by... Not quite sure how else to explain it.
Marge gets the horizontal stress stripe for seemingly no reason. I think she is just a bit high strung.
Buttercup has a sick fascination with the intake on his filter. We downgraded from a 5gal Whisper to a 3gal Filter, and his fins seem better as a result.
Spaz has a sick fascination with getting his fins damaged in (until recently) mysterious ways. I fear overmedicating him, so have given him a bit to recover from the most recent bit.
Phoenix has a bad habit of hopping into Spaz's side of the tank, and causing havoc. Near as we can tell, that is the reason for the recent fin-shred. These boys have been seperated, and I am setting up individual 5 gallon tanks for them both.