Damn you mixed-stock!

[x Fish x]

I remember why I got out of Bettas in the first place. The injuries. Damn, it's annoying, all the moving and wondering and hoping they don't up and eat each other or themselves.

I might have a second Plakat on my hands, though definately a female, or maybe a mutt male. The store I bought them at sells all sorts, all purebreds- pure Veil, pure HM, pure Crown, pure Double, pure Plakat. There is one mishmash medley that is- I supposed- the best of the culled fish, they call them Hybrids. I either have a female Plakat or one of these Hybrid males.

Augh.

Nightingale- the steel blue- took up Athens' role in the 10g. When I came home all the pretty tails were in tatters, except for Little Girl's, because she avoids trouble in the best way- blending into the gravel! I'm unsure if Nightingale is a male or a female, because one the other girls, who are opaque or pink-bodied, their oviposters are really apparent. Nightingale has a sort of grayish lumpy thing where and oviposter should be.

She's been moved into my old Betta Barracks until I can figure out what to do with her. Athens is settling into his dark corner and actually looked happy to see me, tomorrow he'll get something tasty to eat. I was thinking- instead of two Explorer II's- to get a cheap hexagonal alternative from my LPS. Lighted, undergravel filtered. Or, maybe I could get a 5g and split it for my Plakats/short-tailed boys.

Just because... I like updating.

 

[Sorrell]

Females of all the types (they are all still the same species) can be just as aggressive as the males. That's why female community tanks are so difficult to get going. It's a guess and check process and you should always have a backup plan for housing if you decide to go this route

edit- in the meantime, I'd add some salt and increase your water changes to compensate for the fin damge these girls received.

 

[ral]

I read somewhere that when females are jarred like males, they become pretty agreesive too.

 

[yeeviabetta]

Oh yes. Anything been jar will become aggressive.

 

[x Fish x]

Nightingale has escaped several times from her Barracks, and everytime she does the girls scatter and clamp up. When she's in they strut and wiggle. Xena played a good old game of Where Can I Fit? and put herself between the plastic and suction cup, and then wiggled out.

Nightingale might be moved into the computer room, but in a vase. We have some nice vases with wide lips, and the computer room is relatively warm and light during the day. Of course my dad doesn't like fish everywhere, so I need to find somewhere out-of-the-way to cache her. Hopefully, this will work. If not, she gets a vase on top of my bookshelf. Not a nice place to live.

I've heard of the difficulties with girl-communities, that's why I was always wary of them, but the three little white girls get along PERFECTLY. They swim together, eat together, chase the Pygmies together. Perfect little ladies. And then Nightingale gets out, and all hell breaks loose.

-Sigh-