BettaMomma
Fish Aficionado
So.
As I figured would probably happen, Cloey is the queen bee of the tank. In every aspect. She's just a bully. But, she isn't vicious - she just flares, and swims along side the smaller fishes just to tick them off. Then she loses interest and goes on to do something else. Well, in all of this she has pretty much claimed the entire top half of the tank as her own "hang out" turf.
This means she gets ALL the food that i put in. To this point, she has eaten 14 pellets since last night, and at one point she even had 3 in her mouth at once.
The only reason that Millie got a pellet is because Cloey spit one out and it fell to the bottom, right in front of Millie. Pearl also got a stray one, too, but that was also by accident.
How the heck do I go about getting everybody else food?
Oh, and Cloey is looking REEEEALLLLY fat. eek.
As I figured would probably happen, Cloey is the queen bee of the tank. In every aspect. She's just a bully. But, she isn't vicious - she just flares, and swims along side the smaller fishes just to tick them off. Then she loses interest and goes on to do something else. Well, in all of this she has pretty much claimed the entire top half of the tank as her own "hang out" turf.
This means she gets ALL the food that i put in. To this point, she has eaten 14 pellets since last night, and at one point she even had 3 in her mouth at once.
The only reason that Millie got a pellet is because Cloey spit one out and it fell to the bottom, right in front of Millie. Pearl also got a stray one, too, but that was also by accident.How the heck do I go about getting everybody else food?
Oh, and Cloey is looking REEEEALLLLY fat. eek.
Oh. GREEDY betta! Is there any way you could distract her while you feed the others?
) What I did before when one of my females was hogging all the grub was to scoop her up into the net, but obviously leave her sitting in the water, and she could still move around. I'd give her her food, and then feed the others normally. That way, they all got their grub. And she didn't actually seem bothered, really. In the end, she'd swim up to the net whenever I put it in the tank to catch her. She knew that she wouldn't get fed unless she was in the net! But they're all fine now! 
The poor little thing didn't eat when I first had her in with Cloey alone because she was terrified. Now she hides out along the side of the rock cave (on the OUTside of the rock cave) all by herself. The rest of the little gals swim all over tarnation in that tank, but she likes to be safely plastered up agains that rock cave..
