Finally, A Pic

[Ltygress]

It has taken me a while to get a decent device for photos, plus one that could navigate this site and photobucket well enough, plus an internet connection, but I got it together now.

So here's an interesting pic of my aquamarine-colored female betta. She only looks blue here, but there is a beautiful light green sheen across her body:

The funny thing about the pic is what she's eating. I got some bait fish (these were actually baby bluegills) and smashed some for the shrimp to eat. They are more interested in the flake food, but this girl was totally happy eating the dead baby bluegill!

She's also the one who tore the heck out of the blueberry I dropped in for the shrimp.

She's also the one who used to hide a lot but bit me when I tried to help her by cutting bug guts in half so she could finish swallowing it.

And she doesn't hide anymore, either. But boy when she tries to get a piece of blueberry, bug guts, or dead bluegill, she looks FIERCESOME! She has no problem ripping off the piece she wants!

 

[Ch4rlie]

I have heard of fish going nuts over bug guts, spiders and flies compared to the usual fish foods.
 
Makes for interesting reading as well as seeing the behavioural change as it probably more likely mimics their natural behaviours as those bugs would be part of their staple diet in rivers and lakes etc.
 
Thanks for sharing

 

[NickAu]

 
I have heard of fish going nuts over bug guts, spiders and flies compared to the usual fish foods.

LOL Go nuts is a bit of an understatement with my betta, When I give her live bugs, A shark in a feeding frenzy comes to mind. She almost leaps out of the water smashing a small cricket.
 
Nice fishy Ltygress

 

[Ltygress]

LOL Go nuts is a bit of an understatement with my betta, When I give her live bugs, A shark in a feeding frenzy comes to mind. She almost leaps out of the water smashing a small cricket.

Yes, exactly! Mine was doing the "shark shake" with this dead bluegill. That's when they get a grip on a piece and their whole body jerks violently to rip that morsel off of the rest of the carcass.

 

[NickAu]

If you want to see something interesting get a small moth and break one of its wings off, then get the Bettas attention and drop the moth on the surface of the water, My betta goes into this stalking mode, You have to see it to believe it. 
 
And remember the more plants the merrier with a betta, I have Riccia fluitans  and Water Sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides) as floating plants and some duck weed my girl loves it.  The top of my tank is a tangled mess of plants, Its funny to watch my fish lounging on the riccia.

 

[Ltygress]

I have water sprite, azolla, green foxtail and rotala wallichii floating right now. Just please don't ask me to list all of the ones that are actually planted... Lol!

 

[NickAu]

Can you tell us what plants are planted?

 

[Ltygress]

I hate you... Lol!

Okay. Fine.

Val Natans
Hornwort
More Green Foxtail
Purple Cabomba
Red Cabomba
Tall Hairgrass
Microsword
Corkscrew Val
Java Fern
Blue Willow Hygro
Marble Queen Sword
Java Moss (tied to various objects)
Water Wisteria
Narrowleaf Anacharis
Bacopa Rotundifolia
And one single piece of Rotata Wallichii
Oh shoot, I forgot the Aponogeton Crispus

 

[Ch4rlie]

A nice selection of plants
 
Just being nosey here, what sized tank are all these plants in?
 
And some of these plants are nutrient hungry, especially the floating plants as well as some of these planted plants will need higher light than low tech et ups.
 
Would love to see a  FTS with all thse plants

 

[Ltygress]

Right now, a 37 gallon tank for most of them. The Java Fern, Azolla, Foxtail, and Hornwort was shared with my 5-gallon fry tank, and 10G betta breeder tanks (x2) and some were also put in a 10G dirt-substrate tank with no creatures.

But the majority still sits in a 37G tank. I did not expect them to arrive before my 55G plant-tank parts arrived, but they're here. They will actually be placed in my 100G discus/angelfish tank with tiny pieces in the 55G to grow and reproduce. Then ALL other tanks will eventually be stocked/restocked from that 55G.

And I can't wait for everything to get here because my guppies and mollies are chowing down on all of the purple Cabomba!