He's So Cute!

[K.J.]

Last night I put the girl in the cup and put her in the tank again, stress stripes for about a minute, and then faint vertical bars... he started biting the cup away that she was in so I took her out after I found out my apple snail was eating my plant... Hmm! So anyway, I took her out and he started blowing bubbles and created a nest about the size of a penny, I had to turn the lights off and when I woke up, it had decreased. But now he's building it back up to penny size, now to quater size, and he's still going.

 

[K.J.]

Just checked, building it again.

 

[guppymommy]

Awe, how fun!

Go, little guy, go! Build that nest!

Just a little cheer for him.

 

[K.J.]

Now it's about the size of two quarters.... ------------------------------- long or so.

 

[Kame-San]

I love watching my males work on their bubble nests. One of my males is so self-conscious that if he sees me watching him, he stops working on it and swims away. It's so funny to watch them; I love it

 

[liz2]

my delta is the best nester ever he has a lovely thick one all the while. when I clean them out I try to put their nests back in or a bit of it anyway. A couple of them are hopeless they just have bubbles all over the top of the tank not stuck together just dotted about.

 

[K.J.]

It's now twice or three times the size of him; 3 or 4 quarters.

Yeah, he'll look at me kinda bug-eyed like he's telling me to mind my own buisness and continue building.
Fortunately he's in the ten gallon so I won't have to do a water change anytime soon.

 

[Kame-San]

Can he see a female? If he can, expect the next to be about half the surface are of the 10G The nest one of my boys built when he was in a divided 20G with some pretty girls (lol) was HUGE. Like, seriously, half the area of the 10G section he was in xD

 

[K.J.]

Yup, the girl is in the tank beside him 24/7. It's in a styrofoam cup though, so I don't know if he'll take it out of the cup.. but now I can't turn the bubbler on, lol.

 

[Kame-San]

My bettas never liked bubblers anyway, so don't worry

I never put styrofoam cups in my tanks anymore--my boys won't use them. You could probably take it out if you wanted, but leaving it in isn't bad either

 

[K.J.]

But it has live plants. Although it's just java fern & hornwort so I suppose I don't need to worry.